How to Use unseal in a Sentence

unseal

verb
  • The court unsealed the documents in the Douglas trial today.
  • The case has now been unsealed.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
  • It should have been unsealed and made public three years ago!
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The case was unsealed on April 10.
    — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • It isn’t known why the case was held for two and a half years, or why it was just unsealed.
    — Nbc Chicago, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The case was unsealed on April 10.
    — CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The text was unsealed for the first time in 2019.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • George Gascón last week joined a motion to unseal the records.
    — James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • Winning the order to unseal them was the first step for his team.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The indictment and the new charge will be unsealed at that time.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The Enquirer went to court and got a judge to unseal the records.
    — Julia Fair, Cincinnati.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Thomas said his office would release the report when the case is unsealed.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
  • Court records show the charges were filed in March but unsealed Wednesday.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Garcia said there was a court order to unseal the box and staff simply grabbed the wrong one.
    — Bill Hanna, star-telegram, 13 Mar. 2018
  • It was unsealed at the hearing but not yet publicly available.
    — Joshua Goodman, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Transcripts from all three hearings will also need to be unsealed.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The next hammer to drop on 3ve came in an indictment unsealed last month.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2018
  • That portion of the law also states that a court order could unseal the ballots.
    — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The government has filed those under seal and is asking the court to unseal them.
    — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • An indictment could be unsealed if the person is later charged as an adult.
    — Cristian Benavides, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • He was charged in March, and the indictment was unsealed in May.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
  • Biden has since paid off his tax debts, a fact that his lawyers have cited in the days since the indictment was unsealed.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • That’s absurd, of course — moving to unseal the search warrant is a big deal indeed.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Large bags of sugar sat unsealed on the tile floor, where cockroaches scurried around day and night.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • And that’s why the ballot remained on my desk for weeks, stuffed in the envelope but unsealed.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Original brick walls were left exposed and unsealed, along with I-beams and rafters.
    — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Three days ago, the trial judge ordered that Giuliani's tax records be unsealed.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • These are often left unsealed during construction or the sealant has failed.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Garland said the government had filed a motion to unseal the search warrant.
    — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The county moved to strike the report two days after the Free Press sought to unseal it.
    — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2020

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