How to Use unscreened in a Sentence

unscreened

adjective
  • But for fans of his work, the chance to view his unscreened opus will be worth the wait.
    Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Szabo helped him retrieve the phone and then bypass security and board the flight with the unscreened phone.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The Comfort cared for 67 patients in its first two days, but wasn’t set up to receive unscreened patients, Mr. Raheem said.
    Frances Robles and Sheri Fink, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Goalie Jonathan Quick got beat on several unscreened shots and stopped only 17 of 25 overall.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • His bet was that a grass-roots campaign could lift him: dozens of town hall events, unscreened audience questions, direct contact with voters.
    New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Kelly imagined the program wouldn’t work at restaurants and busy stores — places where unscreened customers far outnumber screened employees, unless the plan was to test them too.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Airports are upset TSA will abandon staffing at exit lanes, which don't have checkpoints but ensure that unscreened people don't wander into the gate area.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 23 May 2017
  • Use mosquito netting when sleeping outdoors or in an unscreened structure and to protect babies when outdoors.
    Keira Wingate, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Letters arrive from all over the world - in Tagalog, French, German and Chinese (foreign-language letters are forwarded unscreened).
    Erika Mailman, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Letters arrive from all over the world — in Tagalog, French, German and Chinese (foreign-language letters are forwarded unscreened).
    Erika Mailman, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The image, of the refugee, Anas Modamani, with the chancellor, initially came to symbolize the German leader’s decision to let hundreds of thousands of unscreened migrants into Germany.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2017
  • The results at nine months postpartum showed that fewer mothers in the screening group experienced symptoms of major depression compared with unscreened mothers: 0.6% versus 2.5%.
    Susan Scutti, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Out-of-control children were dosed with adult tranquilizers, administered through unsterilized needles, while many who fell ill received transfusions of unscreened blood.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020

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