How to Use unmade in a Sentence

unmade

adjective
  • The beds were unmade and wet towels were still in the bathroom.
    Dorothy Dworkin, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Inside the room, toys are still scattered on the floor and the bed the pair slept on remained unmade.
    Fox News, 18 May 2021
  • In the picture, Brady can be seen posing on the edge of an unmade bed with a view of palm trees and the ocean in the background.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In the picture, Brady can be seen posing on the edge of an unmade bed with a view of palm trees and the ocean in the background.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Hamid rescued the prayer mat off the nappy-covered floor and dropped it on the unmade bed.
    Leila Aboulela, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • That five-alarm unmade-bed freakout would have been the end of something for me.
    Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The bed was unmade and the sheet pulled back, but otherwise nothing was out of place.
    Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Her bed was unmade, the front door was unlocked, but her purse and cell phone were still inside.
    NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • There’s a forest in the making, but one waiting to be unmade once more by fire.
    AZCentral.com, 20 June 2022
  • Few things depress me more than going to sleep in an unmade bed.
    New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Read: unmade beds, piles of laundry, or the ubiquitous beige blank wall with the hint of a houseplant in the background.
    Country Living, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Troopers noted the bed was unmade, a jar of dog treats had been overturned in the master bedroom and the Helms were gone.
    Mary Esch, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • My husband sat nearby on the edge of an unmade bed strewn with children’s toys.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 May 2020
  • The normally tidy Anderson had a wet towel on his bed, which was unmade, and there were some clothes on the floor in the kitchen.
    Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Center field was an unmade bed for the Indians in 2021.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The bed beside it was gray and unmade, but the food in the containers was colorful, a hint of pleasure, and beauty, amid the rumpled mess.
    Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2020
  • In her bedroom, leaning against the headboard of the unmade bed, the woman clicked on this post, and replies appeared underneath.
    Sally Rooney, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • That is a similar issue with the still-unmade Sherlock Holmes 3.
    Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Jenner captioned the photo of herself standing in front of an unmade bed.
    Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 9 Jan. 2020
  • In the course of investigating the crime, lives that looked ideal from the outside are exposed as unmade beds of secrets and lies.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • There was my bed, still unmade from earlier that morning.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 10 July 2018
  • Garland comes off as a product of the studio system who was both created and destroyed, made and unmade by it.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2017
  • Amid the injury and illness of others, statements went unmade, save for a few moments of hope Thursday in New Orleans.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Police found that the bed was unmade, a container of dog treats was overturned in the master bedroom and the Helms were nowhere to be found, according to reports.
    Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Schumer had one of the two (often unmade) beds in the living room and was accused by his roommates of hogging cereal (one of his favorite foods).
    Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Every constant was unmade; the maps were redrawn; and the old, steady rhythm of life stuttered and pulsed erratically.
    Cory Doctorow, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • This, after all, is the weakness of all satire: It is made or unmade by the manner in which it is delivered and subsequently received.
    Yussef Cole, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Ditte Isager The old bro glory days were defined by piles of undone laundry built up over months, an unmade bed, piles of shoes tossed in every corner.
    Adam Hurly, GQ, 8 July 2017
  • Even in reproduction, the arrangement of these works is affecting: three visions of the world being unmade and made again.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2020
  • In a few seconds, the mugs and papers and dirty laundry are hidden behind a curving bamboo wall, the unmade bed only a memory.
    Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2021

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