unaccompanied
not accompanied; alone: The shipment arrived unaccompanied by an invoice.
Music. without an accompaniment: a sonata for unaccompanied violin.
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How to use unaccompanied in a sentence
What has surged is unaccompanied adults, a group that’s much less onerous to handle.
The surge in border apprehensions in 2021, visualized | Philip Bump | June 10, 2021 | Washington PostIn the past few years, the region has had to step in to house or serve unaccompanied minors, asylum-seeking families and an influx of Haitians arriving at the border.
Board of Supervisors to Consider New Office of Immigrant Affairs | Maya Srikrishnan | June 4, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoHalf of them traveled without their parents, one of the highest percentages of unaccompanied minors ever recorded in Mexico, Gough said.
Border Policy Is Getting More and More Convoluted. That’s Creating False Hope for Migrants. | by Lomi Kriel | May 13, 2021 | ProPublicaSB 678 require the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to collect and include data about unaccompanied women experiencing homelessness in the state’s Homeless Data Integration System.
Sacramento Report: The Bills San Diego Agencies Want Passed | Sara Libby | April 23, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThis first emerged in 2014, when the Obama administration was scrambling to deal with an increase in unaccompanied minors at the border, pushed north as a result of violence in Central America.
The data is clear: An unusual surge in border apprehensions did occur in March | Philip Bump | April 8, 2021 | Washington Post
But the truth revealed itself this year when thousands upon thousands of unaccompanied children simply walked to this country.
Didn't Obama Hear Oregon’s Warning Shot on Immigration? | Doug McIntyre | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA decade ago, he was also an unaccompanied minor hoping to make it to America.
New York has received more unaccompanied minors this year than any state other than Texas.
Close to 50,000 unaccompanied Central American minors showed up at the southwest border this year.
Contrast that to the 50,000 or so unaccompanied minors at our border with Mexico.
Lectures—Two ladies may attend a lecture, unaccompanied by a gentleman, without attracting attention.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyThen they would go in, opera hat under arm, with that conquering air of married men when they are unaccompanied by their wives.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetThere is a certain quaint solemnity, a beautiful austerity, in the unaccompanied singing of hymns that touches me profoundly.
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland | Kate Douglas WigginIt had certain rooms where ladies unaccompanied might get a drink, but into these they barely glanced.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsGlory, sweet as it was to him, lost its value, if unaccompanied by the consciousness of desert which stamps it as honor.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
British Dictionary definitions for unaccompanied
/ (ˌʌnəˈkʌmpənɪd) /
not accompanied
music
(of an instrument) playing alone
(of music for a group of singers) without instrumental accompaniment
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