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

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

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

He had slept soundly, curled up on two seats, his book unread, using his overcoat as a blanket, pulled up to his chin.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri