How to Use unchallenged in a Sentence

unchallenged

adjective
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  • The gunman took an Uber to the school and walked in the open gate, unchallenged.
    — Megan O'Matz, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 June 2018
  • The claim went unchallenged by the show's host, Charles Payne.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 11 May 2018
  • The 2022 group looked to be on that pace, spending most of the last year in the nation’s top spot unchallenged.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The machine has held this seat unchallenged since 1962 and Li will break that grasp.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024
  • Thank you to the NYPD for your quick work and sending the message that this hate will not go unchallenged.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • In many points in the city, the cartel gunmen went unchallenged.
    — Ioan Grillo, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The intruder walked to the back of the plane and left unchallenged after a few minutes.
    — Robert Burns, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The shooter went unchallenged in the school for 77 minutes.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The app has existed unchallenged on the App Store for more than three years.
    — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 22 May 2021
  • The silence of the sperm whales went unchallenged until 1957.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But in the end, this group has remained stable and unchallenged.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Which is not to say that the audience is left unchallenged.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Byron led the final 58 laps and went unchallenged to the checkered flag.
    — Kelly Crandall, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The Tar Heels have been unchallenged for the most part through their first four games and received 23 of the 31 first-place votes submitted this week.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Brown ran unchallenged, winning his second term on the board with 100 percent of the vote.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In the 30th minute, unchallenged about 30 yards from D.C.'s net, Asad headed the ball back toward Ousted.
    — Steven Goff, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
  • And that’s the extreme rhetoric that has not only gone unchallenged, but has gotten more and more extreme as the years have gone on.
    — Haleema Shah, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
  • After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia took its spot on the council — a move that went unchallenged.
    — Peter Hasson, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Which is great, of course: No longer may bros in backward baseball caps roam the heartland unchallenged.
    — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • More than half of the 18 races for board seats went unchallenged in an election night that resulted in four new faces joining the board.
    — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The police and fire contracts, long unchallenged, would bankrupt the city within a few decades.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The Bronco is Ford's answer to the longtime unchallenged success of the Jeep Wrangler.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Bradbury, last year's first-round pick, is unchallenged but still needs to improve.
    — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Despite the high stakes, each side let a few errors go unchallenged when the voter’s intent was clear.
    — Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
  • It’s not like her mother to leave things alone, to let such blatant lies go unchallenged, but there is more good news to reveal.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Rushing four a lot was a mistake vs. a QB who loves unchallenged turkey shoots.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Klassen had 2 just by going to the front of the net unchallenged; his goals bookended Marcus Nguyen’s rebound goal.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The election itself was designed not to establish the true will of the people, but to allow Mr Lukashenko to rule unchallenged.
    — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Kevin McDermott was unchallenged as the Vikings’ long snapper over the past three seasons.
    — Chris Tomasson, Twin Cities, 10 June 2019
  • Former staffers who spoke to CNN expressed concern that claims will go unchallenged during the town halls.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024

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