How to Use unharvested in a Sentence

unharvested

adjective
  • And that’s what those unharvested oysters did over all those months.
    — Louise Schiavone, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Schools are closed and crops have been abandoned, the olives left unharvested.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But once again, the bulk of the available fish will go unharvested due to no buyers.
    — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • From restaurants’ unsold goods to food that goes unharvested from farms, there’s a lot to go around.
    — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
  • Now, produce growers fear that even more crops will go unharvested.
    — National Geographic, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Its three acres of hop vines, always a small part of the 1,260-acre estate, went unharvested this year.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In recent years, a chronic labor shortage has caused 10 percent of the crop to go unharvested.
    — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • There’s one strategy to business growth that is the low-hanging fruit, which often remains unharvested for far too many businesses.
    — Todd Villeneuve, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • In another, Cohen and his team looked at how much food was available to ducks in unharvested crop and moist soil management areas.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Staples of their community’s culture, from maize to ancient grains like amaranth, were left unharvested.
    — Eva Reign, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021
  • As a result, growers left grapes unharvested, pulled out vineyards, and lost contracts with wineries that reduced production.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Reuters reported that farms have lost their immigrant laborers amid the anxiety, leaving crops unharvested and prone to rot.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 8 July 2025
  • Those who assisted say letting the Unhjem's crops go unharvested would've been a big loss for the family and helping out was just common sense.
    — Marika Gerken, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The result is that there are a lot of unharvested photons left to rattle around the leaf, damaging the leaf’s essential apparatus.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2019
  • Crops would go unharvested, food prices would skyrocket, and supply chains would face unprecedented disruption.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Since many crops remain unharvested as Halloween approaches, farmers are hoping to avoid a frost, which can damage or destroy corn and soybeans still out in the field.
    — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, over the past few years, Sealaska has been paid more than $100 million to keep its timber unharvested, for use as carbon offsets.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Deer feed and take shelter in the unharvested agricultural fields, effectively avoiding hunters.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2019
  • That's led to 10 million tons of cosmetically imperfect or unharvested food being lost each year.
    — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Crops are left unharvested in response to market conditions, but they could be marketed with connections to more flexible buyers.
    — Ivanka Trump, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Vineyards were ripped out in record numbers in California, France, and elsewhere, and in some regions, grapes went unharvested and rotted on the vine.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The hundreds of thousands of tons of California grapes left unharvested that year were estimated to be worth more than six hundred million dollars alone.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • After raids on California farms in June, some crops have been left unharvested, with farm operators fearful of more crackdowns to come.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
  • Unsold wine was distilled into industrial alcohol, and whole vineyards went unharvested as some farmers cut their losses by letting the fruit rot rather than turn it into wine.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2017
  • When immigration sweeps pull those workers out of the fields, produce goes unharvested, prices rise at the grocery store, and families across America feel it in their wallets.
    — Javier Palomarez, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Still, even the best experimental silicon solar cells leave almost three-quarters of the available sunlight power unharvested.
    — Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Cohen has studied how mallards relate to unharvested and flooded standing crops in Western Tennessee.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Courgettes, apples, and autumn raspberries were going unharvested.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Not even farmers, when agribusiness destroyed their livelihoods in the 1950s, degraded themselves by lamenting unharvested ears of content.
    — Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
  • But big questions remain about the health of wheat in northern India, the country’s most productive region, where the crop remains largely unharvested and has therefore been baking in the searing heat.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022

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