How to Use unselected in a Sentence

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• But he wasn’t called up to majors in either season, and went unselected by the rest of MLB in back-to-back Rule 5 drafts the past two winters.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• Reed went unselected and was sent to the Athletics as the player to be named later in the Jurickson Profar trade.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2020
• Leibrandt, son of former major-league pitcher Charlie, went unselected in last month’s Rule 5 draft.
  — Matt Gelb, Philly.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Partially due to injury, Curry went unselected in the 2013 draft.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 8 Feb. 2018
• The team expects Price, who went unselected by Seattle in the expansion draft more because of his contract than his uncertain injury status, to be ready for the start of the regular season in mid-October.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2021
• After college, Belcher entered the NFL draft but went unselected.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2022
• The present study confirmed this relationship in an unselected student sample (N = 439).
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2014
• After a 5-2 start, the Roadrunners lost three of their final four games, qualifying for bowl eligibility at 6-5 but going unselected.
  — Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• Only the position of science minister remains unselected — a position that saw Rouhani get into a legislative dogfight in parliament over in 2014.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 8 Aug. 2017
• Choices are choices; the selected necessitates the unselected.
  — Andrew Blackman, WSJ, 11 June 2017

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