How to Use unclaimed in a Sentence

unclaimed

adjective
  • Or a big pile of unclaimed brassieres?
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Tap or click for the secret places to check for unclaimed funds.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The more trophies that go unclaimed, the more doubt creeps in.
    — Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Hundreds more stray and unclaimed dogs are found on the streets each year.
    — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Down the hall, in two rooms lined with bassinets, eight babies lay unclaimed.
    — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Two of those prizes remain unclaimed.
    — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Two of those prizes remain unclaimed.
    — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Two of those prizes remain unclaimed.
    — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Two of those prizes remain unclaimed.
    — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • One of those prizes remains unclaimed.
    — Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The plan was seemingly to get him through waivers unclaimed.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Some unclaimed bodies remain at the morgue for weeks, or months.
    — Mujib Mashal and Jawad Sukhanyar, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • There are plenty more big prizes still unclaimed, some in the millions.
    — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Last year, the amount of unclaimed prizes added up to $34 million.
    — Omar Abdel-Baqui, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Meanwhile, there are unclaimed funds in other states.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Last month, a man grabbed unclaimed clothes off a for-sale rack near the front door and took off down the sidewalk.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • Only the funds that were unclaimed by class members went into a trust fund.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • So don't leave this extra money unclaimed.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • Searching for the unclaimed property is free and can be done here.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 11 July 2019
  • Four of those eight tickets remain unclaimed.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
  • There may be a pot of gold waiting for you in our unclaimed property vault—claim it!
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Check the unclaimed property database for your state and get it back.
    — Jessica Roy Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • For months, his body had lain in the Hinds County morgue, unclaimed.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • To be unmapped was to be unclaimed — and to be mapped was to be already half-conquered.
    — Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Somehow those shares went unclaimed and were turned over to the state under her name years later.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2018
  • All four of them went unclaimed and cleared waivers, but Ramirez elected free agency.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The abundant unclaimed space is inviting to drifters and loners.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • That $39 million prize went unclaimed.
    — Cheryl Vari, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Dec. 2025
  • What happens to unclaimed prize money?
    — Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The piña continues to sit on the sidewalk, unclaimed.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026

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