How to Use unsaid in a Sentence

unsaid

adjective
  • I think that some things are better left unsaid.
  • Each thing said seems to skim above a deep pool of the unsaid.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
  • Left unsaid: whose idea the meeting was in the first place.
    Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 26 May 2018
  • Left unsaid: That the rest of the world more or less agreed with Wenner.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This one took him to the top, and there was nothing left unsaid.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • This dance between the said and the unsaid, the metaphors of secrets is a marker of their work.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The unsaid part is, what would the governments want to say about that?
    WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • But perhaps the most notable part of the deal went unsaid.
    Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2021
  • What went unsaid was that there was likely to be a lot of tumult in the search.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • But there’s so much blank space that’s unfilled and so many things left unsaid.
    August Brown, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
  • Words were said that would have been better left unsaid.
    cleveland, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The strength of the movie became everything that went unsaid.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The fact that so much of what was once left unsaid or ignored is now coming out of the shadows.
    Anna Silman, The Cut, 8 Jan. 2018
  • No longer could the sides hide behind coded quotes and words left unsaid.
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • For years, the unsaid thing, in the field itself, had been the influence that culture has on the psyche.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Dean hasn't reached out, and he hasn't been reached out to, so there's just a lot of unsaid, unhealthy stuff going on.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 July 2017
  • But the teacher's words can never be unsaid, Agee-Bell said.
    Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The crimes of men with men were proclaimed in courts of justice; the crimes of women with women were left unsaid.
    Longreads, 8 May 2018
  • Left unsaid was the effect, if any, of being a younger sibling.
    Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
  • But left unsaid is what, exactly, needs to get done—or why.
    vanityfair.com, 15 Feb. 2017
  • What if Lightfoot could say his unsaid goodbye in a dance?
    The New Yorker, 19 June 2022
  • The memoir's only flaw is in what is written but what is left unsaid.
    Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
  • And as Lindsay might say, such things are best left unsaid, as one sips coffee in the drawing room.
    Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
  • During the past two years, Concepcion has made dozens and dozens of pieces for his project about things left unsaid.
    Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
  • What was left unsaid was that Kennedy could have adopted this view in the Wisconsin case but did not.
    David G. Savage, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
  • How giving up sanctions will get Iran to agree to a better deal is left unsaid.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • There was nothing left unsaid and nothing left on the table.
    NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • What was unsaid, un-shown, unknown was the pull, the gravitational pull of the piece.
    Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2019
  • There is always, of course, plenty left unsaid with Williams.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 9 July 2016
  • Caillat pauses for a moment to let the circumstances swirling around her mind remain unsaid.
    Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023

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