How to Use undelivered in a Sentence

undelivered

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• In the 15 days that the strike lasted, 80% of UPS shipments went undelivered.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
• Sometimes, Madanagopal said, his mail goes undelivered for four or five months.
  — Dallas News, 6 July 2022
• Years later, in 2016, SSA tried to contact the son, but sent the notice to an old address, and the letter was returned undelivered.
  — Kathryn Joyce, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
• There was also one undelivered package found in the unit.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 29 Jan. 2020
• This has allowed undelivered mail to pile up in post offices.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2020
• Others in the wine trade scoffed at Sherry-Lehmann’s claims that undelivered wine had been held up by tariff issues.
  — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• The workers carried sacks of undelivered cash and checks up to the company’s safe on the second floor when all the sudden, they were met by nine armed men wearing masks.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• Boeing hopes the move will reduce its inventory of undelivered Max jets, which built up while the planes were grounded around the world.
  — David Koenig, ajc, 15 Sep. 2022
• In 2020, with the Max fleet still grounded after the crashes, Boeing disclosed that debris had been in the fuel tanks of undelivered jets.
  — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• The 855 women were assigned to handle three years’ worth of undelivered letters and packages to and from U.S. soldiers.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 13 Jan. 2023
• Earlier this week, trucks filled with undelivered aid lined the road in Arish, the nearest Egyptian city.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• Customers will still be able to pick up undelivered packages.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Customers will still be able to pick up undelivered packages.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• The prospects for Trump's promised but still-undelivered peace plan were already looking dim, Shapiro admitted.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• Boeing faces its own stiff challenge to get roughly 450 as-yet-undelivered Maxs out of mothballs and ready for customers.
  — Author: Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Trains refused to stop at some cities where depots overflowed with undelivered goods.
  — Ernest Freeberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020
• Every year, the IRS has millions of dollars in tax refunds that go undelivered or unclaimed.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 28 May 2023
• An aging rocker decides to change the course of his life after receiving a long-undelivered letter from the late John Lennon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• There was also an undelivered package in the storage unit.
  — NBC News, 30 Jan. 2020
• The next morning, additional calls to Salvino's phone went straight to voicemail, and texts were marked as undelivered.
  — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2022
• Mail is lost, undelivered—or even returned, sometimes with a valid postmark and address.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Other notifications about the court process sent to her in the mail were returned undelivered.
  — ProPublica, 7 Apr. 2022
• Despite the higher volume, DeJoy’s move was to slash overtime, even if mail was left undelivered.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• When these women joined the war effort, they were given the herculean task of sorting through and delivering the three-year backlog of undelivered mail.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
• Aleksey Germash, 53, allegedly had pieces of undelivered mail in at his home, car and work locker.
  — Ellie Kaufman, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
• Cruelly, installation of sprinklers, long held up by undelivered parts, was to resume later on the day of the fire.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• As undelivered planes have stacked up, the aircraft maker has slowed production.
  — David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• During the search, deputies also found thousands of pieces of unopened mail, including packages that went undelivered, Buchanan said.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 29 Aug. 2022
• Thirteen movies in the feel-good mystery franchise have aired since 2013, feeding us a steady stream of poignant stories surrounding undelivered mail at the Dead Letter Office.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2024
• The company’s phone number is disconnected, and emails to the firm were returned undelivered.
  — Addison Lathers, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024