How do you use Unready in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like unprepared or unripe, plus the exact meaning.
Unready in a sentence
Unready meaning
Not ready.
Synonyms of Unready
Using Unready
- The main meaning on this page is: Not ready.
- Useful related words include: flat-footed, unprepared, unripe, off your guard.
- In the example corpus, unready often appears in combinations such as: the unready, unready for, unready and.
Context around Unready
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unready
- In this selection, "unready" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, get, looked, edward, despite, stomachs and witnessed stand out and add context to how "unready" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a get unready with me and a people unready for it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unready" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unready
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Maui wildfires have exposed in dramatic fashion how unready we were. (12 words)
Additionally, some technologies are unready and untested for large-scale enterprise implementation. (12 words)
Elizabeth was receptive, but, like Edward, unready to agree to anything unless permitted by the Council. (16 words)
Athelred and the return of the Scandinavians (978–1016) The reign of King Æthelred the Unready witnessed the resumption of Viking raids on England, putting the country and its leadership under strains as severe as they were long sustained. (39 words)
They needed oxygen to breathe, an incubator to regulate their temperature, intravenous nutritional support and a nasal-gastric tube that dripped breast milk directly into their unready stomachs to sustain them in place of their lost umbilical cord. (38 words)
Hart, "Edward", p. 783; Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 3. When Eadmer wrote a life of Dunstan some decades later, he included an account of Edward's parentage obtained from Nicholas of Worcester. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
On Sept. 14, these three accidentally captured this universal sisterhood experience in a that started as a "Get Unready With Me" but ended up becoming a bang-cutting rescue mission for Camelia.
The Maui wildfires have exposed in dramatic fashion how unready we were.
But time and again, we seem to forget fire season as soon as it ends, and we’re unready for nature’s fury when it inevitably returns.
I was trying to nail the vocals on ‘Unready’ and it sits at the higher end of my comfortable register.
Still, it's a somewhat bipartisan result -- while 22% of Trump's supporters are unready at this time to accept the outcome as legitimate, so are 16% of Biden's.
Additionally, some technologies are unready and untested for large-scale enterprise implementation.
McCoy broke his leg last year and simply isn’t ready to play, while Haskins looked unready despite flashing promise during the preseason.
They needed oxygen to breathe, an incubator to regulate their temperature, intravenous nutritional support and a nasal-gastric tube that dripped breast milk directly into their unready stomachs to sustain them in place of their lost umbilical cord.
Athelred and the return of the Scandinavians (978–1016) The reign of King Æthelred the Unready witnessed the resumption of Viking raids on England, putting the country and its leadership under strains as severe as they were long sustained.
Chronicles of the Reign of Æthelred the Unready: An Edition and Translation of the Old English and Latin Annals.
Earlier in the same year he witnessed a charter of King Ethelred the Unready citation as Eaduuine dux.
Elizabeth was receptive, but, like Edward, unready to agree to anything unless permitted by the Council.
Hart, "Edward", p. 783; Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 2. Later sources of questionable reliability address the identity of Edward's mother.
Hart, "Edward", p. 783; Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 3. When Eadmer wrote a life of Dunstan some decades later, he included an account of Edward's parentage obtained from Nicholas of Worcester.
His nickname of the 'Unræd' or 'Unready' means ill-advised, indicating that contemporaries regarded those who sat in the witan as in part responsible for the failure of his reign.
In 1009 Wulfnoth was accused of unknown crimes at a muster of Æthelred the Unready 's fleet and fled with twenty ships; the ships sent to pursue him were destroyed in a storm.
In Buddhist teachings generally, too, there is caution about revealing information to people who may be unready for it.
It was not until 978 and the accession of Æthelred the Unready that the Danish threat resurfaced.
Kingston was the scene for the coronations of Æthelstan in 924 and of Æthelred the Unready in 978, and, according to later tradition, also of other 10th century Kings of England.
MacArthur felt the commission was a nuisance, and their mission a quixotic attempt to impose self-government on a people unready for it.
Common combinations with unready
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the unready 10×
- unready for 4×
- unready and 2×
- are unready 2×
- unready to 2×