How to Use unnamed in a Sentence

unnamed

adjective
  • The San Diego Zoo announced the birth of the still-unnamed cubs in a March 28 news release.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The zoo says the mom, Zuri, gave birth on Aug. 31 to the as-yet-unnamed male Masai giraffe calf.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Marchant has said he was urged to start the coalition by unnamed people close to Trump.
    Alexandra Berzon, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
  • Reuters attributed the news of the offer to unnamed sources.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
  • That same spring, Fe mated with an unnamed male and hatched her 40th chick.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The unnamed bystander then stepped in to defend the injured man, police said.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The reports are based on comments from unnamed sources.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Many of those who make up the unnamed will have been killed in the Holocaust of bullets, their bodies left to rot or dumped in mass graves.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The writer is unnamed in the indictment, which states the writer then sold Henley’s works to Horowitz in 2005.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 July 2022
  • The May 27 launch failed shortly after liftoff, while the unnamed rocket was still in first stage flight over the Yellow Sea.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
  • They are rarely asked to leave, an unnamed photo agency source told the paper.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Credit Suisse’s Israel desk in Zurich, was unnamed in the case.
    Margot Patrick, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The legal document claims that the unnamed male celebrity raped her while Combs and the woman watched.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • An unnamed bystander grabbed George and removed him from the scene, according to deputies.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The level of wealth maintained by unnamed oil tycoons is more than most of us can even fathom.
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Nevada had the oldest record of the four states, from an unnamed tropical system in 1906.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The unnamed sources said Biden would take a couple of days to assess the situation.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
  • The suspect owns the boat where the teen was held captive since Dec. 13, according to Pix 11, which cited unnamed sources.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The unnamed feline rescued from the walls in Preston might not find the same fame as the original Grumpy Cat, but the pet certainly has the look.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • That means, additional, still-unnamed alums will crash the party at some point for a chance to find love.
    Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The unnamed complainant and her family moved out of the motor home park in August.
    Tat Bellamy-Walker, NBC News, 8 July 2022
  • The girls' mother, who remains unnamed, confirmed that the shoes belonged to one of her daughters.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 31 July 2022
  • The complaint states that Simon's girlfriend, who is unnamed, then took a knife from her purse and stabbed Alba.
    Sonia Moghe, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • The frame story follows an unnamed narrator who washes up at a halfway house in the desert called the Palace.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Stoke's approach is to test the second stage first and then move on to developing the first stage of its as-yet-unnamed rocket.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The unnamed supervisor OK'd the release of Williams rather than arrest him on a gun charge.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The lender and borrower, who shall remain unnamed, were unknown both to me and each other.
    Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The unnamed woman who perished had worked at the company for 20 years, and had shut herself in the bathroom as the fire swept through the village.
    Eleni Giokos, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Trump initially suggested the unnamed air traffic controller handling the flight was to blame.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The unnamed 61-year-old woman used an array of wigs and disguises to impersonate male and female applicants, the U.K. Home Office said.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025

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