How to Use unrecorded in a Sentence

unrecorded

adjective
  • Few could read or write, and in much of the world, most lives went unrecorded.
    Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
  • Of course, are the stories that have been covered up, left unrecorded, and those that haven’t even been told.
    Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 16 May 2018
  • The House approved the compromise with an unrecorded voice vote and no speeches on the floor.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean the vibe has gone completely unrecorded.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2022
  • And Coleman in turn sat in, unrecorded alas, with Coltrane’s mighty quartet during that time.
    Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Still, that’s a small fraction of the total number because most sink or wash up in remote areas and are unrecorded.
    Washington Post, 16 June 2019
  • The plural suggests that more transplants may have gone unrecorded.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Of those who died, many were buried in communal graves, sometimes unmarked and unrecorded.
    Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • So that’s how the initial thought of peaches and the warm August sun gives way to the everyday: the nuts and bolts of the unrecorded, unfilmed, undocumented life.
    Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • India suffered the highest toll of any country in the world, according to the report released Thursday, but most of the deaths have gone unrecorded.
    Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 5 May 2022
  • In such a market, the gender of the writer who composed a script could easily have remained as unknown and unrecorded as his—or her—name.
    Phyllis Rackin, The Atlantic, 8 June 2019
  • Though Vicens’ opinion of the finished product is unrecorded, the family owned it for 16 years.
    Kenyon Gradert, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In fact, the subject is so massive that Goodstein — who never lets a fact go unrecorded — is writing three volumes.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
  • Amy Winehouse had puzzled out lyrics to an unrecorded song alongside Ginsberg’s lines.
    New York Times, 7 May 2022
  • Fungi break rocks, nourish plants, seed clouds, cloak our skin and pack our guts, a mostly hidden and unrecorded world living alongside us and within us.
    Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
  • And milder symptoms mean kids often don’t get tested and then their infections—and role in any subsequent spread—go unrecorded.
    Megan Molteni, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This frog is one of many species that could be imperiled by this activity, much of which is taking place in the Andes, home to many endemic and as-yet unrecorded species.
    José Vieira, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
  • The show will include new orchestral arrangements of four unrecorded Thile songs.
    Michael Norman, cleveland, 28 May 2021
  • Aid workers caution that the real number is likely much higher as the deaths of many children here, like those of Hassan’s children, go unrecorded.
    Scott McWhinnie, CNN, 7 July 2022
  • In Trump’s first two months alone, by one estimate, more than 500 executives and foreign leaders made unrecorded visits to the White House.
    Nick Tabor, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Add the global average for the rest of the world not designated by Cambridge, and natural gas, and a few unrecorded outliers like waste coal now pump around 80% juice that mints all Bitcoin.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • In India historically, in some states, a huge number of deaths go unrecorded, or are recorded without a cause.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Residents of the area at the time said the three-story townhouses would be too tall and too close to the cemetery, and that unrecorded burials near or outside the cemetery boundaries might be unearthed by construction.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
  • In part because so many Roma deaths went unrecorded, many families don’t know what happened to their relatives.
    Rachael Bunyan, Time, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The lidar data revealed 134 previously unrecorded settlements, despite the fact that this area has been well studied in the past.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 May 2022
  • Are there specific components that don’t have to wait until month end to start, such as a search for unrecorded liabilities?
    Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Several shootings have gone unrecorded by OPD officers who either hadn’t been assigned cameras, had ones that weren’t working or failed to turn them on.
    Tess Sheets, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2019
  • Seurat died at age 31, never having sold a painting, and the show does several interesting things with a life that went largely unrecorded.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Deep time makes a mockery of the plantations’ blinkered order; under the ancient canopy, the master’s stride falters and the voices of African hunters and Amerindian priests resound from the depths of unrecorded millenniums.
    New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • But, of course, there were many more women whose work assisting a husband went unrecorded because it was seen as merely an extension of his labors—unless, like the Wife of Bath, they were widowed and took over the running of the business.
    Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023

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