unexpressed

Example Sentences

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Rose has few friends, perhaps because she has few unexpressed thoughts—and those thoughts tend toward the long-winded and uncompromising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

“For Black women there was a belief, probably unexpressed, that there was only room for one of us,” Davis recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

These aren’t absences, not deaths, but they nevertheless carry the risk of leaving questions unanswered, love unexpressed and truths unsaid.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023

Perhaps personal resentments had accumulated, unexpressed but still powerful.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

That is the unexpressed quality in our quest, and we have never tried to put it into words.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright