unread
Example Sentences
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While editing helps with emails I do send, a bigger challenge remains: the 16,685 unread messages in my inbox.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026
No rehearsal or director, just the actor and the terror of an unread script.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025
The latest messages I’ve sent to his phone are still marked "unread".
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024
But when, several weeks later, I happened to see it next to her bed unread except for the first few pages, I was furious and suddenly wanted to cry.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
