How to Use unrecovered in a Sentence

unrecovered

adjective
  • In this silent, eerie scene, the soldier’s body still lay unrecovered.
    — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The report states that no crude oil was unrecovered and that the spill did not affect inland or coastal water.
    — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The patent holder will then be left to eat whatever unrecovered costs remain.
    — WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
  • And experts are growing increasingly concerned that there may be more at stake than unrecovered money.
    — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The shovels had nothing to do with hijacking; this was a cache of unrecovered firefighting equipment.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Sep. 2020
  • But sometimes a track is simply impossible for the human eye to see, and dead animals go unrecovered.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Earth’s oceans are littered with hundreds of thousands of unrecovered mines dating back as far as World War I.
    — Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
  • However, a motive in the triple homicide remains unclear, as does why Matthew’s remains went unrecovered for so long.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 15 May 2018
  • The three unrecovered vehicles are believed to be in the colors Brittnay Blue and Grey.
    — Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2022
  • How the Berry Brothers had been called in from Yolo County to drag the river but how the bodies remained unrecovered.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Rouse said two shell casings found at the scene matched an unrecovered gun that Michelle Zajko used at a firing range in the backyard of her home in Vermont.
    — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • In the event of total loss or an unrecovered theft, the insurance company is only obligated to pay replacement value for your car.
    — Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Thousands more are unrecovered from battlefields and former POW camps.
    — Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2019
  • While state officials say employers won’t have to cover unemployment benefits paid to fraudsters, taxpayers will still be on the hook for unrecovered funds.
    — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2021
  • At the high end, one estimate has pegged the potential global gains in unrecovered taxes at over $500 billion annually.
    — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Lab examiners further determined Chambers' unrecovered gun fired eight times based on cartridges inside Miller’s vehicle.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2022
  • And in Hawaii, where lung transplants aren’t offered so donor lungs often go unrecovered, Legacy of Life is testing a new incubator to preserve the organs for shipping long distances.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The state of Saxony, where Dresden is located, claimed almost 89 million euros in damages for the pieces, some of which required repairs in addition to the pieces that remain unrecovered.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 16 May 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands of unrecovered mines remain around Europe’s coastlines, according to Caput—they’re a dangerous legacy of both World Wars.
    — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Hedaya was the only victim left unrecovered when firefighters concluded their search for bodies Friday as, nearly a month after the collapse, the stories-high debris pile was cleared so that the building's entire foundation was exposed.
    — NBC News, 22 July 2021
  • During the trial, the state offered tower-location data gleaned from the two unrecovered cellphones that appeared to show similar movements toward and away from the remote area of New Orleans East where the girl's body was found.
    — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • News of the potential scam comes as the Louvre continues to deal with the fallout of the October 2025 broad-daylight theft of $120 million worth of crown jewels, which remain unrecovered.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The global management consulting firm estimated some $150 billion in raw materials value lost annually from unrecovered textile waste.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Authorities said hazardous material risks have largely been mitigated, but the situation is now shifting toward potential biohazard issues as food inside the facility remains unrecovered.
    — Iris Salem, CBS News, 20 June 2026
  • The article warned that unrecovered wreckage could reveal not only technical details but also strategic operational patterns, making effective and timely salvage operations a critical factor in safeguarding China’s military edge at sea.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026

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