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"Unread" in a Sentence (19 examples)
An undeciphered dream is an unread letter.
You have six unread messages.
Sami had a lot of unread messages on Tumblr.
I left him unread after he wrote profanities to me.
Tom's bookcase is full of unread books.
Marcus put the book down unread.
When you send a message to a romantic interest, it's way worse to be left on read than to be left unread.
You have three unread messages.
His library is full of unread books.
In the end, the complete collection of world literature I had bought with the intention of reading someday became just a display on the bookcase, remaining mostly unread. What a waste.
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1700, Charles Hopkins, The Art of Love, (after Ovid’s Ars Amatoria), London: Joseph Wild, “The Muse,” p. 36, At first, perhaps, unread your Note’s return’d, Your Person slighted, and your Passion scorn’d.
‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.
The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.
In fortune’s love […] the bold and coward, The wise and fool, the artist and unread, The hard and soft seem all affined and kin: But, in the wind and tempest of her frown, Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
1796, Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Chapter 22, p. 111, The only child of two doating parents, she never had been taught the necessity of resignation—untutored, unread, unused to reflect, but knowing how to feel […]
1890, Frances Willard, Address before the Seventeenth Convention of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at Atlanta, Georgia, in William Jennings Bryan (editor), The World’s Famous Orations, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906, Volume 10, p. 162, […] only those unread in the biography of genius imagine themselves to be original.
That book was terrible! I wish I could unread it.
You will have fewer 'Unreads' staring at you from your Inbox, and will feel—and be—more productive.
I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.
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