How to Use unaccompanied in a Sentence

unaccompanied

adjective
  • All we've had from him is a lot of talk unaccompanied by any real effort to solve the problem.
  • Unaccompanied children are not allowed in the store.
  • He attended the party unaccompanied.
  • But that is not the case for thousands of unaccompanied minors.
    — Renata Brito, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The set marks his third trip to the uppermost area on the ranking unaccompanied.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Lunger has been ordered to stay away from unaccompanied minors.
    — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • So a lot of times people only see the one that pulls out or at our heart, and that is the unaccompanied kids and the family.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 8 May 2021
  • Any unaccompanied children under age 15 will be asked to leave the park.
    — Craig Webb, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
  • Rumors that unaccompanied minors were not being sent back to Reynosa had spread around the camp.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Next came an unaccompanied 8-year-old girl from Morocco, wide-eyed and afraid.
    — Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
  • Do the new fees for unaccompanied minors contradict the law?
    — Nicol Leon, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The girl was found unaccompanied near Prentice and Mathis streets.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The youngest passenger is a 3-year-old, and more than 40 are unaccompanied minors.
    — Barbara Surk and Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The main reason for the shortage was the reaction singers were having to hearing themselves unaccompanied by their choir mates.
    — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Why are unaccompanied kids, teens banned from Market Square during certain hours?
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • The unaccompanied minor change was made at least partially in response to a viral video that showed a group of teens tussling near a row of carnival games.
    — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The parents were shackled and sent to adult detention; the child was shipped to a federal shelter as an unaccompanied minor.
    — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • On his first unaccompanied journey, he is robbed by a man, and then meets the energetic 12-year-old Jola.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 July 2023
  • Schonbek got to visit the house six months later, unaccompanied, and Gins’s dirty laundry remained in the bedroom, her medicines on the kitchen counter.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The old-fashioned thinking is that the man should pay for an unaccompanied woman joining a couple for a meal, but this is 2026.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The striker streaked unaccompanied into the box, taking an unguarded shot to clinch the victory for the Union.
    — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • There was a chance that two unaccompanied children would not be admitted to the circus, but the powers who ruled the world decreed that the usher did not pay any attention to us.
    — The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Uganda has agreed to accept certain deportees who lack criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors.
    — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • What times are unaccompanied minors banned from Market Square in Pittsburgh?
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • Some of those cases involve domestic abuse survivors and unaccompanied minors, the complaint said.
    — Ben Wheeler april 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The fee is at least $5,000 to release an unaccompanied alien child to a sponsor who fails to appear in immigration court.
    — Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Aguilar was born in Guatemala and came to the United States as an unaccompanied minor in 2018.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Now unaccompanied kids are being treated like adults, despite laws and policies meant to give them extra consideration.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
  • In addition, Uber drivers are encouraged to cancel trips with unaccompanied minors who do not have a teen account.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Also new is an unaccompanied minor policy — anyone under the age of 18 must be chaperoned by an adult.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025

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