How to Use unassigned in a Sentence

unassigned

adjective
  • Seating is unassigned and first-come, first-served.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Seating is unassigned and first-come, first-served.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That crash came after the plane used an unassigned, too-short runway for takeoff.
    — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Officials found a cell phone taped to the inside wall of an unassigned locker.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The Tundra had an unassigned tag on it and was not registered, police said.
    — Natalie Weber, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Now, they are assigned in blocks of 1,000, but unassigned numbers still amass.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Even when a plan exists, digital accounts are often left unassigned.
    — Jamie Hopkins, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Also, if the one unassigned combination is drawn, the result is discarded and the balls are drawn again.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 22 June 2021
  • Schools are also growing their unassigned money in their general fund balances.
    — Anthony Hennen | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 June 2024
  • This constraint is also what led Southwest to the radical idea of unassigned seating.
    — Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • Burns and her best friend, who now writes young adult fiction under the name Jennifer Echols, would make up unassigned puppet shows for school.
    — Matt Wake, AL.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The space will include unassigned desks, permanent offices and a podcast and video production studio.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2021
  • If the same team's combination comes up more than once, or if the lone unassigned combination is drawn, the result is discarded and the balls are drawn again.
    — Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2023
  • Morrison said the near-depletion of the unassigned fund balance is cause for alarm — and warned that the city’s spending problem will follow it into next year.
    — Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • Any repayment would have come from the unassigned cash fund in the city budget that is earmarked for unanticipated expenses.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2017
  • Other blocks of unassigned addresses have been used by Media Land repeatedly over the past three years.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2019
  • In Chicago, the number of unassigned precincts varied by ward, with most only needing one or two final polling sites by the beginning of this week.
    — Kelli Smith, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2020
  • With this budget the amount of unassigned reserves drops below the threshold goal of the equivalent of two months of the county’s operating budget.
    — Charles T. Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Tribal Nations will get a chance to apply for the unassigned licenses; the remaining licenses will be auctioned off.
    — Klint Finley, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • One of the unnamed employees gave the example of a case involving a faculty member that remained unassigned on the director’s desk for about nine weeks.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The district used $6 million in an unassigned fund balance to keep the sports, music, and gifted and talented programs, plus school librarians.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024
  • San Diego County has one of the largest reserves among local governments in the country, with at least $700 million in unassigned spending.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • About 25% of employers are placing at least some employees in unassigned seating, and 52% of the rest plan to do so within three years, according to a recent survey.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 17 May 2018
  • Irrigation at unassigned addresses is allowed on Monday and Friday.
    — Gabriela Vidal, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To balance the budget, the city plans to take nearly $4 million from its unassigned fund balance — money that is available at the city’s discretion, according to the city’s finance department.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • After nearly 60 years of its unique and popular open-seating policy, Southwest Airlines flew its last flight with unassigned seats Monday night.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The Washington State Department of Health also said there are an additional 167 positive tests that are unassigned and haven’t been added to the total yet.
    — Ted O'Neil, Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Another year where millions of CyberTips go unassigned, uninvestigated, unanswered.
    — Maureen Flatley, Boston Herald, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Those findings leave city officials with less money in unassigned reserve funds that could be spent however the city needed, and with only weeks to finalize the next budget ahead of the June 30 deadline before the next fiscal year begins in July.
    — Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • The astronauts must be unassigned to other missions, available for flights (for example, by not being on parental leave or on a military assignment), not in a management position precluding their participation, and in the presence of skills relevant to the mission, among other things.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 June 2026

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