How to Use unsecured in a Sentence

unsecured

adjective
  • The loan is unsecured and can be tapped over the course of three years.
    Hayden Field, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The home had been left unsecured and 23 firearms were stolen.
    Star Tribune, 1 May 2021
  • In many cases, the child got ahold of an unsecured gun in a home and fired.
    The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2023
  • Yet in most school shootings, the weapon is a firearm left unsecured in the home.
    Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The loans are made at the point of sale to finance a one-time, unsecured purchase.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2024
  • The mama bear then found the home, which had an unsecured crawl-space opening, to sleep for the winter.
    Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Police seized two guns which were unsecured in the home.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2022
  • The death was one of several in recent months where a child found an unsecured gun.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The gate could also unlock while the truck is in park, causing unsecured cargo in the truck bed to fly out onto the road.
    USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • At one point, the host of the tour opened a trapdoor in the floor for customers to descend a shaky, unsecured ladder into a dark hole.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • On the other hand, unsecured debt such as credit card debt may be wiped out.
    Jazmin Goodwin, CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
  • As a result, the Fed’s Main Street loans are mostly unsecured.
    George Selgin, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The wind could cause tree branches to fall and blow around unsecured objects, the weather service warned.
    Ana Alvarez Brinez, The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar. 2022
  • And then the sender can use that public key to encrypt their message, send it over the unsecured channel.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Wind gusts up to 40 mph, which could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects were listed as the main impact from the storm.
    Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The statement said three children had been left alone in a bedroom with an unsecured gun.
    NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The home under construction was unsecured and had no doors and no fence.
    Bill Rankin, ajc, 11 Nov. 2021
  • In January, Bloomberg reported that the cap on the unsecured bridge is 11.75%.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • There were no safes or gun locks in the bedroom, the weapons were completely unsecured, Leyton said.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Swiping in from the side of the screen to go back sounds a bit scary, since the Razr's display is unsecured on the sides thanks to the sliding, folding hinge mechanism.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2020
  • She was released on a $2,000 unsecured bond, the sheriff's office added.
    Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Banks agreed to a maximum rate of 9% on $4 billion of unsecured bonds backing that deal.
    Davide Scigliuzzo, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2022
  • Carter said in the past 18 months there have been eight shooting deaths involved children and unsecured handguns.
    Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • At the very bottom of priorities are unsecured claims, which is often the largest chunk of debt.
    Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Because of the weightless nature of space, any object that is unsecured or not tied down is likely to float off.
    Simrin Singh, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The two most common types of loans are secured and unsecured personal loans.
    Mia Taylor, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The dog’s owner told police that the animal escaped through an unsecured gate in his fenced back yard.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 27 May 2022
  • The children were in a bedroom in their grandparent's home, where a gun was left unsecured, police said.
    Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Several small, unsecured items fell and skittered across the cabin floor.
    Heather Steinberger, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The Westland case tragically resembles the 2021 deadly shooting at Oxford High School, in that it also was carried out by a boy who found his parents' unsecured weapon in the house — only that shooter used the gun to kill others, not himself.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2024

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