Example Sentences

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The human lover and the love of a difficult God addressed together – in one final, beautiful breath of unrequitable longing: “I wish there was a treaty we could sign/ Between your love and mine.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016

But the curse came to some here and some there—the curse of an unrequitable passion.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir