unconsummated
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In Musk’s attitude toward “England,” we see all the signs of unconsummated romance.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Internet forums and Twitter are both rife today with cries of wasted time, unconsummated hype, and feeling intensely betrayed.
From Slate • Jul. 6, 2021
I was taken to see Octopussy in the summer of 1983 and that was it: an unconsummated love affair that continues to this day, despite Roger’s passing almost three years ago.
From The Guardian • May 8, 2020
Will young people find themselves having only unconsummated love affairs, as if they were suffering characters in a Henry James novel?
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2020
Conceding, however, this seeming concert of action to be merely fortuitous, what will the vice-president of the Board of Trade say to the long-laboured, but still unconsummated customs' union between France and Belgium?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
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