How to Use unharvested in a Sentence

unharvested

adjective
  • But once again, the bulk of the available fish will go unharvested due to no buyers.
    Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • From restaurants’ unsold goods to food that goes unharvested from farms, there’s a lot to go around.
    Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
  • In recent years, a chronic labor shortage has caused 10 percent of the crop to go unharvested.
    Sam Wood, Philly.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • That’s how many winter crops could go unharvested because of the war, worth roughly $1.4 billion.
    Madeline Halpert, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The full impact of the flooding is yet to be seen as unharvested crops are still in danger and flooded soil is causing a delay in replanting.
    Amber Randall, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Now, produce growers fear that even more crops will go unharvested.
    National Geographic, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Instead, over the past few years, Sealaska has been paid more than $100 million to keep its timber unharvested, for use as carbon offsets.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Those who assisted say letting the Unhjem's crops go unharvested would've been a big loss for the family and helping out was just common sense.
    Marika Gerken, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The result is that there are a lot of unharvested photons left to rattle around the leaf, damaging the leaf’s essential apparatus.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2019
  • Since many crops remain unharvested as Halloween approaches, farmers are hoping to avoid a frost, which can damage or destroy corn and soybeans still out in the field.
    Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • But big questions remain about the health of wheat in northern India, the country’s most productive region, where the crop remains largely unharvested and has therefore been baking in the searing heat.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
  • Staples of their community’s culture, from maize to ancient grains like amaranth, were left unharvested.
    Eva Reign, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021
  • That's led to 10 million tons of cosmetically imperfect or unharvested food being lost each year.
    CBS News, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Unsold wine was distilled into industrial alcohol, and whole vineyards went unharvested as some farmers cut their losses by letting the fruit rot rather than turn it into wine.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2017
  • In Canada, 18 percent of Manitoba’s potato fields were left unharvested, while 6.5 percent of Alberta’s crop was damaged by frost.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Deer feed and take shelter in the unharvested agricultural fields, effectively avoiding hunters.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Another 300 acres of unharvested corn and other vegetables were also ruined by floodwaters.
    Keri Blakinger, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Courgettes, apples, and autumn raspberries were going unharvested.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Several Alaska Native corporations have already capitalized on timber tracts in California’s carbon credits market, which allow forest owners to get paid for keeping lands unharvested for 100 years.
    Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022

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