How to Use uncollected in a Sentence

uncollected

adjective
  • In parts of the city, trash went uncollected for more than a month.
    — Anya Groner, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The pair went to the house, where Bass showed her the uncollected package and mail.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Trash covers the ground, the result of years of uncollected garbage.
    — Saeed Al-Batati and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
  • For weeks, where there should have been hope ahead, the stench of uncollected trash hung over city neighborhoods.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The roads are full of litter and potholes, with raw sewage and piles of uncollected garbage posing a health risk.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Dec. 2024
  • As of last week, nearly ten thousand tons of garbage sat uncollected on the streets—but only in half of the city.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Other tolls go uncollected because the state cannot match a license plate with an address.
    — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • Nametags laid out on the check-in table went uncollected, and seats at the dinner tables sat empty.
    — Cd Goette-Luciak, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Trash piling up in the streets goes uncollected, breeding swarms of flies and emitting a pungent stench.
    — Scott Smith, Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • City Hall says thousands of tons of waste remains uncollected after a two-week strike.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The next phase had drivers tag unacceptable bins and leave them uncollected.
    — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 5 May 2018
  • Rather, those expenses are paid out of the estate, and when the estate falls short, much of it simply goes uncollected.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • Accounts from the city suggest the true toll is much higher, with bodies lying uncollected.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The city estimates that means $9 million owed is still uncollected.
    — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • With labor unions opposed to the bill, uncollected trash has piled up in Paris and other cities while garbage workers strike.
    — Elaine Ganley, ajc, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But piles of uncollected garbage, a problem that has plagued the city for years, have recently drawn them into Rome’s streets.
    — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • His five collections and dozens of uncollected short stories also show a virtuoso at work and play.
    — Jane Ciabattari september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Swanson said common complaints about short-term rentals include noise, parking and trash left uncollected.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The letter said the bathrooms stink, the dining area fails legal standards and uncollected garbage lies rotting around bins.
    — Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Oftentimes, a root of the problem is having too much uncollected revenue.
    — Rohit Arora, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • More than half a trillion dollars of tax revenue goes uncollected each year, contributing to massive deficits.
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • One solely with the columns and diary pieces and another one with uncollected essays.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On the other side is a welter of docks, cranes, favelas, and apartment blocks, marked with more gang tags and festering with uncollected garbage.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • In the global south, however, uncollected waste was found as the dominant source of emissions.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Or will hospitals and doctors be on the hook for uncollected copays or deductibles, and then raise prices to compensate?
    — Julie Appleby, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • The tough-love resolve to give him only food and gas meant that a cellphone would be traded for drugs, or that takeout food already paid for would go uncollected.
    — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • In Paris, small groups of protesters played a game of cat and mouse with the police, knocking over trash cans and setting fire to uncollected garbage.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The bump in profits stems mostly from a decline in the amount of money banks set aside to cover potential uncollected loans and loan payments.
    — Cleveland Business Journal, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021
  • One study cited in the report found that as much as 77 percent of all restitution ordered goes uncollected.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • In Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, coffins were fashioned from cardboard boxes as bodies were left uncollected.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 4 July 2020

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