unwritten

Example Sentences

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The unwritten rules: the bigger, the louder, the splashier, the starrier, the better.

From The Wall Street Journal

“That unwritten rule not to touch accredited foreign journalists, has stopped working,” said Pavlov, a member of the First Department legal aid group.

From Seattle Times

“There were unwritten rules that applied — quite different than they are today,” Mr. Leahy, who was first elected in 1974, said in his farewell speech to the Senate.

From New York Times

I understand that not everyone understands the unwritten rules of fertility struggles or social media blasts.

From Washington Post

And the film adds what’s left unwritten, the silence between the words, the doubts, the feelings and the emotion.

From Los Angeles Times