How to Use unbelted in a Sentence

unbelted

adjective
  • Over 800 people die each year in car crashes who were unbelted in the back seat.
    — Hope Yen and Tom Krisher, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
  • They could be worn with either spaghetti straps or a halter neck, belted or unbelted, and at any hem-length.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Even if one party was trying to move from one seat to another, why was the other unbelted?
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Nothing drives me more crazy than continuing to see the number of people killed unbelted.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The Yukon then hit the barrier and the unbelted motorist was partly thrown from the vehicle, the patrol said.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Under the law, a ticket may only be issued for the unbelted passenger if the driver is pulled over for another offense, such as speeding.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 13 July 2021
  • Those determined to stay unbelted can wait out the system or turn it off using the Settings feature on their car’s infotainment screen.
    — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The company said this incorrect deployment could happen when a three to six-year-old front passenger is unbelted and out of position.
    — PCMAG, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Since half of all the vehicle occupants that die in crashes are unbelted, anything that reminds people to be restrained has the potential to save lives.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Wind shears in the jet stream at cruising altitudes cause the turbulence that shifts and wobbles a plane − which can injure unbelted passengers and flight attendants.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • This can increase the risk of serious injury to the unbelted passenger and may also pose risks to other occupants in the vehicle.
    — Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Serbus, who had been unbelted, died at Redwood County Hospital.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The seat belt reminder rule is designed to get more people to buckle up — 25 percent of back-seat passengers go unbelted, a rate far higher than people sitting in the front.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Four of the 10 fatalities involved an unbelted driver or passenger.
    — Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The new law is subject to secondary enforcement, meaning police don’t pull over drivers solely because of an unbelted adult in the back seat, AAA said.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The seat belt sign was off on July 30 when service carts, flight attendants, and unbelted passengers were suddenly thrown toward the plane’s ceiling.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The four passengers in the capsule experienced 3 to 4 minutes of microgravity weightlessness, unbelted from their seats and staring out of the largest windows ever installed on a spacecraft.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2021
  • The Dangers of an Unbelted Backseat Passenger In a collision, an unbelted backseat passenger continues to move at the vehicle’s original speed.
    — Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026

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