unexpressed

Example Sentences

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Rose has few friends, perhaps because she has few unexpressed thoughts—and those thoughts tend toward the long-winded and uncompromising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

But the characters do, sharing a private language of family dysfunction and unexpressed anguish.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

These aren’t absences, not deaths, but they nevertheless carry the risk of leaving questions unanswered, love unexpressed and truths unsaid.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023

Perhaps personal resentments had accumulated, unexpressed but still powerful.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

Wang Lung, watching her move steadily and slowly about the rooms on her big feet, watching secretly the stolid, square face, the unexpressed, half-fearful look of her eyes, made nothing of her.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck