unread
Example Sentences
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But after moments in front of the class that felt more like years, Kathy clumsily folded up her unread poem, stuffed it into her pocket, and ran home almost halfway through the rez.
From Literature
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I stare at the email, bold and unread in my inbox.
From Literature
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“All I want to do is make a whole pot of coffee, get the paper and a big stack of unread comic books, and sit on the porch.”
From Los Angeles Times
While editing helps with emails I do send, a bigger challenge remains: the 16,685 unread messages in my inbox.
One of Australia's biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email address at the Department of Communcations where they remained unread for over a day, parliament has heard.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.