unexpressed

Example Sentences

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It was just a trauma response to unexpressed emotions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

But the characters do, sharing a private language of family dysfunction and unexpressed anguish.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

These aren’t absences, not deaths, but they nevertheless carry the risk of leaving questions unanswered, love unexpressed and truths unsaid.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023

Perhaps personal resentments had accumulated, unexpressed but still powerful.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

As was customary in their nineteen years of marriage, he left the grits on his plate untouched, an unexpressed but articulate declaration, rooted in geography, that the society he married into had not assimilated him.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy