unread
Example Sentences
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“All I want to do is make a whole pot of coffee, get the paper and a big stack of unread comic books, and sit on the porch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
While editing helps with emails I do send, a bigger challenge remains: the 16,685 unread messages in my inbox.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
And that might have been where this all ended—an unread message sinking to the bottom of my inbox—if not for an email LabCorp sent three weeks later.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026
Mackesy describes how during lockdown he received "terrifying numbers of emails" through his website, remembering one occasion when his phone said that he had 86,000 unread emails.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
But when, several weeks later, I happened to see it next to her bed unread except for the first few pages, I was furious and suddenly wanted to cry.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
