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

The fliers that come through the mail slot accumulate but go unread.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2024

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

Our stacks of Cosmopolitan were topped with an unread issue of Boy's Life or Sports Illustrated, and our decoupage projects were concealed beneath the sporting equipment we never asked for but always received.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris