How to Use unpublished in a Sentence

unpublished

adjective
  • Three or four unpublished full books.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Part of me still thinks this is all just a chapter in an unpublished novel.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 July 2022
  • There's also a toll-free number to call to hear about unpublished fares.
    — Jill Fergus, Good Housekeeping, 26 Feb. 2019
  • The stories came from her unpublished manuscripts and papers.
    — Rebekah Denn, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
  • This did much to preserve her memory, but what about her unpublished work?
    — Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Salinger also has said unpublished work by his late father will be coming out, but may be years away.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But despite all the fanfare, the text of the deal remained unpublished.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In all of these cases, though, the requests were ignored, and the unpublished work came to light.
    — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The three-judge panel’s unpublished ruling was only three pages long.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
  • Matt Salinger also has said unpublished work by his late father will be coming out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • One novel went unpublished; the next found a home only after years of effort.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
  • But six years later, that data was still unpublished, lingering in the back of their minds.
    — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 28 May 2020
  • Billy Bragg and Wilco got their hands on a trove of unpublished Guthrie works.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 26 June 2026
  • And three or four unpublished manuscripts sitting on her computer that nobody knew about.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Yogo said the 40% savings rate is a new data point, yet unpublished.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
  • Along the way, Porzak fell in love with her mother’s unpublished manuscript.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The book is a sequel to 1953’s Junkie and went unpublished for decades.
    — Rich Juzwiak, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Retail prices for all of the products remain unpublished and unknown.
    — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The film is based on the unpublished Stan Parish novel, with Parish on board to adapt the script.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 7 May 2026
  • New archival sources and previously unpublished notes help recount the first space flight to orbit the earth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
  • These authors use unpublished Geisel sketches for new picture books.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 27 June 2026
  • Among the unpublished works is an acerbic essay that Miller penned in the wake of Monroe’s death.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2018
  • At this stage in his career, Frost was an unpublished poet, chicken farmer and schoolteacher.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • If a Facebook page is deleted rather than unpublished, it's gone after 14 days.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 29 Jan. 2018
  • So in the years since his father’s death, Matt Salinger has been working his way through the unpublished writing.
    — oregonlive.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Or maybe DeepMind had somehow managed to get hold of a cache of unpublished data?
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Of course Sinclair doesn’t want an honest criticism of his work from the unpublished writer.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • This week’s opinion was issued as an unpublished memorandum, which does not set precedent, the union said.
    — Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Details about Mythos leaked in an unpublished blog post first reported on by Fortune.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The unpublished data suggests that sleep states may not be the best way to categorize sleep consciousness.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025

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