Example Sentences

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Most console or PC owners probably have one - an ever-growing collection of unfinished or even unplayed titles.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2025

Yet six songs came from Springsteen’s 2020 album “Letter To You” and left unplayed at least for this performance was the classic “Thunder Road.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Unplayed shows you podcasts with unplayed episodes, active shows all your followed podcasts, and inactive is for “podcasts you’re not following and have no added episodes, or seem to be inactive.”

From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2022

Now, with what the league probably considers too many games to reschedule, the players’ union would ask that a new deal pay players and credit them with service time for unplayed games.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022

As far as the actual defence was concerned, this comedy might have been left unplayed.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)