How to Use unsent in a Sentence

unsent

adjective
  • The video and message were unsent.
    — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Twitter feeds don’t load, email struggles to come through, and texts hang unsent.
    — Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Your recipients will see a note in the chat that a message was unsent.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But now that Charles is king, Allen said that her letter would remain unsent.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • This letter writer penned her unsent note to a high school boyfriend who re-entered her life decades later.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • This unsent letter, written by a 28-year-old, was composed on the Notes app of a mobile phone, and sent to us as screen shots.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Apple will notify all parties in a conversation that a message has been unsent.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 June 2022
  • And the sender must hope the recipient didn’t see a preview of the original message on the lock screen before it was edited or unsent.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Suleima writes to Naseem in diary entries and unsent letters, and to her late father, both men equally unreachable.
    — Lydia Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Among those emails are unsent drafts, abandoned because of distraction or hesitation.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Messages can be unsent for up to two minutes after they’ve been sent, and they can be edited for up to 15 minutes after being sent.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2022
  • To make matters even more complicated, a number of the errant texts appear to be unsent texts from around Valentine’s Day.
    — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The adventures that follow for Nathaniel are triggered both by hormones and by finding, with his sister, their mother's full, unsent trunk in the basement.
    — Bethanne Patrick, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Much of the narrative is in the form of unsent letters from Agnes to her mother, letters that keep the thought of her near yet at the same time reinforce the awareness of her absence.
    — Pamela Erens, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2017
  • On Ventura and iOS 16 devices, users will be notified when messages have been unsent or edited.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 1 July 2022
  • According to the Post, Syniverse said that regular maintenance is what caused the previously unsent messages to be delivered yesterday.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
  • As of last week, nearly 2,900 second installment bills that were supposed to go out last November were still unsent — including the bungalow Brooks has owned since 1982.
    — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • An earlier version of this piece didn't accurately describe how older operating systems will handle edited and unsent iMessages from Ventura or iOS 16; that description has been corrected.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 1 July 2022

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