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

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

A BBC investigation discovered the inbox had not been checked, with 26 messages going unread.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

He’d read all the books at the school, but every week a new stack of unread magazines, books, and newspapers appeared in the library as though they were waiting for him.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins