How to Use unsold in a Sentence

unsold

adjective
  • The bulk of it is due to the unsold stock of Yeezy footwear.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • In the first round, only 8% of land parcels were unsold.
    Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The unsold portion of the potato crop was stored there.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The kingdom stored some oil in Egypt and was forced to let unsold crude sit in tankers along its coasts.
    Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2020
  • The risk of overpriced and unsold tickets is borne by the seller.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In 2017, the Sawhneys found themselves with two tons of unsold fruit.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The Pret Foundation also donates unsold food at the end of the day to those in need.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Auto dealers, stuck with lots full of unsold cars, did the same with car keys.
    Paul Wiseman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • And according to the report, there is still room for growth with 77% of clubs still unsold.
    Maury Brown, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Unseen and unsold, his art fills more and more of their living space.
    Lynn Ischay, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Video footage from the scene showed bodies strewn on the ground amid upturned tables and piles of unsold clothes.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Since then, the fate of $1.3 billion worth of the unsold Yeezys, a lucrative sneaker line launched with Ye, has been up in the air.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, oregonlive, 12 May 2023
  • Maresh, sitting on tons of unsold prunes at the time, was more than amenable to Erath’s proposal.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
  • About 3,000 tickets remained unsold in the middle of the week, so the school made those available to students.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Perhaps not, and the meal goes unsold and the economist goes hungry.
    Matthew Zeitlin, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Thirty-seven of the 52 homes remain unsold, one is in contract and one is due to close in March.
    Jessica Dailey, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Macy’s joins a growing list of stores stuck with a glut of unsold products.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
  • More than 50% had been sold, while half of the unsold examples had been relisted.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The only unsold item was a Jacobean chair, the seat of the catalog seller.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The longer vehicles remain unsold, the better the deals, Drury said.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • For some years, the school still had towering stacks of unsold yearbooks.
    Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 11 July 2018
  • So whatever's unsold now can be held for a good while and not need to be sold at clearance prices.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • At one-point last week nearly 25% of the tickets for the Las Vegas Raiders game were unsold or up for resale.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Today she can be found in a park trying to sell or even barter her store’s unsold garments.
    Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • To put it another way, 11% of the tags went unsold, most all in the latest time periods.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Unbeknownst to him, a shipment of unsold copies of Cold Fact made its way to Australia.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Both dropped on BlockBar on April 11 and remain unsold.
    Elin McCoy and bloomberg, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The merch tent was swarmed by fans before, during, and after her set, with not a single item left unsold.
    Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This is reward for eliminating the risk of an unsold work.
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • With each passing month, buyers are gaining the upper hand as the inventory of unsold listings grows.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024

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