How to Use unaccounted in a Sentence

unaccounted

adjective
  • The hope was for Boyd to hit an unaccounted-for Burrow in the end zone.
    Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2022
  • One of the volunteers — the one he was supposed to meet — was unaccounted for.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • What should Prescott do if a heavy blitz left an unaccounted-for threat?
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • One by one on Thursday, Creasey got word about the unaccounted pups from Dog Tag.
    Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The remains are believed to be those of the homeowner, who was unaccounted for at the time of the blaze, troopers said.
    Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • As the death toll continues to rise, thousands were unaccounted for in the storm's wake.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The death toll in the collapse rose to 95 on Tuesday; 14 more people are unaccounted for.
    Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 13 July 2021
  • At the time, the girls’ mother, 27-year-old Nicole Ashley Jackson, was thought to have been a victim of the fire but was unaccounted for.
    Rosana Hughes, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Things have gone unaccounted for and that’s a really hard part of this case.
    Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
  • For about three months, the marble was unaccounted for.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Gabi told me that the ship had drifted off course because of an unaccounted-for hundred-and-forty-pound mass.
    Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The group wants to be part of the solution so that no relatives are unaccounted for.
    Nienke Onneweer, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2021
  • Two of the lifeboats were empty and the fourth was reportedly unaccounted for.
    Joseph Wilson, ajc, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Those unaccounted for were in the Beach Road area, where the largest slide - about 600 feet wide - came down Wednesday afternoon, Olerud said.
    CBS News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The plane and its six crew members remain unaccounted for.
    New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • About 160 people were still unaccounted for Friday amid fears that the death toll of at least four could go much higher.
    Mae Anderson, USA TODAY, 26 June 2021
  • Many of the occupants of the convoy are still unaccounted for -- one week later.
    Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister and David McKenzie, CNN, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Jubas also said that one of the bullets fired at Spencer remains unaccounted for.
    Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But there are still many buildings to comb through, many people still unaccounted for.
    Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
  • At one point, the school had 84 students unaccounted for, so this has greatly improved, Holmes said.
    Lynn Kutter, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2022
  • During a ship-wide head count, the carrier crew learned one sailor was unaccounted for.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • So there was a lot of space in there, and there was a lot of time that was unaccounted for in terms of Terminator’s presence in the minds of the audience and the folks who love the franchise.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But there were still people unaccounted for, and cars abandoned throughout the city.
    John Leland, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • No other suspects in the incident remained at large, but the gun used in the shooting was unaccounted for.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2022
  • The girl who died was unaccounted for until late morning.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • More than 150 people are unaccounted for in the collapse.
    NBC News, 27 June 2021
  • The governor, though, expects the death toll to rise, as dozens of people remain unaccounted for.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Now Gary and Brad are among the 150 people unaccounted for six days after part of the condo building came crashing down.
    al, 29 June 2021
  • The emergency worker at the scene said that at least 100 people were confirmed dead and that more remained unaccounted for.
    Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Two of them have been identified and three remain unaccounted for.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2023

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