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

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

How many unread text messages do you have?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

It's a movement that imagines itself to be intellectually heady, replete with allusions to ancient writers and philosophers that mostly go unread.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

She was completely without experience in the world, she was unread and, except for the one long trip from Ireland, untraveled.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck