How to Use unrecovered in a Sentence

unrecovered

adjective

• In this silent, eerie scene, the soldier’s body still lay unrecovered.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
• How the Berry Brothers had been called in from Yolo County to drag the river but how the bodies remained unrecovered.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• The three unrecovered vehicles are believed to be in the colors Brittnay Blue and Grey.
  — Navya Gupta, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2022
• Earth’s oceans are littered with hundreds of thousands of unrecovered mines dating back as far as World War I.
  — Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
• The patent holder will then be left to eat whatever unrecovered costs remain.
  — WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
• However, a motive in the triple homicide remains unclear, as does why Matthew’s remains went unrecovered for so long.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 15 May 2018
• The shovels had nothing to do with hijacking; this was a cache of unrecovered firefighting equipment.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Sep. 2020
• And in Hawaii, where lung transplants aren’t offered so donor lungs often go unrecovered, Legacy of Life is testing a new incubator to preserve the organs for shipping long distances.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
• And experts are growing increasingly concerned that there may be more at stake than unrecovered money.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2021
• Thousands more are unrecovered from battlefields and former POW camps.
  — Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2019
• During the trial, the state offered tower-location data gleaned from the two unrecovered cellphones that appeared to show similar movements toward and away from the remote area of New Orleans East where the girl's body was found.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• In the event of total loss or an unrecovered theft, the insurance company is only obligated to pay replacement value for your car.
  — Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2018
• At the high end, one estimate has pegged the potential global gains in unrecovered taxes at over $500 billion annually.
  — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Hundreds of thousands of unrecovered mines remain around Europe’s coastlines, according to Caput—they’re a dangerous legacy of both World Wars.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 4 Aug. 2020
• While state officials say employers won’t have to cover unemployment benefits paid to fraudsters, taxpayers will still be on the hook for unrecovered funds.
  — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2021
• Hedaya was the only victim left unrecovered when firefighters concluded their search for bodies Friday as, nearly a month after the collapse, the stories-high debris pile was cleared so that the building's entire foundation was exposed.
  — NBC News, 22 July 2021
• Tanks hidden underwater, on the other hand, often went unrecovered.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
• Utilities warned companies could risk losing millions of dollars in unrecovered investments, particularly for the continued operation and maintenance of pollution controls.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024