How to Use unconnected in a Sentence

unconnected

adjective
  • He’ll be assigned to an unconnected case, but just on the books.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024
  • What exists now is split between two skinny and unconnected slices that opened this year.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • Prospects for unconnected Nepalis, in the meantime, got worse.
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The lack of distraction that comes with being unconnected to the depths of the internet.
    — cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
  • Two others are thought to have entered the cave earlier, unconnected to the five, and are still missing.
    — Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • This aging Colón has emerged as a cult hero, beloved by fans unconnected to whichever team happens to employ him.
    — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 4 June 2018
  • With his wires, Vyazovskiy could watch a bunch of unconnected local events build into a global one.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
  • In the meantime, cyclists describe a patchwork of short, unconnected bike lanes.
    — Julie Bykowicz, WSJ, 21 July 2022
  • Businesses that refuse to engage with the unconnected may also put themselves at risk.
    — Stephanie Tumba, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But the databases were unconnected.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding cities—remain unconnected to sewage treatment plants.
    — Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic, 15 Aug. 2016
  • Since at least 2004, there have never been three women killed in the city in unconnected murders over such a short span.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, baltimoresun.com, 15 June 2018
  • The series sees Mickey and friends through brisk, unconnected nine-minute adventures that can be viewed in any order.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Atoms in the detector can be thought of as free particles, discrete and unconnected to one another.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 9 June 2020
  • Alvarez’s take is being kept deep inside the studio’s chest, but sources describe it as unconnected to the previous movies.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Contee said firearms in the District tend to get passed from one person to another, and are used in unconnected crimes throughout the city.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Paparesta told reporters that the two injuries were unconnected.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2026
  • As mentioned in the episode, Wheeler's emotional distress and his death seem unconnected to each other.
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2020
  • These things should have been unconnected, but that summer a photo of Chris Christie sitting on a beach was published as part of a news story.
    — Chrissy Stockton, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 June 2018
  • But experts argue that the slowdown has been driven by a series of factors unconnected to the White House.
    — Erin Mershon, STAT, 4 May 2018
  • The ranges are unconnected and rise from the desert floor for thousands of feet, supporting an incredible range of plant and animal life, biomes from arid to alpine.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • Burke said a fire alarm earlier in the day at the State House was likely unconnected to the fire in the basement, given the time between.
    — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • The shots missed the man and hit the 9-month-old, who was in a vehicle nearby that was unconnected to the robbery, according to the sheriff's office.
    — Alyson Ward, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
  • So far, the beach below the tracks has been armored with 1,118 feet of seawalls in several unconnected segments.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Even so, Africa and South Asia are among the last remaining places on earth with large numbers of people unconnected to the Net.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
  • Then there's the Mystery Shack, where water runs from faucets unconnected to pipes and visitors tilt this way and that making their way across the old miner's house.
    — Sonja Haller, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2015
  • Around the same time, a team unconnected to Assadi posted their own result that reduced the edge coloring time to the order of m times the cube root of n (opens a new tab).
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 12 May 2025
  • The four seemingly unconnected victims were each killed – but not robbed – while walking alone at night within a half-mile area, police said, leading to fears of a serial killer on the loose.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • Yet around 205 million women in the region are still unconnected to mobile internet services.
    — Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2025
  • The panels are without words, and while sometimes the action makes sense from frame to frame, at other times the Peanuts gang seems to be engaging in a series of unconnected shenanigans.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2012

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