How to Use unbelted in a Sentence

unbelted

adjective

• Over 800 people die each year in car crashes who were unbelted in the back seat.
  — Hope Yen and Tom Krisher, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
• Yet Vic’s tiny, unbelted dog is seated in the backseat.
  — William Earl, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
• The Yukon then hit the barrier and the unbelted motorist was partly thrown from the vehicle, the patrol said.
  — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 12 Jan. 2021
• Even if one party was trying to move from one seat to another, why was the other unbelted?
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• They could be worn with either spaghetti straps or a halter neck, belted or unbelted, and at any hem-length.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2021
• There is no data on injuries and deaths among unbelted passengers in hired cars, but in 2015, three high-profile deaths made the issue more prominent.
  — Fran Kritz, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The new law is subject to secondary enforcement, meaning police don’t pull over drivers solely because of an unbelted adult in the back seat, AAA said.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The seat belt reminder rule is designed to get more people to buckle up — 25 percent of back-seat passengers go unbelted, a rate far higher than people sitting in the front.
  — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• Those determined to stay unbelted can wait out the system or turn it off using the Settings feature on their car’s infotainment screen.
  — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2021
• Under the law, a ticket may only be issued for the unbelted passenger if the driver is pulled over for another offense, such as speeding.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 13 July 2021
• Serbus, who had been unbelted, died at Redwood County Hospital.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2017
• The four passengers in the capsule experienced 3 to 4 minutes of microgravity weightlessness, unbelted from their seats and staring out of the largest windows ever installed on a spacecraft.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2021
• Four of the 10 fatalities involved an unbelted driver or passenger.
  — Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2021
• The problem is that our federal safety regulators have a mandate to protect two different populations: the belted and unbelted.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2021
• According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, the state has a 93.8 percent observed seat belt usage rate, but a disproportionate number of fatalities involve unbelted motorists and passengers.
  — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024