Example Sentences

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The unsponsored elite runner had just won the biggest race of her career and earned $14,500, but her life and routine as an elementary school teacher and high school math tutor in Northern Virginia continued.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

He was unsponsored at first and it wasn’t until the halfway point of the season before Hendrick inked both a full-time sponsor and Larson to an extension through 2023.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2021

True, who had been anticipating running on Sunday as an unsponsored athlete, said Thursday that he had agreed to a new deal with Asics that would run through at least 2023.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

As of September 30, there were 1,344 unsponsored ADRs trading in the United States, according to money management firm Cambiar Investors, compared with 909 unsponsored ADRs traded in 2009.

From Reuters • Jan. 24, 2013

He becomes part of the tradition, a standard, a stick with which to beat the next original genius who dares to shove an unsponsored nose above water.

From Art by Bell, Clive