How to Use unmonitored in a Sentence

unmonitored

adjective
  • He was left in his cell unmonitored and found dead the next day.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Place the plant high enough to be out of reach of unmonitored children and pets.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 29 Nov. 2024
  • And unlike coq au vin cooked on the stovetop, once the prep work is done, the dish can cook unmonitored.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • What can be done to calm traffic on a roadway that most of the time feels like an unmonitored raceway?
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Marroquin was unmonitored for at least an hour, the lawsuit says.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2022
  • Because so many stations are unmonitored, or abandoned, these sorts of trouble spots dot the ice.
    — Leah Feiger, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2021
  • But the new rules will also allow very large numbers of people to go about their daily life unmonitored.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Some people will have five different screens open so that no electoral map or needle goes unmonitored.
    — Caitlin Kelly, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
  • On the high seas, huge, unmonitored ships and underfunded coast guards conspire to destroy our oceans.
    — John Konrad, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
  • The other lawsuit challenged the use of unmonitored drop boxes, which the judge also ruled as lawful.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
  • One, approved by a House committee this week, would ban the use of unmonitored ballot drop boxes.
    — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
  • But, of course, the internet is an anarchic bazaar, filled with unmonitored corners.
    — Amanda Chicago Lewis, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Turn on parental controls, activate kid-friendly modes and block apps that allow private or unmonitored chats.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Ultimately, Ge went unmonitored before he was found hanged in a shower stall.
    — CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • The men were in an unmonitored room at the jail, and the closest officer was at a desk facing away from the room, according to jail officials.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The socks provide great support for long walks, and long sits, say, at cultural performances, but should never be worn unmonitored overnight.
    — Judi Dash, The Denver Post, 2 May 2017
  • Between appointments, there exists a vast, unmonitored expanse of time.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • Luggage locks also act as a deterrent against people who may open attempt to open others' baggage in unmonitored areas.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In the suit, filed in 2015, Manning said she was raped by a male prisoner in an unmonitored classroom.
    — Ryan Tarinelli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The mystery plover could also have come from an unmonitored nest in the Great Lakes region, or even the Great Plains.
    — Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • These areas are remote and largely unmonitored, Andreassen said.
    — Stephanie Pappas Live Science Contributor, Fox News, 5 June 2017
  • With so much unmonitored time to access internet resources or stumble across pornography, what are families to do?
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • He was also allowed an unmonitored personal phone call the night before he was found dead, a violation of prison policy.
    — Michael R. Sisak and Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • When left unmonitored, wildlife can jeopardize the safety of any aircraft, said Ellison.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • This is one of the first assessments of how well the reintroduction has worked after more than five decades, as the birds were essentially left unmonitored since their release.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The New York City that Ross describes is rougher, and its teenage characters are largely unmonitored by the adults in their lives.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Some states require trappers to check their lines every twenty-four hours, but Idaho law allows devices to go unmonitored for seventy-two.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • After stealing guns from Erickson’s home, the suspects returned to school and entered through an unmonitored entrance.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Yet he was allowed to keep his tennis shoes against the chief psychiatrist’s orders, and he was placed unmonitored in a standard cell instead of a suicide-resistant cell.
    — Don Thompson, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The creators of those videos, in turn, direct viewers to private, unmonitored channels on Discord and Telegram.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024

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