uncollected

Example Sentences

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Images of uncollected garbage rotting on Havana’s streets have been broadcast across the globe.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

"I cannot overstate the urgency of the situation we now face. We cannot execute budgets with uncollected funds, nor return funds we never received."

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

The BLS “carried forward” prices from September to stand in for the uncollected October values, economists at J.P.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

He took office in 1966 and left the city with piles of uncollected garbage and a fiscal mess.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

It has found me here on this island, in our little town, in a back alley where sleek boys smoke in a stairwell amidst the day’s uncollected refuse.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver