How to Use uncollected in a Sentence

uncollected

adjective

• The pair went to the house, where Bass showed her the uncollected package and mail.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2017
• In parts of the city, trash went uncollected for more than a month.
  — Anya Groner, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
• About 80% of rents on the port side of the wharf went uncollected in April, and tourist spots struggle with business down as much as 90%.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2020
• Trash covers the ground, the result of years of uncollected garbage.
  — Saeed Al-Batati and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
• As of last week, nearly ten thousand tons of garbage sat uncollected on the streets—but only in half of the city.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• For weeks, where there should have been hope ahead, the stench of uncollected trash hung over city neighborhoods.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2022
• Cracking down on wealthy tax cheats For years, the IRS was starved for resources, so a lot of taxes went uncollected.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 24 Mar. 2024
• Trash piling up in the streets goes uncollected, breeding swarms of flies and emitting a pungent stench.
  — Scott Smith, Fox News, 17 May 2018
• In Paris, small groups of protesters played a game of cat and mouse with the police, knocking over trash cans and setting fire to uncollected garbage.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• But piles of uncollected garbage, a problem that has plagued the city for years, have recently drawn them into Rome’s streets.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• With labor unions opposed to the bill, uncollected trash has piled up in Paris and other cities while garbage workers strike.
  — Elaine Ganley, ajc, 13 Mar. 2023
• City Hall says thousands of tons of waste remains uncollected after a two-week strike.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Other tolls go uncollected because the state cannot match a license plate with an address.
  — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• This is also the same IRS that Democrats now want to infuse with $80 billion more to chase a fanciful amount of uncollected taxes.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The letter said the bathrooms stink, the dining area fails legal standards and uncollected garbage lies rotting around bins.
  — Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
• On the other side is a welter of docks, cranes, favelas, and apartment blocks, marked with more gang tags and festering with uncollected garbage.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Too many hands came back covered with uncollected pollen.
  — Jeremy Bagott, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2019
• Baltimore is not like the Italian cities of Rome and Naples, which have struggled with mountains of uncollected trash in recent years.
  — Catherine Rentz, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The tough-love resolve to give him only food and gas meant that a cellphone would be traded for drugs, or that takeout food already paid for would go uncollected.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• On Wednesday, some 7,600 metric tons of garbage remained uncollected on the street, according to Paris city hall.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• A few blocks away, working-class Cubans live in decaying apartments on streets clogged by uncollected trash.
  — NBC News, 9 May 2017
• Accounts from the city suggest the true toll is much higher, with bodies lying uncollected.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Mar. 2022
• The bump in profits stems mostly from a decline in the amount of money banks set aside to cover potential uncollected loans and loan payments.
  — Cleveland Business Journal, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021
• With piles of uncollected garbage lining the French capital’s once-pristine boulevards, observers say the optics could not be worse — for both Charles and Macron.
  — Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
• Benn’s garbage, on the other hand, remains uncollected.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• Among other highlights, the lawsuit said her review of one unnamed franchisee showed the city was owed more than $3 million in uncollected fees.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
• In Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, coffins were fashioned from cardboard boxes as bodies were left uncollected.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 4 July 2020
• One study cited in the report found that as much as 77 percent of all restitution ordered goes uncollected.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022
• The city estimates that means $9 million owed is still uncollected.
  — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Dropping that fee resulted in $72 million in uncollected debt being wiped off the county’s books.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024