How to Use unmade in a Sentence

unmade

adjective
  • Few things depress me more than going to sleep in an unmade bed.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The beds were unmade and wet towels were still in the bathroom.
    — Dorothy Dworkin, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The two were sitting in a chair with an unmade bed seen in the background.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
  • That five-alarm unmade-bed freakout would have been the end of something for me.
    — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Her bed was unmade, the front door was unlocked, but her purse and cell phone were still inside.
    — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • My husband sat nearby on the edge of an unmade bed strewn with children’s toys.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 May 2020
  • There’s a forest in the making, but one waiting to be unmade once more by fire.
    — AZCentral.com, 20 June 2022
  • The bed was unmade and the sheet pulled back, but otherwise nothing was out of place.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Inside the room, toys are still scattered on the floor and the bed the pair slept on remained unmade.
    — Fox News, 18 May 2021
  • The fabric of the world will soon be unmade by a confusion about flavors.
    — Francesco Pacifico, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Piles were made, then unmade, then remade into new standing structures.
    — Sarah Jeong, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Jenner captioned the photo of herself standing in front of an unmade bed.
    — Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 9 Jan. 2020
  • In the picture, Brady can be seen posing on the edge of an unmade bed with a view of palm trees and the ocean in the background.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In the picture, Brady can be seen posing on the edge of an unmade bed with a view of palm trees and the ocean in the background.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The images of a laundry hamper full of clothes, an unmade bed and a crowded bookshelf stop people in their tracks.
    — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Neither of the children had furniture, just a single unmade mattress tossed on the floor.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Garland comes off as a product of the studio system who was both created and destroyed, made and unmade by it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2017
  • Troopers noted the bed was unmade, a jar of dog treats had been overturned in the master bedroom and the Helms were gone.
    — Mary Esch, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • If a caseworker disapproved of a client’s unmade bed, a check might disappear.
    — Livia Gershon, Longreads, 30 May 2018
  • Masterson says where Pursehouse went next was revealed by Amie's unmade bed.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The normally tidy Anderson had a wet towel on his bed, which was unmade, and there were some clothes on the floor in the kitchen.
    — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
  • In her bedroom, leaning against the headboard of the unmade bed, the woman clicked on this post, and replies appeared underneath.
    — Sally Rooney, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • That is a similar issue with the still-unmade Sherlock Holmes 3.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In the course of investigating the crime, lives that looked ideal from the outside are exposed as unmade beds of secrets and lies.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Every constant was unmade; the maps were redrawn; and the old, steady rhythm of life stuttered and pulsed erratically.
    — Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • The bed beside it was gray and unmade, but the food in the containers was colorful, a hint of pleasure, and beauty, amid the rumpled mess.
    — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Schumer had one of the two (often unmade) beds in the living room and was accused by his roommates of hogging cereal (one of his favorite foods).
    — Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The story unfolds against a backdrop of flashing police car lights, low-rent motel rooms, unmade beds, cigarette smoke, booze and guns.
    — Chrissie Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The pair had read several unmade scripts based on their book over the years, so Sherwin was doubtful of its chances in Hollywood.
    — Andy Kifer, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • In a few seconds, the mugs and papers and dirty laundry are hidden behind a curving bamboo wall, the unmade bed only a memory.
    — Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2021

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