How to Use unstructured in a Sentence

unstructured

adjective
  • Her life is very unstructured.
  • Unstructured play time is important for children.
  • But Take Note This bag is a bit on the flimsy and unstructured side.
    Kelsey Kunik, Rd, Parents, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The Sharks played a largely unstructured game for the first 20 minutes.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The Spurs’ kids thrived in the unstructured system coach Gregg Popovich unleashed in the bubble.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The switch to working at home for many people has led to unstructured work days.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Even an unstructured let's-just-run-around-high-on-pizza-and-cake-and-yelling-in-the basement works for these kids.
    Nicole Blades, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The groups are unstructured and open to all ages, genders and types of eating issues.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • And there is a kind of learning that comes from creative, unstructured time.
    David G. Allan, CNN, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The only drawback is the unstructured heel counter, which can cause some heel lift if the laces aren’t pulled extra tight.
    Cory Smith, Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a fine line, though, between wild and unstructured.
    Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 9 June 2019
  • As expected, all of the proteins were unstructured at the start.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2021
  • If unstructured time is the antithesis of work, then a nap is the ultimate form of leisure.
    Curbed, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Research shows that the freedom of unstructured time in open space helps kids learn to focus.
    Conor Williams, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Their unstructured lifestyle was sort of odd, but most of the parents just figured, That’s New York.
    Bridget Read, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2021
  • On Fridays, members of the Clevers Lab are allowed to work on unstructured projects.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
  • One of the few drawbacks to the afternoon was indeed the length of the walk--not the overall mileage as much as the long stints of what felt like unstructured walking time.
    Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • His days outside the prison walls are unstructured, quite the opposite of running a prison.
    Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The players didn’t like the coaching regime or unstructured system last year.
    Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Buck Mason, one of our favorite menswear brands, built an unstructured jacket that feels closer to a shirt in the best way.
    Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 28 June 2023
  • Working from home tends to be a loose, unstructured affair.
    Barbara Brody, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • The problem at the core of his academic life is unstructured downtime.
    Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Egyptian squash is dynamic and unstructured, with out-of-nowhere drop shots and deceptive flicks of the wrist.
    David Segal, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
  • An unstructured environment like Phoenix was the worst place for him.
    Ben Golliver, SI.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • This kept things fresh while still allowing plenty of unstructured time to kick back and relax at the resort.
    Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
  • Furthermore, the show sees two ‘duelists’ go head-to-head in an unstructured debate.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 30 July 2024
  • Over 80% of the data in business is in unstructured formats like text, images, audio and video.
    Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The unstructured static hiss of white noise is one example.
    Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2020
  • And a knee-length silk dress in horizontal sections fluttered by unstructured in the evening breeze.
    Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • But 80% to 90% of business data is unstructured in the form of documents or even video and audio, according to analyst estimates.
    Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024

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