Example Sentences

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He plants “love’s true kiss” on Angelina Jolie as the unrequiting subject of her storybook sorceress character’s affections in “Maleficent.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2017

By Act V, Helena's passion for her unrequiting snob has become an act of beatific willfulness and the stuff of gaslight melodrama.

From Time Magazine Archive

How loose me from too long commisery For those whom unrequiting Time has given To the altar of the aching world's unrest!

From Nirvana Days by Rice, Cale Young

Who give it to the unrequiting law Of your brute soullessness and heart unborn To aught than barter in your low bazaar— Though Beauty die for it from star to star.

From Nirvana Days by Rice, Cale Young

Ofttimes the unrequiting of human love makes the heart bitter.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)