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How to use unopened in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Unopened means not yet opened; still closed. Example: “A zine can't help your practice if it ends up in the cybertrash unopened.”

More sentences with unopened

  • A zine can't help your practice if it ends up in the cybertrash unopened.2011, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael W. McLaughlin, Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants. From the entry cybertrash
  • With the butt end of an admonitory pencil he indicated the unopened trap.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry butt end
  • At any other time he would certainly not have left them unopened.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry japan
  • He showed Nicol into the kitchen and stowed the letter in the hallstand drawer alongside the other unopened envelopes.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 16. From the entry hallstand
  • Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.2002, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's. From the entry denier
  • And yet she sent back his letters unopened and crashed down the telephone receiver on him with monotonous regularity.1939 June 16, Edwin Rutt, “Four Blind Dates”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXVIII, number 204, Kingston, N.Y.: Freeman Publishing…. From the entry plumber
  • Not until Palma was home did she start getting itchy to open it before Christmas, but in the end she put it away unopened.2014, Ana Castillo, Give It to Me, New York: Feminist Press, Part 1, Chapter 14, p. 60. From the entry itchy
  • The three species of sunbirds changed from specializing on clumps with large numbers of closed flowers to visiting flowers nonpreferentially at different relative frequencies of unopened flowers.1980, Douglass H. Morse, Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59, →ISBN. From the entry nonpreferentially
  • Besides all these advantages, it is important to note that vascular injection only labels luminised vessels and therefore does not identify unopened capillaries, endothelial tip cells or isolated endothelial cells.2015 May 28, Jean-Marie Delalande, Nikhil Thapar, Alan J. Burns, “Dual Labeling of Neural Crest Cells and Blood Vessels Within Chicken…. From the entry luminised
  • Near the memorial were some wine casks and an unopened stubby of beer, whose label was yet to fade, which had been left to slake the thirst of the deceased.2004, Michael McGirr, Bypass: The Story of a Road, Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2005, page 117. From the entry stubby

Meaning of unopened

  1. adjective Not yet opened; still closed.

Full definition of unopened

Questions about unopened in a sentence

How do you use unopened in a sentence?
Unopened is used as an adjective. For example: “A zine can't help your practice if it ends up in the cybertrash unopened.”
What is a short sentence with unopened?
“At any other time he would certainly not have left them unopened.”
What does unopened mean?
Unopened means not yet opened; still closed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unopened (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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