unsold

/ (ʌnˈsəʊld) /


adjective
  1. not sold: quantities of unsold stock

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How to use unsold in a sentence

  • Their unsold cargoes on the way in steamers when Manila was blockaded came in for enormously advanced prices.

    The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
  • Some of the people had gone home and others were going, and still there were quantities of goods unsold.

    The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes
  • The next day Bumper had his turn, and then again the following day, but each time he returned home unsold.

    Bumper, The White Rabbit | George Ethelbert Walsh
  • My dear sir, to me there are only two kinds of pictures, the sold and the unsold; and to me the sold are always the best.

  • It stopped with the second volume, and is now somewhat scarce, as the unsold copies were disposed of for waste paper.