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

But Garland quickly returns when Platt pairs two songs that grapple in different ways with the situation of unrequited love.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Released on Thursday, the collaboration yearns for unrequited love.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 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

While Theo moved on from her rejection of him, she has been suffering from her own unrequited love.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman