How to Use unaccompanied in a Sentence

unaccompanied

adjective
  • All we've had from him is a lot of talk unaccompanied by any real effort to solve the problem.
  • Unaccompanied children are not allowed in the store.
  • He attended the party unaccompanied.
  • The unaccompanied bag is believed to have been transferred to a Pan Am flight to London and then to Flight 103.
    CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
  • So a lot of times people only see the one that pulls out or at our heart, and that is the unaccompanied kids and the family.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 8 May 2021
  • The amount of unaccompanied minors also saw a 20% increase from this month to last.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 June 2022
  • Any unaccompanied minors in the park after 4pm will be asked to leave.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Any unaccompanied children under age 15 will be asked to leave the park.
    Craig Webb, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
  • But that is not the case for thousands of unaccompanied minors.
    Renata Brito, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Rumors that unaccompanied minors were not being sent back to Reynosa had spread around the camp.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The youngest passenger is a 3-year-old, and more than 40 are unaccompanied minors.
    Barbara Surk and Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Schonbek got to visit the house six months later, unaccompanied, and Gins’s dirty laundry remained in the bedroom, her medicines on the kitchen counter.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The spike has partly been driven by an increase in the ranks of unaccompanied minors making the perilous sea journey to Italy.
    Alvise Armellini, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2023
  • While the refugees fleeing Ukraine include a number of unaccompanied children, the boy seen in the viral video wasn’t traveling by himself, as the posts claim.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
  • On his first unaccompanied journey, he is robbed by a man, and then meets the energetic 12-year-old Jola.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 July 2023
  • The striker streaked unaccompanied into the box, taking an unguarded shot to clinch the victory for the Union.
    Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Ramstein Air Base in Germany is one of the major sites where unaccompanied Afghan children were housed in recent weeks.
    Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2021
  • There was a chance that two unaccompanied children would not be admitted to the circus, but the powers who ruled the world decreed that the usher did not pay any attention to us.
    The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The number of unaccompanied minors picked up at the US southern border likely hit an all-time high in July.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
  • In the past three months, a record number of unaccompanied children have entered U.S. custody along the southern border.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 7 June 2021
  • And it’s the Department of Health and Human Services that houses unaccompanied minors, many of whom are teenagers.
    Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The children were brought to Michigan as unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan who fled along with refugees after the Taliban seized power last year in their native land.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The irony was that Mayorkas, who had witnessed the surge in unaccompanied minors in 2014, as Deputy Secretary, was perhaps the least convenient fall guy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The next year, Johnson and his younger sister, who were then 11 and 10, were sent to a boarding school in England, traveling there each term unaccompanied by their parents.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
  • What happens to unaccompanied minors when things don't go as planned?
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors have arrived in the United States, often seeking work.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The agency said that, in March, unaccompanied children spent an average of 115 hours in CBP custody.
    Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2021
  • Then the judge will call on the rest, and spend most of the time hearing from unaccompanied minors who couldn't obtain legal representation.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 3 June 2024
  • Kids, who cannot be held in custody, were treated as unaccompanied minors and transferred to shelters.
    Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Delta paused its unaccompanied minors program during the airline’s meltdown in the wake of the global tech outage that started late last week.
    Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN, 25 July 2024

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