How to Use unrefrigerated in a Sentence

unrefrigerated

adjective
  • Viewers are also not aware of the time span the pork sat unrefrigerated in the package or how long it was soaked in the soda.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Eat cut melon right away and throw away any unrefrigerated for four or more hours, the CDC said.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022
  • For more than two years, it’s been sitting on a shelf in our lab, unrefrigerated.
    Jeffrey Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2013
  • When closed, the water helps form an airtight seal, which keeps the butter fresh while the crock is left unrefrigerated.
    Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Note: Don't leave unrefrigerated food out for more than two hours.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Of 10 bodies found in the unrefrigerated garage at Swanson Funeral Home in Flint last year, one was not embalmed and had been there about six weeks.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Add salmon, flesh-side down, and let sit unrefrigerated for 30 minutes.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 16 Mar. 2021
  • There’s a little wooden flute, a model of the prison on Robben Island that held Nelson Mandela (the film’s humor has aged like unrefrigerated milk).
    Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • After a power outage, some food that has gone unrefrigerated must be eaten right away or get thrown out.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Keeping the product cold was a difficult task—if left unrefrigerated for too long, the vaccine would be useless.
    Paula Larsson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Swanson Funeral Home in Flint was closed in July after maggots were found on the floor of a garage where unrefrigerated bodies were stored.
    Fox News, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Our Wildfire Season From Hell could grow worse and widespread blackouts could have voters sweating in their homes amid the stink of rotting, unrefrigerated food.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • After all, the FDA states that prepared food should no longer be consumed after it has been left unrefrigerated for two hours, and the clock was ticking on an 82-degree afternoon on the day of one of the biggest sporting events of the year.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • This funeral home had been in the news after neighbors reported bodies left in unrefrigerated trucks on the street.
    National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • Boats harvest in huge quantities, and when fish holds fill up, sometimes the catch has to sit on deck, unrefrigerated, before it’s delivered to processors.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • Boats harvest in huge quantities, and when fish holds fill up, sometimes the catch has to sit on deck, unrefrigerated, before it’s delivered to processors.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • The smell is a noxious mix of cigarette smoke, unrefrigerated meat and kerosene from blowtorches singeing away dead animal hair.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Longer-lasting produce could be shipped by boat instead of flown to a retailer or transported in unrefrigerated trucks to reduce emissions.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • By Wednesday, the protests had spread, threatening supply chain delays and even produce carried in unrefrigerated trucks.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Remains of two unrefrigerated bodies were found in October 2015 in the funeral home's garage.
    CBS News, 12 July 2017
  • But the ad hoc smuggling system is fraught with delays and faulty equipment, as well as misjudgments about how long people can survive packed into often-unrefrigerated metal boxes in the Texas heat.
    Manny Fernandez, Nicholas Kulish and Susan Anasagasti, New York Times, 30 July 2017
  • The unrefrigerated bodies were in various states of decomposition, and police alleged the longest had been stored there since March.
    Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2023
  • His body went unrefrigerated for so long that the funeral director could not embalm his badly decomposed corpse.
    Frances Robles, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
  • More often, the unrefrigerated metal containers turn dangerously hot in the South Texas sun.
    Nicholas Kulish, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
  • In addition, unrefrigerated summer salads and fruits and vegetables that haven’t been properly cleaned as well as dairy products left sitting out too long can make people sick, Sokalski said.
    Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 20 June 2018
  • Officials said issues at the facility included unrefrigerated bodies stored for months, a strong stench of decomposition at the home and maggots in the garage.
    Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2017
  • The unrefrigerated bodies were in various states of decomposition when they were found, with police alleging the longest had been stored at the facility since March.
    Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The unrefrigerated bodies, at least one of which had been at the funeral home since March, were in various states of decomposition, and the petition noted three of the building’s four air conditioning units weren’t functional.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Flies buzz around overflowing trash and unrefrigerated food.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
  • The bacteria is most prevalent in the summer, when warmer weather and unrefrigerated foods create an ideal environment for salmonella to grow.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 1 July 2019

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