How to Use unsorted in a Sentence

unsorted

adjective

• Most fruit is unsorted and field run, which means it’s not all perfect.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 19 Sep. 2017
• Each of these little blocks will correspond to a name on the unsorted list, and the single block on the left represents the target name.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2020
• The tours seemed less accessories for motorists than rambling day trips through the unsorted mind of the republic.
  — Scott Borchert, The Atlantic, 22 June 2021
• Relevant files in the city archives of Berlin were missing, unsorted, or sealed.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• In Pinter, the greatest dramatic weight lies in what’s unspoken, in the darkness of unsorted feelings.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• Postal workers in Michigan and Iowa described seeing entire pallets of boxes go unsorted and sit outdoors in the rain or summer heat.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• But over the past few years Yadrovo has been receiving vast floods of untreated and unsorted garbage from the burgeoning metropolis of Moscow, about 100 miles away.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
• City Council staff members put the figure at $40 million, and said costs would be offset by savings on fuel and fees for transporting unsorted garbage to faraway landfills.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• One is filled with floor-to-ceiling stacks of unsorted documents, fraying maps, and government documents.
  — Dominic Nahr, National Geographic, 3 Nov. 2016
• One is filled with floor-to-ceiling stacks of unsorted documents, fraying maps, and government documents.
  — National Geographic, 3 Nov. 2016
• The unsorted material created an environmental hazard that spewed toxins into the air and soil, the state said.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• Faulkner concentrated on reading and writing during work hours, often sitting on sacks of unsorted mail.
  — David Beard, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
• At Recology’s recycling center on a San Francisco pier, huge mounds of unsorted paper, plastic, aluminum and glass lie on warehouse floors.
  — Elena Shao, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• In a bid to curb its own rampant pollution, China has clamped down on the import of unsorted paper and plastics and intends to close down outdated industrial mills used to process foreign scrap into reusable raw materials.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2018
• Yet there is one way that quantum computing might be able to assist big data: by searching very large, unsorted data sets — for example, a phone directory in which the names are arranged randomly instead of alphabetically.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
• In Philadelphia, where more than 235 postal workers have tested positive, local media outlets reported unsorted mail piling up in postal facilities and carriers unable to complete routes even after working extra hours.
  — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• Near-impossible standards In past months, China has banned 24 kinds of solid waste, including unsorted paper, certain textile materials and low-grade polyethylene terephthalate often used in plastic bottles.
  — Megan Janetsky, azcentral, 4 July 2018

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024