How to Use unread in a Sentence

unread

adjective
  • On her desk was a pile of magazines that had been left unread for months.
  • Every pre-read that goes unread?
    — Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The message still shows as unread.
    — Laura Turbay, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The guilt of a stack of unread books is a low constant whine at the back of your head.
    — Philip Maymin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • To find unread emails, go to the search bar at the top of your Gmail account.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
  • When the name of a channel is in bold font, that means there are unread messages in the chat.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • When the name of a channel is in bold font, that means there are unread messages in the chat .
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Contact us by unread text; cryptic one-line e-mail; or frantic phone call.
    — Nikki Palumbo, The New Yorker, 19 June 2021
  • Some feel fine with 3,254 unread emails, while others can keep on top of it.
    — Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Our response to that message has been sitting in that inbox, unread.
    — Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Click through to check out the best of the sale — trust us, this is way more important that those 25 unread emails.
    — Emily Ruane, refinery29.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Bookey is a stack of unread books that lives by a bed and haunts the other characters with the stress of not reading enough.
    — Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The tool can also open new emails, download their contents, and then mark them as unread, so as not to raise suspicions.
    — WIRED, 28 Dec. 2021
  • His social media and cell phone inboxes seemed to always be full of unread messages.
    — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 22 Sep. 2020
  • And somewhere on a beach in Indonesia, a book stayed unread a little longer than usual.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • Some 90% of the cables in her house are never used, and 19% of her books remain unread.
    — CNN, 7 July 2022
  • WhatsApp messages sent from abroad remained unread.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And somewhere on a beach in Indonesia, a book stayed unread a little longer than usual.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • On Android, hold down on a conversation, tap the three dots, then Mark it as unread.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That film led Dornan to find some unread texts from his father, commenting on his work in the hit comedy.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Readers know all about the pressure, a pressure that can feel almost accusatory, that can come with owning a stack of unread books.
    — Jack Barlow, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
  • Don’t spiral because of one unread text or vague interaction online.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • And, to be sure, the last thing the world needs is another group of angsty indie rockers with too many unread Verso books on their shelves.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 1 June 2026
  • Thou mayest skim unread messages if the number of notifications is greater than 20.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 18 May 2026
  • Carey's followers were quick to point out the icon's full battery, low number of unread messages, and the fact that both stars had the other in their contacts.
    — Rachel Schonberger, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But the unread books remained unread and grew at a slow and steady pace while new AI projects grew exponentially.
    — Philip Maymin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • Messages appear as a blue indicator dot rather than Slack’s red dot that displays your number of unread messages.
    — Rani Molla, Vox, 24 June 2019
  • Yet during some of those years—okay, many of them—the weekly issues have piled up in my home and gone mostly unread between biannual days of bingeing and purging.
    — John Williams, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The congratulations text messages were still unread.
    — Alla Adam, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This goes for chaotic inboxes, unread messages, and endless tabs, which create low-level cognitive noise.
    — Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026

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