How To Use Unread In A Sentence

Sifting through the reports logged in the last couple of weeks, he came across a tale that had previously gone unread. EVERVILLE
Despite his ten billion years of preparation, he found himself to be unready.
He sat at the opposite side of the table from Nero, his expression unreadable due to the fact that his face was concealed by a smooth oval mask of flawless black glass. The Overload Protocol
The ineffable in poetry is almost always the unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
She was on her last unread volume and it's never a good idea to let this woman run out of books.

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Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two. Gravity's Rainbow
It seems odd that a poet so keen - perhaps even desperate - to reach across time, to provide us with such realism, should do so by writing wilfully unreadable poems.
Once spray painted, these meters are unreadable by Parking Enforcement Aides, meaning vehicles can't be ticketed as it's impossible to see if the meters were fed or not. The Parking Ticket Geek: Has The Parking Meter Revolt Begun?
So I sat with my books unread and listened to the loony for an hour or so.
Books are unreadable as soon as the light of the sun disappears behind the distant mountains. Times, Sunday Times
Roman watched the delicate colour flood her face, his dark gaze unreadable.
Foremost, the time/date stamp is completely unreadable. Dead Deer Walking?
Plus, when you're on the road, you can use WinFax Pro to retrieve unread faxes from your office computer.
It means that children develop sexually much earlier, " Stanhope says. "They are physically ready for sexual reproduction but mentally completely unready.
The knowledge that we have an unread message in our inbox can diminish our effective IQ by ten points. Times, Sunday Times
If you wait until you're totally ‘ready’ for marriage… well, I mean, lots of us are definitely unready for marriage, but is anybody totally ready?
It is true that, in bad weather, radar beams can be reflected off waves, causing false echoes or making the screen unreadable.
He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable.
I'm a trained paleographer (ancient documents in ancient languages on badly-preserved media), but that doesn't mean I actually PREFER to read the unreadable. A Big Close - Swampland - TIME.com
Despite the fact that it contains some interesting arguments about theatre's role in a society driven mad by the pursuit of wealth and power, it is, unfortunately, almost unreadable.
This book risks being unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
Shakespeare will remain unread, except by a very few people. The Theatre as a Desirable Cultural Force
You state you want to make your "personal information" unreadable.
It is widely agreed in publishing circles (on the basis of countless years of experience) that many of these manuscripts will be unreadable, unpublishable junk.
| News | Telegraph: The average Briton spends more than �4,000 on books during his or her lifetime but nearly half of them remain unread, a new study claims. Archive 2007-03-11
The reader will feel unread, uneducated, utterly exasperated with him or herself for missing the reference entirely.
H.E. Bates, in his book The Modern Short Story, first published in 1941, noted that even in the 1920s and '30s it was said that the short story was unwanted, unprinted, and unread.
Built in Glasgow in 1910, this vessel tramped her way around the globe for the next three decades, until she was requisitioned by an Admiralty hurriedly preparing for a war it was desperately unready to fight.
Michael's expression was unreadable, but the twist to his lips gave Marcus the impression that he had guessed what was wrong.
Some heralded his Soul Mountain as a great novel, but others found it unreadable.
The door was open, there were some books pilled up in his desk, along with messy papers filled with unreadable handwriting.
degausser" - an instrument that disrupts and realigns the tape's magnetic domains, scrambling the encoded information and rendering it permanently unreadable. Slate Magazine
It's not that hard to make money - and it is worth it if it frees you from a poisonous environment which is turning your output into unreadable junk which has no value.
With time running down, the commission said management must develop alternative plans for stabling horses, including opening talks with Delaware Park, if Laurel is unready for training.
The result of these techniques is to split spam words that make them unreadable by dictionary-based scanning tools.
After the death of Ethelred the Unready in 1016, the throne of England passed to Canute.
If you haven't learnt the craft and you produce a lot of unreadable garbage then people won't read you.
He stared at her for a moment, his expression unreadable. Disordered Minds
The man is so full of hatred, vitriol and self-loathing that it is all beginning to seep into his columns so much that they have become almost unreadable.
And dusty, unread books are a giveaway that some academics' offices are just dead space. Times, Sunday Times
He was known as Ethelred the Unready - not because of a lack of military preparation but because he was uncounselled or "unread". BBC News - Home
For adherents of some disciplines, using the resources allotted to them by academia to produce arcane, unread tomes may be fine, but this isn't doing feminism any good.
First, they began to lecture about, and write about, stuff that everyone else found pretty much unreadable and dead boring.
Beside it was a winding up petition and legal documents, boxed and unread, which had been left by the Treasury department.
This crude misconstruction of freedom lies at the heart of his party's unreadiness for government. Times, Sunday Times
Belinda risked a cautious glance at him, but met only an unreadable profile.
For some this is the greatest novel in the world. For others it is unreadable.
She faced the Gathering with an unreadable expression as R'shiel forced the thousand or more Sisters present to accept her reinstatement. TREASON KEEP
Books are unreadable as soon as the light of the sun disappears behind the distant mountains. Times, Sunday Times
While the backup tape existed (or so they said) it was apparently unreadable.
The pages were scrawled with unreadable shorthand, quotes he would later unsuccessfully attempt to decipher, let alone match to any of the news stories he was supposed to be working on.
One is that no matter what the book is, no matter how dumb or bad or painful or unreadable it may seem to you, there is going to be someone out there who will like it and get pleasure from it, and you need to respect that.
She glanced across the room and for a second, she fancied that she saw Emily Bronte, an unreadable expression on her face, nodding her approval.
Yet politicians place an immense value on these bulky unread tomes.
It means that children develop sexually much earlier, " Stanhope says. "They are physically ready for sexual reproduction but mentally completely unready.
The nurse replied, flipping through some paperwork and scribbling in that unreadable language of health care providers.
The monarch, better known as Aethelred the Unready due to his difficult reign, was known for using bands of Scandinavian mercenaries to carry out his bidding. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
I am not a political person, I cannot argue politics as I am unread.
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Among the 20th century authors whose works I find mostly unreadable are two who inspire many people with a devotion and respect which are, to me, quite inexplicable.
You have no doubt seen people whose signatures are nothing more than scribbles, yet even those unreadable scratch marks are valid.
Nasser did undertake land reform and other social programs like schools and clinics for the poor, but he spent the bulk of his energy constructing a bureaucratized security state, crushing out political parties, and assuring Washington that there were no other options in view of Egypt's social problems and unreadiness for democracy. Geoffrey Wawro: Nasser's Ghost: Time for Washington to Break the Stalemate in Egypt
His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready.
The auditor general criticized the government's apparent unreadiness to undertake the required recruitment and retention of qualified staff.
And if we fail to produce this constellation of past and present, the past will remain but a negative, unseen, unread, and unredeemable.
You can access the forums at one of two URLs: www. mexconnect.com/forums - in this case, you will NOT have the jump to first unread post feature - this access is the one that will now be used by google and other search engines to have information from the forums reflectedin their search results. Jump to first unread post
It's the attitudes toward the covers and the fiction, usually unread, that need to be both borne (because people are entitled to their opinions no matter how ill-formed,) and repudiated (when they have an ill-formed opinion, educate them about what you feel to be excellent material, don't join in with trashing one part of SFF, like cover treatments, just to try to promote another part.) [Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen
It is true that, in bad weather, radar beams can be reflected off waves, causing false echoes or making the screen unreadable.
Nova looked at Mr. Hamilton deadpan and shifted his eyes toward Jocelyn who was sitting at her desk with an unreadable look.
His various and exotic knowledge, complete although unready sympathies, and fine, full, discriminative flow of language, fit him out to be the best of talkers; so perhaps he is with some, not quite with me — proxime accessit, I should say. Memories and Portraits
Now he was formal and unreadable, the commander, once more.
The count on the machine reads 22 unread messages.
Six years ago Martin, aged 41, from Leigh, had low-self esteem, lacked confidence and was unready for employment.
In public, of course, they would fawn all over him as Canadians still do, and bring him cups of tea as he pours over the diaries of yet another dead American President, who he will then 'reinterpret' for the edification of the rest of the world in yet another heavy, unreadable book. Giles Slade: Conrad Black Wriggles Free
To be fair, adding them would probably have made the book unreadable and certainly unmanageable. The Times Literary Supplement
But he did say we were unready, and that was wrong.
He's not going to be a great society painter, his poetry is unread and his political and religious beliefs are out of step with the times. Times, Sunday Times
An unreadable expression crossed Tadeusz's face, then he said, `She's Katerina's double. THE LAST TEMPTATION
But at seven, eight, nine and ten, the unread book was only waiting for its turn in the pile that I would lug out the door twice a week.
The lady all unready, alackaday!" put in the Honourable Isabel, from behind a fan to hide imaginary blushes. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
The mystery is that Harold Bloom, for all his nearly perfect unreadability, today finds himself in that small but lucky elite of writers whose books sell without being actually read.
Although the public fear being a victim of identity fraud more than pickpocketing, mugging or even burglary, a large number still put themselves at risk by disposing of private information without first rendering it unreadable.
Once ‘ExploreZip.E’ gets onto a PC it emails itself out as an attachment in a reply to all read and unread emails in Microsoft Outlook with the following message.
He looked back at the woman for approval, but her face was unreadable.
Use staples or sticky tape because glue may make the form unreadable. The Sun
To be fair, adding them would probably have made the book unreadable and certainly unmanageable. The Times Literary Supplement
Harlow's Robert Halfon called Labour's approach "more Ethelred the Unready than Nixon in China" ? one of the day's more enigmatic remarks. Sketch: What if the bankers were on benefits?
But it's the language I never found out how to read… it's… unreadable to me.
She appropriated my unread newspaper and never returned it.
Odette said, “The ruins were profound and formful, but totally unreadable.” The Crickets Try to Organize Themselves Into Some Raucous Pentameter.
~His face was almost unreadable, but when Demi looked in his deep brown eyes she saw a pain that she hadn't seen in anyone else's eyes~ Xml's Blinklist.com
The painting is almost unreadable close up, but when we step back we admire its sheer powers of organisation. Times, Sunday Times
Other contributors have written in such a boring way that their work is virtually unreadable.
Please use staples or sticky tape as glue can make the form unreadable. The Sun
Two hundred unread emails shimmer at her fingertips. Times, Sunday Times
It's not just that so many copies of the free newspaper - I use the term loosely - are left unread in Limerick church porches.
An unreadable expression crossed Tadeusz's face, then he said, `She's Katerina's double. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Matter becomes the matter of words, which creates structure, makes legible, interprets, against a ground of unreadable silence.
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I returned the books to the library unread.
Angela's writing, however, unread and unreciprocated, enables her to express, understand, and survive her loneliness.
Use staples or sticky tape as some glue makes the forms unreadable. The Sun
Let's also see whether you try to make it as unreadable as you can, by jumbling up the paragraphing.
Sadly, the internet is boring tonight (aren't you all supposed to be entertaining me while I'm snowed in?) but I do have a good supply of coffee, tea, cocoa, catfood, and unread books, so I imagine things will be okay in the long run. A little drop of poison in the red red blood
Handwritten communications that are unreadable are annoying and worthless.
“I know you did,” Lucien said, his expression unreadable, his exhaustion-etched face still. Etched in Bone
He gazed out the window, an unread book resting on his lap.
Still, they seem as yet unready to take what they've got as far as they could, erring on the side of discretion.
Even more gnomic and less rewarding was those liner notes' unreadable amplification in his ‘novel’ - ah, remember when the term ‘novel’ conferred cachet?
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So why was I reading Kristof if I've already said he's unreadable?
It is laid down in German strategical textbooks that the time for making war is not when you have a political cause for it, but when your troops are ready and the enemy is unready; and that to strike the first blow is the best way to declare war. My Adventures as a Spy
In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
Naomi shouted, pushing Kazuki's bookbag filled with unfinished homework and unread textbooks back into his arms.
She wore the grey tunic of a naval captain, the rank badges so green with seaspray they were unreadable.
Any aspiring writer should be taken to the book depository and shown the tottering stacks that will remain unread and unreviewed, and likely tossed onto the FREE table at the paper.
The disorder of the gathering, manifest in the unready table as well as in the uncertain alliance among its members, resonates with the fleeting image of a bodhisattva that is unacknowledged and unseen.
The gentle way to read this is that Arnold is simply unready for a six-way, unscripted debate.
The world's libraries are already teeming with unread books - like literary landfill sites. Times, Sunday Times
Advance to next unread message in XX?
Many of the ambiguities are surely due to cultural unreadability: these texts are hardly solicitous towards the Western viewer.
There is an unreadiness for pain and death, and that contrasts so unhappily with the realism and hope the New Testament writers inculcated in their readers to prepare them to leave this world in peace when their time came.
His body was rigid, his gaze unmoving, fixed on some point on the wall behind the German, his expression entirely unreadable.
The painting is almost unreadable close up, but when we step back we admire its sheer powers of organisation. Times, Sunday Times
I work with tiny publishing houses, rejecting dozens of manuscripts every week on the basis of sheer unreadability.
In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
Physicians are often accused of having unreadable handwriting.
That novel, about two competing writers, one a vacuous success, the other a brilliant but unreadable failure, has a lot to say about the literary life, both the successful and unsuccessful kind.
The second is that their films are about the uneducated, unread, unWesternised and rural-based poor.
Some retailers have only grudgingly implemented it, in some cases by using a typeface which is small enough to be unreadable.
More likely, the L.A. Times doesn't really know much about what causes military units to be ready or unready - or, if it knows, it isn't really accurately telling us in this story.
Both promise to reflect a traffic - camera flash, making the license plate unreadable.
How better to ensure that Faulkner and Melville remain unread by the young than to invoke their names in praise of some new bore every week? A Reader's Manifesto
BTW, I very much enjoy your blog, and it has inspired me lately to go out and have the librarians dig up "Connections" from the vaults of the Buffalo, NY library, whence it had lain unread for quite some time, as there was not even a barcode for checking it out. Odd picture collection
All his unpublished writing should be destroyed unread.
To my growing collection of unread classics I add The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. All Goofed Up « So Many Books
Nathan's eyes were unreadable as they looked deep into hers.
His expression was unreadable beneath what was now almost a full beard.
The system automatically purges unread emails after two weeks.
But to me, a cookbook unused is like an unread book in that it's not fulfilling it's potential.
These problems do not make African Rock Art unreadable, however, and the writing is clear enough for nonspecialists to understand.
As the king unready to govern Simon Bartlett gave what could be called the performance of a lifetime, his lisping accentuating the monarch's worldly innocence.
I always want to take young writers to the book room and show them the mountains of books - unread, to say nothing of unreviewed.
He accessed the file - unreadable junk, nothing but hieroglyphics and squiggles on the screen.
I found it by turns, unreadable, incoherent, breathtakingly dull, or positively disturbing.
Scribbling an unreadable note that I attach to the fridge, I glance about for my wrist guards.
Let me know if it's unreadable in any browsers.
And, while he was busy practicing, a gift from his father, a book about Roosevelt's New Deal, went unread.
There's no contrast between the font color and the background, making the title unreadable on a shelf. Neth Space
An unreadable scrawl that took hours to decipher.
he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory
All his unpublished writing should be destroyed unread.
Publishers spend a fortune producing big, heavily staffed magazines, slap a CD on the cover and, normally, the CD secures the sale and the magazine is binned largely unread.
The letter received by the Olympics Committee was written in crayon with so many spelling and grammatical errors that it was nearly unreadable. Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies.
They are unreadable inscriptions, and as such convey the permanence and provisionality of all inscription.
Any paraphrase needs to take into account the limina of the as-yet-unread outcome we, as readers, are constructing from our expectations of how the dynamics will play out. Modality and Hamlet
Recently I had a satisfying clear-out of 400 videos and 300 books, about half of them unwatched or unread.
The sense of unreadability derives not just from the urban layout, or (it must be said) from the fact that I am foreign, but from the sheer scale and speed of redevelopment.
Famous American Poets have to be the weirdest breed ever, and no wonder: they are incredibly learned, yet totally unread, unbeloved by the masses, monetarily unrewarded and bound to die in obscurity.
I am persuasively convinced by the Endsleigh Hotelier that Gilead by Marilynne Robinson should not remain unread on my shelves any longer so that's in the mix. 52 entries from July 2006
There are always scores of unread emails. Times, Sunday Times
Over the years, I've been trying to find the right readers for my unread books.
And I ended up losing the Amstrad disk, which was some weird, unreadable proprietary brand anyway.
And this book is unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes glinted with unreadable emotion, his cheeks stained with dried tears.
Use staples or sticky tape as some glue makes the forms unreadable. The Sun
Fascinating discoveries from second hand bookshops and chainstore threefertwos alike pile up on the shelves, taunting you with your laziness and their unreadness; novels that have been read are no better, merely taking up space as you slowly forget their plot and characters, destined to either be lugged from house to house as you move, or given away as fodder for Oxfam in its quest to become the Tesco of secondhand bookselling. August « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
Equally interesting is a sermon of Jonathan's grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, written in lettering so tiny that it's unreadable even with a 5x magnifier.
In its heyday, the Review enjoyed a reputation as an obtuse and nearly unreadable but authoritative publication put together by a sometimes raffish staff.
The man held up his warrant card, even though the laser reflections from shiny clear plastic made it quite unreadable.
Please use staples or sticky tape as glue can make the form unreadable. The Sun
But the Aston has its own annoying points, like the pretentiously styled dashboard on which the buttons are fiddly and the digital displays are unreadable in direct sunlight.
While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there.
Athelstane's nickname was the Unready - not coward or lazy, but unready, and slow to act, even in the name of his Saxon heritage.
She was not as uneducated and unread as we have always been told.
And this book is unreadable. Times, Sunday Times
This media contains unknown or unreadable data. Do you want to overwrite?
The secret surfing programs also add a layer of encryption, ensuring that messages are scrambled in transit and are thus unreadable.
`I'm ready," said Katrina, feeling distinctly unready, feeling distinctly unsure about the wisdom of what she was doing. FINAL RESORT
Although his previous sailing experience was limited, his boat unready and the electronic gadgetry of his own design unfinished and untested, Crowhurst had managed to persuade everyone to regard him as a serious contender.
Sometimes this may even result in unreadable output.
It's not that hard to make money - and it is worth it if it frees you from a poisonous environment which is turning your output into unreadable junk which has no value.
The file shredder's mission is to scramble files before deletion, making them garbled and unreadable.
You have 72 unread messages. Times, Sunday Times
Curiosity filling his mind, he opened the new, unread book.
Each segment of the show is also introduced with a title screen sporting a colorful background and unreadable, untranslated text.
Or, even if its true that the only information given to the testees were download counts, it's "social influence" that makes me see contents of email folders that have black "unread" numbers associated with them more than I see contents of other folders. I Coulda Been a Contender, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
This can have the effect of leaving letters unread, the opposite of the desired wish of the writer.
There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been re - duced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
Use staples or sticky tape because glue may make the form unreadable. The Sun
However, to protect small electricity users, the government will retain full control over the power industry in areas deemed unready for open competition.
This might be understood as a defeatist response to the ideology of ‘difficulty’ and ‘unreadability’, air-brushed by the oxygen of privacy and the pleasing ether of hermeticism.
He has served papers upon the Crown in which his address has been either obscured or certainly made unreadable.
The media was full of news of drugs, the fragging of officers and of unready forces around the world.
she cursed her unready tongue
unreadability" of her narrative, as it is manifested in Mathilda's alienation from the poetry she cites and the literary world it embodies as personified in Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
The LA Times looks at the process of “slabbing,” that is, encasing comics in plastic slabs, rendering them thus unreadable, and clucks its tongue: The only way you can be sure it’s mint
… Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
We could have got married to ‘legitimise’ it but at 16, we were both very young and unready for bringing up a family.
For this reason it seems possible that the somewhat fearsome reputation of Ulysses, the popular idea of its lofty unreadability, owes as much to its erratic attention to image as to the more widely famous difficulty of its language.

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