unready

How To Use unready In A Sentence

• About half of all prisoners coming to Grendon leave too early; most return to the system after only a few months in the assessment wing, because they are judged by staff to be unready for full-blown group psychotherapy.
• While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there.
• Athelstane's nickname was the Unready - not coward or lazy, but unready, and slow to act, even in the name of his Saxon heritage.
• `I'm ready," said Katrina, feeling distinctly unready, feeling distinctly unsure about the wisdom of what she was doing. FINAL RESORT
• Although his previous sailing experience was limited, his boat unready and the electronic gadgetry of his own design unfinished and untested, Crowhurst had managed to persuade everyone to regard him as a serious contender.
• However, to protect small electricity users, the government will retain full control over the power industry in areas deemed unready for open competition.
• The media was full of news of drugs, the fragging of officers and of unready forces around the world.
• she cursed her unready tongue
• We could have got married to ‘legitimise’ it but at 16, we were both very young and unready for bringing up a family.
• But I've noticed that the late night comedians have really started ratcheting up the criticism of him, and this notion of him being kind of dumb and unready is taking hold.