How to Use unmarked in a Sentence
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The agents handcuffed Salinas and led him to the back seat of one of the unmarked cars.
— Washington Post, 3 June 2022 -
Her goal: to find Hurston’s unmarked grave and mark it.
— Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022 -
Now, with the church gone, the cemetery rests in an unmarked clump of trees in the middle of a field.
— Sarah Hume, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022 -
They are snatched from the streets and thrown into unmarked cars.
— Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 -
The news of unmarked graves in Canada also spurred the U.S. to action.
— Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023 -
In the driveway, Wilma trots back to her unmarked sedan and slides behind the wheel.
— Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021 -
Some are believed to have been buried in unmarked graves.
— WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022 -
Just be sure to bring plenty of light for the walk back as the trail is a bit overgrown and unmarked.
— Kyle Ellison, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Much like the rest of the city, the home was supposedly built right on top of unmarked graves.
— Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023 -
Who was in all those countless rows of unmarked graves in Quang Tri?
— George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022 -
Holmes drove around in an unmarked car for the better part of two hours on his gang unit shift.
— Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024 -
Two medics prop Nichols' slumped body up against the unmarked police car.
— Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2023 -
An unmarked van pulled up, and a group of men in green, wearing ski masks, ran out.
— New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 -
In between the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one is this weird little stretch of unmarked time.
— Helena Fitzgerald, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021 -
But there was nothing to tie him to an unmarked grave in a small Michigan town.
— John Carlisle, Freep.com, 28 May 2023 -
Women and infants died and were buried in unmarked graves.
— Joanna Biggs, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Experts have uncovered a total of 66 unmarked graves since the start of the search.
— Tonya Simpson, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2022 -
The Taylors were buried in unmarked graves in the 19th century.
— Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022 -
The stop was just an unmarked pullout along U.S. 89 south of Page, Arizona.
— Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024 -
Small, who is leading the search for unmarked graves at Red Cloud, first arrived there in May.
— NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022 -
Together, the two men cleared brush and righted some of the unmarked headstones.
— Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024 -
While most ski routes are unmarked, trail maps can be found online.
— Katie Jackson, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2022 -
Many children were not returned home and were buried in unmarked graves.
— Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 23 July 2022 -
His men roved the city in unmarked cars, wearing plainclothes.
— Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024 -
This will be the fourth spacewalk for Dyson, who will wear a suit with red stripes, and the first for Dominick, who will wear an unmarked suit.
— Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024 -
The skulls of the Black Philadelphians were probably taken from unmarked graves at the almshouse.
— Remy Tumin, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022 -
Those woods were full of bodies, thousands of unmarked graves.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022 -
For decades, Ware’s remains lay in an unmarked grave in a forest on the side of an Alabama road.
— Char Adams, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023 -
To get into the Private Office, customers press a black security screen outside an unmarked building and take a secure elevator to the top floor.
— Robert Frank, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024 -
More often than not, animal research happens behind closed, locked, unmarked doors.
— Celia Ford, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024
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