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
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 • Oct. 8, 2025
Since 1996, she has published books of poetry, short fiction, essays and graphic novels; she wrote the libretto for an opera; and she wrote a novel that will remain unread for nearly 100 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
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
