unexpressed

Example Sentences

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It was just a trauma response to unexpressed emotions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

But all these things left unexpressed, Nora has no idea just how well she and her father know each other, even without words.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

“For Black women there was a belief, probably unexpressed, that there was only room for one of us,” Davis recalled.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

Perhaps personal resentments had accumulated, unexpressed but still powerful.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

As was customary in their nineteen years of marriage, he left the grits on his plate untouched, an unexpressed but articulate declaration, rooted in geography, that the society he married into had not assimilated him.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy