How to Use unmarked in a Sentence

unmarked

adjective
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  • The agents handcuffed Salinas and led him to the back seat of one of the unmarked cars.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • Her goal: to find Hurston’s unmarked grave and mark it.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Now, with the church gone, the cemetery rests in an unmarked clump of trees in the middle of a field.
    — Sarah Hume, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
  • They are snatched from the streets and thrown into unmarked cars.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • The news of unmarked graves in Canada also spurred the U.S. to action.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
  • In the driveway, Wilma trots back to her unmarked sedan and slides behind the wheel.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Some are believed to have been buried in unmarked graves.
    — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Just be sure to bring plenty of light for the walk back as the trail is a bit overgrown and unmarked.
    — Kyle Ellison, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Much like the rest of the city, the home was supposedly built right on top of unmarked graves.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 June 2023
  • Who was in all those countless rows of unmarked graves in Quang Tri?
    — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Holmes drove around in an unmarked car for the better part of two hours on his gang unit shift.
    — Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Two medics prop Nichols' slumped body up against the unmarked police car.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • An unmarked van pulled up, and a group of men in green, wearing ski masks, ran out.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In between the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one is this weird little stretch of unmarked time.
    — Helena Fitzgerald, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But there was nothing to tie him to an unmarked grave in a small Michigan town.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 28 May 2023
  • The Gothic writer died in 1849, so poor that he was buried in an unmarked grave.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Women and infants died and were buried in unmarked graves.
    — Joanna Biggs, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Experts have uncovered a total of 66 unmarked graves since the start of the search.
    — Tonya Simpson, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The Taylors were buried in unmarked graves in the 19th century.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The stop was just an unmarked pullout along U.S. 89 south of Page, Arizona.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
  • Small, who is leading the search for unmarked graves at Red Cloud, first arrived there in May.
    — NBC news, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Together, the two men cleared brush and righted some of the unmarked headstones.
    — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • While most ski routes are unmarked, trail maps can be found online.
    — Katie Jackson, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Many children were not returned home and were buried in unmarked graves.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
  • His men roved the city in unmarked cars, wearing plainclothes.
    — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • This will be the fourth spacewalk for Dyson, who will wear a suit with red stripes, and the first for Dominick, who will wear an unmarked suit.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
  • The skulls of the Black Philadelphians were probably taken from unmarked graves at the almshouse.
    — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Those woods were full of bodies, thousands of unmarked graves.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • And always her flesh had been smooth and unmarked—not counting the occasional zit, of course.
    — William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Registrants are asked to provide a selfie outside a polling place or at home with a blank and unmarked ballot.
    — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2024

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