How to Use unaccounted in a Sentence

unaccounted

adjective

• The hope was for Boyd to hit an unaccounted-for Burrow in the end zone.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2022
• Many troops were also unaccounted for at the end of the war.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
• More than 200 tons of toxic lead from the roof and spire was unaccounted for.
  — Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2020
• In just the past week, at least nine people have died, and many more are unaccounted for.
  — Jamie Tarabay, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2020
• About 50 had moved out of town or were unaccounted for.
  — Anne M. Hamilton, courant.com, 14 July 2019
• None of the workers who called 911 were aware Delph was unaccounted for.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• One of the volunteers — the one he was supposed to meet — was unaccounted for.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
• What should Prescott do if a heavy blitz left an unaccounted-for threat?
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
• One by one on Thursday, Creasey got word about the unaccounted pups from Dog Tag.
  — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
• The house caught fire, and Ballard said the suspect as well as two women who were in the home were unaccounted for.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• The remains are believed to be those of the homeowner, who was unaccounted for at the time of the blaze, troopers said.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2021
• As the death toll continues to rise, thousands were unaccounted for in the storm's wake.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
• The death toll in the collapse rose to 95 on Tuesday; 14 more people are unaccounted for.
  — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 13 July 2021
• At the time, the girls’ mother, 27-year-old Nicole Ashley Jackson, was thought to have been a victim of the fire but was unaccounted for.
  — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
• Things have gone unaccounted for and that’s a really hard part of this case.
  — Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
• For about three months, the marble was unaccounted for.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• Gabi told me that the ship had drifted off course because of an unaccounted-for hundred-and-forty-pound mass.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• The group wants to be part of the solution so that no relatives are unaccounted for.
  — Nienke Onneweer, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2021
• Two of the lifeboats were empty and the fourth was reportedly unaccounted for.
  — Joseph Wilson, ajc, 16 Feb. 2022
• Those unaccounted for were in the Beach Road area, where the largest slide - about 600 feet wide - came down Wednesday afternoon, Olerud said.
  — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2020
• But about 5,300 Americans presumed to have been killed in the North are still unaccounted for.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Last year, only 8% of the water was unaccounted for, Philips said.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The plane and its six crew members remain unaccounted for.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• About 160 people were still unaccounted for Friday amid fears that the death toll of at least four could go much higher.
  — Mae Anderson, USA TODAY, 26 June 2021
• Many of the occupants of the convoy are still unaccounted for -- one week later.
  — Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister and David McKenzie, CNN, 3 Apr. 2021
• They were later told the girl, Gracey Weinhold, was unaccounted for and could still be inside.
  — oregonlive, 2 June 2020
• Jubas also said that one of the bullets fired at Spencer remains unaccounted for.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• But there are still many buildings to comb through, many people still unaccounted for.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• The emergency worker at the scene said that at least 100 people were confirmed dead and that more remained unaccounted for.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Two of them have been identified and three remain unaccounted for.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025