How To Use Unwritten In A Sentence

Otherwise, knotholers, who named their vantage point after the knotholes in old wooden outfield fences through which fans could sneak peeks, enforce their own unwritten code of conduct. Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play
Whatever happened to that unwritten rule about not prying into each others personal lives?
There seems to be an unwritten law that football songs should be comic or humorous, or at least not too serious.
That is the unwritten agreement. Times, Sunday Times
Citi's actions weren't illegal, but broke an unwritten understanding not to whipsaw markets or take advantage of the thin summer trading.

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No mere endpapers, they continue, in their unwrittenness, to evoke the narrator's traumatized mind. The Times Literary Supplement
It was founded in order to fight the unwritten law on the job market that discriminates against older employees.
You will of course be buying a ticket for a show that is, as yet, unwritten! The Sun
A tradition of oral literature has been crucial to the survival of the Hopi Way because the language has remained unwritten until recent years.
By an unwritten rule, they avoided controversy for the sake of good fellowship.
What indeed - there's nothing in journalism's unwritten Geneva Convention that condones such behaviour.
A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
Universal have agreed to pay ￡2.5 million for Grisham's next, as yet unwritten, novel.
Although they're mostly unwritten, there is a canon of gym etiquette that all gym-goers should recognize.
Correspondingly, plants have been used through unwritten and written history as a source of medicines, fragrances, spices, and colourants.
That seems logical but there is a catch: the social code in the officers' mess of a regiment such as the Grenadier Guards is unwritten and so nebulous that it takes an insider to make any sense of it.
The unwritten but universally accepted industry standard for turnover time is 15 minutes.
A few older buildings in sight, such as the palace of the maharajas, respect the ancient unwritten law that no building should be higher than one of Kerala's millions of coconut palms.
The only breach of this unwritten rule of protocol I've noticed occurred at the Buckingham Palace pop concert.
Unwritten or implied agreements and customs can also be effective.
Lastly, for the errors brought in from false or uncertain history, what is all the legend of fictitious miracles in the lives of the saints; and all the histories of apparitions and ghosts alleged by the doctors of the Roman Church, to make good their doctrines of hell and purgatory, the power of exorcism, and other doctrines which have no warrant, neither in reason nor Scripture; as also all those traditions which they call the unwritten word of God; but old wives 'fables? Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
That poses no problem for Catholic faith, since it freely acknowledges that revelation is handed on to us in both written and unwritten form.
Common Law was unwritten and represented the custom of the people.
Although the loftiest, sweetest music of the soul is yet unwritten, its faint articulations interblend with the jangling discords of life, as the chimes of distant bells float through the roar of winds and waves, and chant to imperilled hearts the songs of hope and gladness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
It is a show about potential catastrophe and a lesson in how effortlessly any of us can slip from an unwritten code of human ethics into the self-perpetuating intoxication of brutality.
After all, there must be some unwritten rule saying that war to a musical accompaniment - no matter how suitably doom-laden and apocalyptic that music may be - is simply not in very good taste.
Club rugby in New Zealand is played at breathtaking pace, and there is an unwritten code that anyone taking cheap shots will be dealt with by the opposition, and not by the referee.
This is the giant unwritten headline of our post-industrial economy.
This pledge is sometimes referred to as the unwritten "fourth article" of the Treaty, and is said to protect and recognise not only major western religions, but also Maori custom. Archive 2009-04-01
The distraught father killed him, and used the unwritten law as his defense.
It's unlikely that Israel will give such formal -- such a formal -- agreement but Israel has been indicating to the United States it will stop all what it calls the targeting of ticking bombs, those Palestinians are on their way to carry out attacks, and would agree to give that kind of unwritten commitment to the United States. CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2003
And here, in the unforgetable crypts of man's unwritten history, unthinkable and unrealizable, like passages of nightmare or impossible adventures of lunacy, he encountered the monsters created of man's first morality that ever since have vexed him into the spinning of fantasies to elude them or do battle with them. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
Most members of the media follow a code - written or unwritten - that the method and location of suicide is not described, displayed or photographed.
For though the Jews have such a cabala (called gematry) as this which Mr. White describes; yet that cabala which is argued in this instance, and which our Saviour reproves in the pharisees by the name of tradition, is quite another thing, and among the Jewish writers known by the name of the "unwritten, or oral law;" which they say was delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, and by him conveyed to Aaron and Joshua, and the elders, and successively delivered down from one age to another; and at last by Rabbi Jehudah compiled into one volume which they call Mishna, or deute'rosis. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10.
As you have guessed, I am passionate about New Zealand's largely unwritten political history.
But that couldn't be, any more than a written thing could be unwritten, or a wished-for thing unwished. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Universal have agreed to pay ￡2.5 million for Grisham's next, as yet unwritten, novel.
At the meeting it emerged that French trawlermen and netters, who usually set nets in one place and return to retrieve them, had an unwritten agreement to avoid fishing together in an ‘imaginary box’ around 30 miles long.
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Ten hours to Inverness, farthest of all - details he learned for an unwritten tale.
Smiling proudly, Mayor Metwinger straightened his purple mayoral robes and gulped in a big breath, prepar - ing to ad-lib the traditionally long but unwritten kender marriage ceremony. Stalling
Three decades ago, the club shirt was part of an unwritten code that could distinguish hardened men wanting to fight, from genuine fans. Times, Sunday Times
Britain has an unwritten constitution, and the United States has a written constitution.
There's an unwritten code of silence when it comes to sexual assault in the military.
We have an unwritten understanding that nobody leaves before five o'clock.
Had the clanship feeling been universally as strong as in the Chickerel family, the fable of the well-bonded fagot might have remained unwritten. The Hand of Ethelberta
When an immortal grants a longer life to a mortal, temporarily bestowing our powers to them, there is no written or unwritten rule that states the Childe must stay with their Sire.
I've come to the conclusion that they are invoking an unwritten rule, a rule with broad application and ramifications.
Cajun French, for the most part, is a spoken, unwritten language filled with colloquialisms and slang.
Many toxicological studies have been based on the unwritten and unquestioned assumption that all that mattered was the elemental concentration.
And, after all, she only voiced the general opinion of the school, which, by an unwritten law, had established a calm imperturbation as the height of good breeding. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
There's an unwritten rule that you don't wear jeans to work.
We will come to that in the later arguments but this is all in the realm of the unwritten law.
He thought of Walt Whitman, of course, but he found this power in short supply in American art; he found its history largely unwritten.
When audiences buy into the trailer of a studio horror flick, they accept the unwritten disclaimer stating that nothing original will happen, yet some well-worked scares are there for the taking.
Non-landowning villagers had unwritten but well-understood rights to graze livestock, gather firewood, medicinal plants and mushrooms. The Times Literary Supplement
They sinned against the unwritten rules of this meeting.
We have an unwritten understanding that nobody leaves before five o'clock.
The enormity of Cash's legacy can be assessed by the fact that though the Man in Black wrote two autobiographies, much of his story was left unwritten.
* The Onion's AV Club does their regular comics round-up, this time looking at Luba, Potter's Field, the Unwritten and Optic Nerve, to name but a few. Everyone’s A Critic: A roundup of comic book reviews and thinkpieces | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture. WeLove-music
Two thirds of the world's languages are still unwritten, and there are only several hundred different writing systems.
That was right after the BCS blithely ignored two of its own unwritten rules - a team must win its conference championship; the title game shouldn't be a rematch of a regular-season game - so Alabama and LSU could meet again in Super Dome. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Because the language was unique and unwritten, it would prove impossible for the Japanese to decipher.
Is there an unwritten code for bloggers that I am unaware of?
They are based on loyalty to friends, distrust of authority, a history that is largely unwritten and a rigorous sense of fair play.
A recent book, London Lore by Steve Roud, uncovers many of these early tales, rules and unwritten codes that set out and ritualise the correct way to get along in London. Telegraph Blogs
With the fragmentation of extended Indian families and tribes, the unwritten knowledge of elders that was once a counterweight to Anglo hegemony is in danger of being lost.
common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States
He failed to get the story and the book remains unwritten. Times, Sunday Times
the letter remained unwritten and unsent
But while the Latin American writer has used magic realism to give epic form to the unwritten history of his nation, his ambitions are more personal and private.
All the harmonics, pizzicati, portamenti, added ornaments, all that unwritten stuff adds up to an absolutely FANTASTIC performance. Mandolin Cafe News
Tough times take a tough hombre who can roll with the punches and fight back when necessary, and isn't afraid of violating some unwritten code by informing us of his opponent's flaws.
You're familiar with the old written law, 'Love your friend, ' and its unwritten companion, 'Hate your enemy.'
Without unwritten rules civilized life would be impossible.
A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
As a journalist, she is under no written or unwritten rules of restraint to aid or abet a felony.
God knows that the implicit creedalism (or what they themselves referred to as the unwritten orthodoxies. . .) of the "fundamentalist atheist" Humanists at the Unitarian Church of Montreal were enforce through informal means (e.g. peer pressure *my* theological views feel far from welcome) and indeed formal means such as threatening make with expulsion for complaining about the "informal" peer pressure such as labeling Creation Day as a cult. . . Anti-Atheism Ad in UU World That Criticizes Bishop Spong
This is the giant unwritten headline of our post-industrial economy.
rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times
The couch and footstool were upholstered in black, cream and grey fabric, breaking an unwritten rule of interior design - don't mix stripes and florals.
(and in Ru 1: 1, and Es 1: 1), it refers to the unwritten history which was before the mind of the writer. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It is an unwritten code that wherever possible churches with antiquity would be preserved.
A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
Doctrines of Hell, and purgatory, the power of Exorcisme, and other Doctrines which have no warrant, neither in Reason, nor Scripture; as also all those Traditions which they call the unwritten Word of God; but old Wives Fables? Leviathan
Some researchers talk about a psychological contract that we have with our employer which includes the unspoken and unwritten expectations that employers and employees have of each other.
It's a flagrant breach of the unwritten rules, but who's to stop her?
Diné had the advantages of being naturally complex and virtually unwritten: the first, incomplete Diné alphabet was developed in the early 20th century.
After the heat and "drouth" we could have loitered in that pleasant shade; but we were due at the Red Lilies "second night out"; and it being one of the unwritten laws of a "nigger-hunt" to keep appointments -- "the other chaps worrying a bit if you don't turn up" -- soon after four o'clock we were out in the blazing heat again, following the river now along its higher flood-bank through grassy plains and open forest land. We of the Never-Never
A corporation must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is unconscionable within the meaning of the unwritten law - section 51AB.
What was the deal written - agreements like McLane-Ocampo, Bucareli agrements - in Warren G. HardingCalvin Coolidge periodes - and unwritten? AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
The custom society grows the custom, tradition and unwritten law.
It is a levy assessed in an unwritten manner and generally executed with precision in order to diminish the offender and enrich the supplier.
Your future is an unwritten book. The Sun
My finals remain unwritten, my morning shower un-taken because I am mesmerized by the fascinating case of Priya Venkatesan. Archive 2008-05-01
Pressure off, us became me and her stood leaning into the rain, our futures mostly unwritten but with the outline shading done. THE MANANA MAN
But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcated disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil, — before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word. Strivings of the Negro People
You absorb the mostly unwritten and untaught rules for what to call people as you exit toddlerhood and proceed toward adulthood.
Britain has an unwritten constitution, and the United States has a written constitution.
One of the unwritten requirements for referees is comic timing.
Nevertheless, unwritten local etiquette is to keep a respectable distance from the topless bathers and sunbakers as the beaches are large and not crowded.
Although ‘liaisons’ are not officially designated, the role is part of an honored, unwritten pact going back more than 100 years.
There are unwritten conventions governing professional bar conduct.
Trevor-Roper further chips away at the Scots 'story of their past by showing that the supposedly ancient -- and, alas, unwritten -- Scottish constitution, creating an elective monarchy, was cooked up by the widely admired Scottish Latinist George Buchanan in the 16th century. Checkered Tartan
Correspondingly, plants have been used through unwritten and written history as a source of medicines, fragrances, spices, and colourants.
Not an untutored brawl, mind you, but a fair fight between very skillful gentlemen, carried out in strict accordance with rules, both written and unwritten.
In the case of convents in university towns, especially Paris and the Roman Curia (Avignon, afterwards Rome) the nomination belonged to the general or the general chapter; and there appears to have been an unwritten law that at Cambridge, Louvain, and other universities the priorship should be filled by the bachelor who in the course of the year was to take his degree as Master in Divinity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
We will come to that in the later arguments but this is all in the realm of the unwritten law.
He broke an unwritten rule for Aberdeen players in being unabashed about his fanaticism for Celtic during his Dumbarton upbringing.
As a society within a society, the Gitanos of Spain have maintained their art as a connection to an unwritten past and a way to share it with others.
It may be to this very fact that a certain unwritten ‘law’ is owed: this law prefers that melodic notes dissonant to the prevailing harmony should be resolved by step.
Our famously unwritten constitution does not draw precise lines between the virtuous leak and the unvirtuous one, but most of us can distinguish one from the other when we see them.
We kind of follow certain unwritten rulling that indicates to us that directors who didn't - for one reason or another - made a little splash on the intellect mark, may not be that worthy. GreenCine Daily: John Flynn, 1932 - 2007.
There are unwritten conventions governing professional bar conduct.
Now, Vertigo's latest ongoings are poised to join those legendary ranks with The Unwritten, American Vampire, Sweet Tooth and iZombie. DC Comics releases its entire Comic-Con '10 schedule
It was an unwritten rule in Lancashire that no active manufacturers could become magistrates.
A little bendiness is apparently part of the unwritten rules of the game. George Weiner: Crowdsourced Philanthropy: If You Ain't Cheatin', You Ain't Tryin'
Universal have agreed to pay ￡2.5 million for Grisham's next, as yet unwritten, novel.
The dishes remained unwashed; the verse unwritten. Times, Sunday Times
This is an unwritten constitution.
Tough times take a tough hombre who can roll with the punches and fight back when necessary, and isn't afraid of violating some unwritten code by informing us of his opponent's flaws.
As a society within a society, the Gitanos of Spain have maintained their art as a connection to an unwritten past and a way to share it with others.
Regardless of whether or not is is true it does point to one of the unwritten laws of football: local derbies are a bit special.
A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea.
Is there some unwritten requirement that when you go to a gig, if you don't have a T-shirt of a band performing, you have to wear another one with some other band in the ‘scene’ on it?
He finished his other routine hygiene rituals, meticulously following some unwritten agenda.
I think it has a beautiful resolution and, unlike the case with a traditional short story, the limited word length often forces some of these elements to remain unwritten, that is, hinted at or implied in the written storyline. A PERFECT ENVELOPE • by Maria H. McDonald
It represents in its main lines the thought not only of Speusippus and Xenocrates but also, as far as we can discern, that of Plato in the agrapha dogmata or “unwritten doctrines” (Ross, pp. 142-53; Merlan, pp. 11-33; Krämer, pp. 1-2; Gaiser with frags.). Dictionary of the History of Ideas
(Lord ARTHUR and I frequently do not speak for a week unless someone is present) -- but I do not think these things should be made public, and besides, it is an unwritten law amongst "smart" people to avoid subjects that "chafe" -- which sounds like an anachronism -- whatever that means! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892
The craft still had an ample amount of fuel but it was an unwritten law of astronautics that fuel should never be wasted if there was some other way to reach the desired destination-and by this manoeuvre Laughlin was avoiding the use of the retropulsion. Division 3
If a national bank was, as is undeniable, repudiated by the framers of the Constitution as incompatible with the rights of the States and the liberties of the people; if from the beginning it has been regarded by large portions of our citizens as coming in direct collision with that great and vital amendment of the Constitution which declares that all powers not conferred by that instrument on the General Government are reserved to the States and to the people; if it has been viewed by them as the first great step in the march of latitudinous construction, which unchecked would render that sacred instrument of as little value as an unwritten constitution, dependent, as it would alone be, for its meaning on the interested interpretation of a dominant party, and affording no security to the rights of the minority -- if such is undeniably the case, what rational grounds could have been conceived for anticipating aught but determined opposition to such an institution at the present day. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
Lastly, for the errors brought in from false or uncertain history, what is all the legend of fictitious miracles in the lives of the saints; and all the histories of apparitions and ghosts alleged by the doctors of the Roman Church, to make good their doctrines of hell and purgatory, the power of exorcism, and other doctrines which have no warrant, neither in reason nor Scripture; as also all those traditions which they call the unwritten word of Leviathan
i dont know what im gonna wear im gonna buy tickets for phil for his 21st to see either lagwagon or unwritten law and mxpx - i'll let him decide i dont mind going to either ... why are they called polka dots??? hmmm .... i've seen it all befores - i've known it all along Anasthesia Diary Entry
Correspondingly, plants have been used through unwritten and written history as a source of medicines, fragrances, spices, and colourants.
The Navajo's unwritten credo of adaptation is reflected in their weaving, from the use of wool obtained from sheep introduced by the Spanish, to the current use of both hand-spun and commercial wools.
In the unwritten code of the game, the players are to assume a certain level of risk and to take care of issues themselves without any outside help.
Britain has an unwritten constitution, and the United States has a written constitution.
The current, unwritten, interpretation is that to qualify, individuals should have investments in shares or property amounting to a minimum of 3,500 leva.
That is hardly possible with an uncodified and in part unwritten constitution. Times, Sunday Times
For Massie, history is full of unlit corners and unwritten characters.
Are you saying that it's history and therefore it's an unwritten history, we need to know all the truth and therefore that justifies this personal exposure?
The unwritten rules of senior communal living practically mandate aquariums and in colder climes, aviaries, but few match the encased coral reef at Glenridge, stocked and maintained by a nearby marine research institute. Shock of Gray
Universal have agreed to pay ￡2.5 million for Grisham's next, as yet unwritten, novel.
Still, most catchers feel compelled to observe the unwritten rule about not talking to a pitcher when he has a no-hitter or perfect game working.
It's a day to remember that keeping one half of humankind under life-long subjugation through unwritten laws and warped thinking is a waste of talent and human resource.
Sinhalese law was unwritten, and there was great flexibility both in its application and in judicial procedure.
Frontline police have been telling the Herald since last year that there was an unwritten message not to target gangs and drug labs because dealing with the labs was difficult and made crime statistics look bad.
Cajun French, for the most part, is a spoken, unwritten language filled with colloquialisms and slang.
They only saw their duty to resist oppression, to protect the weak, to vindicate the profound but unwritten Law of Nations, to testify to truth and justice and mercy among men.
The book has been welcomed in the local media as a contribution to the largely unwritten history of Dubai's stunning transformation over the last three decades into a hip city of skyscrapers, commerce and tourism.
Goar (Euchologium, Venice, 1730, 175) says that the Greeks of his day were allowed by an unwritten law to eat fish, eggs, snails, and such-like viands on xerophagy days. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
In all her works Judaism appears as the more human culture, since “The Hebrew laws are not only more human-friendly and more attuned to human psychology, but even the unwritten [i.e., oral] customs demonstrate tenderness and considerateness.” Lazarus, Nahida Ruth.
Unlike its American and Jamaican counterpart, the history of Black Britain's musical heritage has so far gone unwritten.
Well, that is until I am lynched by my fellow passengers for not obeying the unwritten rules of travel on the London Underground.
Before 6pm, I'd feel I was transgressing an unwritten rule.
The world of the street child and juvenile pickpocket was organized, in part, around an unwritten, oral culture.
I suspect that, if I get to look back on it at the end of the decade, this will seem to have been a year for gathering breath and gaining strength, a pause in the unwritten plan.
It's an unwritten rule of weddings that you don't upstage the bride on her big day.
They could hardly have done otherwise after the unwritten agreement between players and umpires more or less to ignore the idea. Times, Sunday Times
Universal have agreed to pay ￡2.5 million for Grisham's next, as yet unwritten, novel.
That was right after the BCS blithely ignored two of its own unwritten rules - a team must win its conference championship; the title game shouldn't be a rematch of a regular-season game - so Alabama and LSU could meet again in Super Dome. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
There's an unwritten rule that you don't wear jeans to work.
There's an unwritten rule that you don't wear jeans to work.
The unwritten societal ‘obligation’ that women must stay at home and men must come first in education, for instance, has left women with a lack of knowledge and thus deprived them of their rights.
It was an unwritten law that Bridget, for she was most comely, was always the apple of every unmarried man's eye.
They obey the one unwritten rule that binds them all—no talking.
The organisation's evidence condemned the unwritten principles that seem to underpin the draft bill.
Indeed, this rationale would render the unwritten doctrine of Marbury v. Madison itself invalid in cases involving the 21st Amendment.
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Fiction is Truer than Truth « Write Anything
Her prose is sharply on-point when she trains her unforgiving eye on human foibles at large, skewering scholarly attempts to legitimize the series ( "You Hold Your Gun Like a Sissy Girl: Firearms and Anxious Masculinity in BtVs" was one memorable academic paper title); the unwritten rules of "netiquette"; and the persistent irritation of online "trolls. Jennifer Ouellette: A Buffy Fan Gets a Life... Online
Is there an unwritten media rule to promote the dumbed-down and pretentious culture of ‘real life’ TV shows at the expense of our indigenous culture?
Although official segregation was outlawed in the last century, in many respects it still exists in an unwritten, unspoken form.
Citi's actions weren't illegal, but broke an unwritten understanding not to whipsaw markets or take advantage of the thin summer trading.
There seems to be an unwritten law that football songs should be comic or humorous, or at least not too serious.
The unwritten guiding premise of governance today is majoritarian supremacy in the form of Hindu theocracy.
Through Lebanon's unwritten National Pact of 1943, political power was apportioned between Christians and Muslims.

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