unexpressed

Example Sentences

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It was just a trauma response to unexpressed emotions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

“For Black women there was a belief, probably unexpressed, that there was only room for one of us,” Davis recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 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

Wang Lung, watching her move steadily and slowly about the rooms on her big feet, watching secretly the stolid, square face, the unexpressed, half-fearful look of her eyes, made nothing of her.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck