How to Use unsolved in a Sentence

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• The 24-year-old’s death went unsolved for more than three decades.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• The case went unsolved for years, with no solid leads to the identity of the gunmen.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Add this to the growing list of IRS mishaps and unsolved mysteries.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• But the question of who ordered the killing remains unsolved.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• In the nearly 35 years that followed, Justin’s death went unsolved.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• Six years later, the case remains unsolved and no one has been charged.
  — Refinery29 Australia Team, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2023
• But the intense scrutiny on the unsolved slayings sparked thousands of tips to the FBI.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
• In 2007, Williamson again spoke about the case remaining unsolved.
  — Alexis Stevens The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 24 Mar. 2023
• His mother has long asked for the unsolved case to be re-examined.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Davis said the sheriff’s office would be patrolling the trail as long as the case remains unsolved.
  — Maria Morales, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2023
• Her unsolved homicide has been like a hovering storm cloud over the city for years.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Five decades later, the murder of the young nun and high school teacher remains unsolved.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• But half a year since the sabotage took place, the mystery remains unsolved.
  — WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
• Now his grieving wife is pleading for justice in the aftermath of the unsolved crime.
  — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2022
• Saturday was the 33rd anniversary of the unsolved, late-night heist.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Mar. 2023
• The unsolved case of a girl who disappeared near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1956.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• In this case, the mystery of time travel will likely remain unsolved for quite some…time.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• The disputes that erupt among them often lead to killings, but the vast majority of deaths go unsolved.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• There are around a dozen posts each day in the group, often unsolved cases from NamUs with pictures.
  — Deidre Olsen, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps this is what the internet needs: a very low-stakes unsolved mystery.
  — WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
• No customer wants to show up at a solution center and leave with the problem still unsolved.
  — Akin Akinpelu, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Shakur was killed in the 1996 shooting, which went unsolved until last month when Davis was arrested.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 13 Oct. 2023
• Before the arrest, the Gilgo Beach case remained unsolved for over a decade after the women’s bodies were found.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
• But if the British hadn’t started the fire, who had? For nearly 250 years, the mystery of how the fire started has gone unsolved—and, for the most part, unexamined.
  — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for two decades following a series of unsolved deaths.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2022
• Authorities are asking for the public’s help in the unsolved killing of a man shot to death in Birmingham more than four months ago.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 10 Aug. 2023
• This meant a suspect’s DNA had to be in the system for police to genetically match them to unsolved crimes.
  — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• Lizzie was acquitted of the crime in 1893, but the mystery of the deaths still remains unsolved—giving the property a rather eerie energy.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 28 Mar. 2023
• Connelly poignantly shows the cold case unit’s new homicide archive where the murder books of the unsolved cases are stored.
  — Sun Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2022
• Her twin sister died by suicide, and her brother was murdered in 2012, a case that remains unsolved.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024