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
No rehearsal or director, just the actor and the terror of an unread script.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025
There was a time when I would treat it like a social media app, clicking the mail icon on my phone, hoping for the excitement of an unread email.
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2024
The latest messages I’ve sent to his phone are still marked "unread".
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024
I felt embarrassed about the box of postcards that were all dead ends, read by Maggie and unread by Fred.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
