How to Use unrepentant in a Sentence

unrepentant

adjective
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  • In the video, she is seen holding the shoes while talking to a young man with a bike, who appears unrepentant.
    — Jessica Roy, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • By his own account, Steve Jones was an unrepentant thief in his youth.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
  • Despite their decades in South Korea, all of the men who spoke to the AP were unrepentant communists.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2018
  • Best for unrepentant heel strikers who want to jog, not slog.
    — Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In an interview with The Times in 2004, Mr. Humphries was unrepentant.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Then there’s the unrepentant super-wipers, a la miniature me.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
  • Iris took a seat on one of the wooden benches provided for the errant and unrepentant.
    — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
  • Those with vast wealth and unrepentant guile are simply better at gaming the rules.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • Some of it was the sheer allure of mischief-making, the unrepentant reprobate being more compelling than the nice guy.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Laura Marsh: Dahl himself had a lot of fun with Mr. Fox, the unrespectable and unrepentant thief.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The tweets were instantly condemned as racist, but the President, unrepentant, seemed to want to keep the fight going.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • Six years ago, Rich Benoit was an unrepentant petrol head who had just taken delivery of his dream ride.
    — Andrew Lawrence, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2020
  • My own cubby shelves were an unrepentant mess, prone to rejecting the tank tops and shorts that my mother had written my name in with Sharpie.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • These coyotes are roving the streets in packs, like unrepentant hoodlums looking for a mark.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Such is the unrepentant militancy of the right’s voter fraud witch hunt.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This man was like all the others before him: unrepentant, cold, heartless.
    — Jason Douglas Louie, The Root, 15 Apr. 2018
  • For her part, Truss struck a largely unrepentant tone in her farewell address Tuesday.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • All riotous color and ebullient brushwork, the piece is the artist at his most robust, an unrepentant claiming of space.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The infirm 66-year-old Hale died, unrepentant, in jail before serving out a 14-year sentence.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The problem is that Democrats and Rand Paul of Kentucky are painting her as an unrepentant torturer.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Trash cans made the story easy to understand, and defiant players and an unrepentant owner made the team easy to hate.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • And there were critics of Egregious Elon, the unrepentant troll who spent a substantial amount of his time goading online hordes.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Biden has been unrepentant about his decision to leave Afghanistan.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But the unrepentant prime minister told a febrile Parliament that the court had been wrong to intervene.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The judge said Arps had strong and unrepentant views about the Muslim community and had, in effect, committed a hate crime.
    — NBC News, 18 June 2019
  • Using the knife seems to be a way of honoring the life of another unrepentant knife nut, one whose writings on knifecraft shaped my own thoughts on the subject.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Roof, who is unrepentant, has since been sentenced to death and many of Collier’s fellow parishioners are still trying to forgive him.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
  • The story of 2016, if there was a story other than Donald Trump, was that vast numbers of the nation’s youth fell for a white-haired unrepentant socialist.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • Not surprisingly, Pelosi finds most of her subjects unrepentant and still convinced that the election was stolen from Trump.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The goal is to protect the public from unrepentant, violent criminals, but critics contend prosecutors have abused the law by targeting Black men.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023

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