unread
Example Sentences
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Nearly all of Irving’s once-famous satires are unread today, though “Rip Van Winkle” lives on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
Mackesy describes how during lockdown he received "terrifying numbers of emails" through his website, remembering one occasion when his phone said that he had 86,000 unread emails.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
She does not want to deal with them, but she cannot bring herself to toss them away unread.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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