How to Use unfurnished in a Sentence

unfurnished

adjective
  • Rooms still are unfurnished, but much of the work is complete.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The result was a fresh start—a clean, unfurnished room with new paint.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Ana and her children are now sleeping on the floor in a friend’s unfurnished spare room.
    — Time, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The unfurnished units both have two entrances, which are required in condos of this size.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • For an unfurnished unit, a landlord may not charge more than twice the amount of monthly rent for a down payment.
    — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Once inside the unfurnished apartment, Bulaya closed the door behind her and didn't open it again for three days.
    — Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Inside the unfurnished ward, nurses hurried to deduce who had been infected and who had a cold.
    — Stephen Robert Miller, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • Edwards said the house was mostly unfurnished, with mattresses leaning against the walls.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Some are furnished, glamping style, with beds, tables and outdoor chairs; the cheapest come unfurnished.
    — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • The house was unfurnished, per the complaint, and its kitchen was too small to adequately serve the 30 people who lived there.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2023
  • Until then, the limit is two times the monthly rent for unfurnished units and three times the rent for furnished ones, the state justice department said.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The property was sold as an unfurnished shell, and the family hired local contractors to finish.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • And what the unfurnished house lacked in personality, Caillier wanted to fill with that of her clients.
    — Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The apartment comes unfurnished, except for window treatments throughout.
    — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • For the next six months, a San Diego landlord can still charge up to two months’ rent for an unfurnished apartment and three months’ rent for a furnished apartment.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • All security deposits combined can’t exceed two months’ rent for an unfurnished apartment or three months’ rent for a furnished apartment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The former lovers meet up at Issa’s new unfurnished office, and the romantic tension between them is thick, as usual.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Keef and his friends crowded into an unfurnished apartment, waving guns in time to an ominous, chiming beat fit for a funeral procession.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Speaking to journalists in front of the crime scene, police said the apartment had been rented recently and was unfurnished except for tarps on the walls and windows.
    — Joyce Lau, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The latest state-of-the-art project highlights luxury living in multi-family apartments and will be sold both furnished and unfurnished.
    — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • In a couple of weeks, an unfurnished property can be completely transformed and available on the leading booking platforms.
    — Amiad Soto, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • According to Gonzalez, the apartment was unfurnished, full of roaches and flies and had soiled carpeting.
    — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The interior is still unfurnished, but the original spiral staircase has been restored and installed.
    — Anna Kodé, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In California, your landlord can charge the equivalent of up to two months’ rent as a security deposit on an unfurnished unit.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The house is being sold unfurnished, though according to a spokesperson for the designer, buyers will have the option to purchase furnishings by request.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Post wedding, our newlyweds retire to their brand new appartement, completely unfurnished save for a mattress on the floor, a bottle of Champagne and two flutes.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2017
  • The small bathroom had shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, sunscreen, bug spray, a hair dryer, and a hair straightener, and the unfurnished, blue-tile kitchen was stocked with coffee and bottled water.
    — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Jazz bassist Pat Senatore has a house up for one-year lease — furnished or unfurnished — in Studio City at $5,850 a month.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The kids would ecstatically roll around in it in our living room, which was unfurnished, except for foam mattresses on the floor—covered, of course, in Bernard Screen Print.
    — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
  • This past week saw Delvey fresh off the Rikers boat and back in the East Village, her unfurnished apartment less-deliberately minimal.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2022

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