How to Use unsaid in a Sentence

unsaid

adjective
  • I think that some things are better left unsaid.
  • Left unsaid is that no one needs to.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
  • If things have been unsaid, now’s the time to say them.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Each thing said seems to skim above a deep pool of the unsaid.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
  • There’s so much unsaid, but so much being said.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2025
  • What’s left unsaid is often where the risk lies.
    — Stephan Lendi, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This one took him to the top, and there was nothing left unsaid.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The last few times have been nice…but there was something unsaid.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 May 2026
  • The last few times have been nice… but there was something unsaid.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Some things are better left unsaid.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But there’s so much blank space that’s unfilled and so many things left unsaid.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
  • Some words cannot be unsaid, some actions cannot be undone.
    — Shruti Mutalik, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The unsaid part is, what would the governments want to say about that?
    — WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • What went unsaid was that there was likely to be a lot of tumult in the search.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • As here these words cannot be taken back into the windless wide unsaid.
    — The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
  • The memoir's only flaw is in what is written but what is left unsaid.
    — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Words once said cannot be unsaid; images that are seen are unable to be unseen.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 June 2020
  • Left unsaid was the effect, if any, of being a younger sibling.
    — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
  • The fact that so much of what was once left unsaid or ignored is now coming out of the shadows.
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 8 Jan. 2018
  • This dance between the said and the unsaid, the metaphors of secrets is a marker of their work.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There is always, of course, plenty left unsaid with Williams.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 9 July 2016
  • The strength of the movie became everything that went unsaid.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • An unsaid subject hung between them.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • Sometimes things are brushed off, avoided or simply left unsaid.
    — Mark Travers, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Left unsaid was what else his family was breathing.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • She was struck by how much was said — about family, teachers, boys — and how much was left unsaid.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • What was left unsaid was how important those fractions of a second are in a game.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • It’s often noted in the novel that things that are left unsaid cease to exist.
    — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • How giving up sanctions will get Iran to agree to a better deal is left unsaid.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • There was so much kind of unsaid and said, and anticipation and all this stuff.
    — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021

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