How to Use unhealed in a Sentence

unhealed

adjective
Definition of unhealednext
  • Who wants to see a play that yanks the scab from unhealed wounds?
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • For the women who were raped, the arrest opened an unhealed wound.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 23 June 2019
  • In the meantime, the wounds to the nation's psyche — and to the flesh and souls of Black Americans — remain unhealed.
    — Editorial Board Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • His failure to close with the title, though, caused a rupture that went unhealed for months.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2017
  • Meanwhile, Cassie says she was left with unhealed scars.
    — Njera Perkins, refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But when it was built, Americans were still dying in Vietnam, the war was a raw, unhealed wound, and some saw the stark chapel as a protest.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Three front teeth were missing, and the unhealed sockets suggested they were lost at the time of death or afterward.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • In the end we are left with a web of unhealed inferences, the lava of guilt and grief slowly covering both women.
    — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • The three mass killings shook France to its core in the mid-2010s and left unhealed wounds, turning the proceedings into moments of catharsis as much as fact-finding.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Sully’s old friends are still stumbling around in a reverie of fond memories and unhealed grief.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • But trillions of dollars have been spent, while the African–American wound remains unhealed.
    — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • It’s been a little more than two months since Alabama’s last football game and a few injuries remain unhealed.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The parasite used to kill a large proportion of newborn fawns, whose unhealed belly buttons were open wounds.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 May 2020
  • No Spanish writer has probed the unhealed wounds of the country’s history with more subtlety and rigour than Mr Cercas.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • For many, the question of how and whether to honor their faith was never fully settled, a wound left unhealed years after the Allies liberated the camps.
    — Washington Post, 9 June 2021
  • Some 40% of the individuals had both healed and unhealed injuries, suggesting that violence was part of the fabric of life at that time.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • How many of us are walking around with unhealed emotional wounds inflicted in junior high?
    — Shannon Hale, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • In the middle of this bid for connection is a beautifully raw account of the physical toll of unhealed trauma.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
  • If people with moral injury simply try to retrain their thoughts, they may be left unsatisfied and unhealed.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Those patients should bandage or cover any unhealed lesions, wear a well-fitting mask and avoid crowded settings.
    — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • When Sarah tries to whoosh it out of its makeshift garden enclosure one night, the creature bites her, creating the most obviously festering of the film’s many unhealed wounds.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Her radiance and self love is triggering to unhealed people.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Will's effervescent, charming girlfriend with an unhealed trauma in her not-so-distant past has been sucked into a cult.
    — refinery29.com, 6 July 2018
  • Triggers often direct your attention to unhealed wounds that need tending to.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Oct. 2022
  • In the last two weeks, those unhealed scars have erupted into a modern-day conflagration of trench warfare, drone strikes and artillery bombardments.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Lewiston deepens old wounds In Wells, the latest shooting has inflamed unhealed wounds for Simmons’ family.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Not being chosen by men also triggered that unhealed trauma.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The country’s history of inhumane medical experiments, such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study remains an unhealed wound, and the city’s worked to build confidence in the vaccine.
    — Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Her dramas are sites of living history, too, where personal stories of racism’s unhealed wounds mingle with dark tales thieved from the Brothers Grimm and 1940s Hollywood.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • An unhealed fracture below the jaw suggests the cat’s neck was broken either at or just after the time of death—possibly to keep the head upright during mummification.
    — Charlotte Hartley, Science | AAAS, 20 Aug. 2020

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