unrequited
Example Sentences
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This is something far more daffy and useless: The brouhaha over unrequited affections between Seattle Mariners at the World Baseball Classic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
Avril Lavigne lends her soaring vocals to the unrequited love song “You Broke Me Too.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
The 24-year-old, who is a counter-tenor at the Vienna State Opera, took the title with the song Wasted Love, an tempestuous electro-ballad about unrequited love.
From BBC • May 17, 2025
Some birds encapsulated different aspects of our humanity, so unrequited love with Alexa and Mikhail, or Jimmy who belongs in his own sitcom, or Cactus with her precarious journey.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025
For a long time we went everywhere together, but aside from that, my love was unrequited until Peter crossed my path.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
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