unexpressed

Example Sentences

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Rose has few friends, perhaps because she has few unexpressed thoughts—and those thoughts tend toward the long-winded and uncompromising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

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

Maybe he could be like TJ, turn on all the best parts of himself and leave the worst unexpressed.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 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