Like junk mail, usually

Usage examples of unread.

The ghastly tale which they told could not have been utterly unread even by the obtuse and opinionated mind of the vain mother.

And he was pursuing these forebodings and this uncomfortable train of thought, with his head between his hands, and the Pumpernickel Gazette of last week unread under his nose, when somebody tapped his shoulder with a parasol, and he looked up and saw Mrs.

Blaine felt a profound regret for all he had left undone, the waters unsailed, movies unseen, books unread, girls untouched- He was thrown forward.

Harvard man, knowing full well that everything he wrote would be shredded and baled with all the rest of the White House wastepaper, unread, still turned out some two hundred or more weekly reports on the sayings and doings of youth, with footnotes, bibliographies, and appendices and all.

His plans for the pursual of his ideas and feelings upon this subject had been communicated to his late ward in an urgent and important paper, which his Grace had never seen, but one day, unread, pushed into a certain black cabinet, which perhaps the reader may remember.

Louis, and New Orleans sitting on the hall table downstairs, unadmired and unread.

The dogs nose around, always keeping one anxious, faithful eye on Mum, who looks unmovable, unmoving, unreading.

Travis Lee drove up to the ranch house one silken fall morning as I sat in a rocking chair on the front porch, an unread novel in my lap, an unwhittled stick at my feet, the sun warm on my face, and Betty asleep in the house.

The entire subcellar was packed with stacks and stacks of neatly piled papers, dossiers and card files and loose-leaf folders, the unread reports of the Uranist Intelligence Agency over the last seven months.

Progress, does not, like his unread imitators, attempt to personify Christianity and Valour: he dramatizes for you the life of the Christian and the Valiant Man.

She drove to a Pay-Less lot past the Beverly Center and dissected the contents of the can: two nonfat yogurt tubs, an unread paper, three Q-Tips and a phone bill with thirty-eight long-distance calls to the same number inthe San Fernando Valley, plus a receipt for a jungle gym delivered to a Valley address.

Not being wholly unread in the authors who had seen the most of those constitutions, and who best understood them, I cannot help concurring with their opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

I fetched that week's as yet unread copy of the magazine from a side table and handed it to her, watching as she flicked through towards the end, to the many pages of classified advertisements.

All herded together and neatly tethered to a collection station for over a hundred and fifty centuries, just floating there, lonely and unread.

From here on out, he would delete, unread, all e-mails without domain names.