unmade

Example Sentences

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Second, they believed that financial fortunes were made and unmade, above all else, by circumstance, meaning that defaults did not tar someone’s financial reputation for life.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Mexican media outlets published images of the cabin's luxurious interior, showing furniture with open drawers and unmade beds.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Bernard Pivot, a French television host who made and unmade writers with a weekly book chat program that drew millions of viewers, died on Monday in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris.

From New York Times • May 9, 2024

“If I said purple, you’d say red / With your brown hair tumbling like an unmade bed / And we’d both die laughing at something I said / Talking to you.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023

He looks around my tiny room, taking in the unmade bed, the clothes, both clean and dirty, piled on my desk chair, the blank walls, the cheap furniture.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins