How to Use unaccounted in a Sentence

unaccounted

adjective
  • The hope was for Boyd to hit an unaccounted-for Burrow in the end zone.
    — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2022
  • And two huge docks, like the ones that washed up in 2012, are still unaccounted for.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Two people were unaccounted for at the time of the fire.
    — Claire Morgan, sacbee, 1 July 2018
  • Many troops were also unaccounted for at the end of the war.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 24 June 2020
  • More than 200 tons of toxic lead from the roof and spire was unaccounted for.
    — Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2020
  • In just the past week, at least nine people have died, and many more are unaccounted for.
    — Jamie Tarabay, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The blaze is out, but dozens of children are still unaccounted for.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
  • About 50 had moved out of town or were unaccounted for.
    — Anne M. Hamilton, courant.com, 14 July 2019
  • None of the workers who called 911 were aware Delph was unaccounted for.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • One of the volunteers — the one he was supposed to meet — was unaccounted for.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • What should Prescott do if a heavy blitz left an unaccounted-for threat?
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • One by one on Thursday, Creasey got word about the unaccounted pups from Dog Tag.
    — Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The house caught fire, and Ballard said the suspect as well as two women who were in the home were unaccounted for.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The remains are believed to be those of the homeowner, who was unaccounted for at the time of the blaze, troopers said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • There could be a lot of reasons for why the 1,475 children were unaccounted for, Ward says.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 29 May 2018
  • The rest were unaccounted for, giving rise to the 1,475 number.
    — Amy Harmon, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2018
  • As the death toll continues to rise, thousands were unaccounted for in the storm's wake.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The storms and mud flows have killed at least 15 people and more than 20 people are unaccounted for.
    — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The death toll in the collapse rose to 95 on Tuesday; 14 more people are unaccounted for.
    — Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 13 July 2021
  • At the time, the girls’ mother, 27-year-old Nicole Ashley Jackson, was thought to have been a victim of the fire but was unaccounted for.
    — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Things have gone unaccounted for and that’s a really hard part of this case.
    — Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
  • As of this writing, the death toll has reached 79, with others still unaccounted for.
    — Aaron Johnson, Fortune, 23 June 2017
  • For about three months, the marble was unaccounted for.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Gabi told me that the ship had drifted off course because of an unaccounted-for hundred-and-forty-pound mass.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The group wants to be part of the solution so that no relatives are unaccounted for.
    — Nienke Onneweer, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2021
  • Two of the lifeboats were empty and the fourth was reportedly unaccounted for.
    — Joseph Wilson, ajc, 16 Feb. 2022
  • At least 17 are still missing and some are unaccounted for.
    — Jeff Glor, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Those unaccounted for were in the Beach Road area, where the largest slide - about 600 feet wide - came down Wednesday afternoon, Olerud said.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The emergency worker at the scene said that at least 100 people were confirmed dead and that more remained unaccounted for.
    — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Two of them have been identified and three remain unaccounted for.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2023

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