How to Use undocumented in a Sentence

undocumented

adjective
  • The company cannot reimburse you for undocumented travel expenses.
  • His dad, who came to the United States from Cuba undocumented, dropped out of school in third grade; his mother dropped out in 10th.
    Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • Police raids took place across the country on Wednesday, the deadline for undocumented Afghans to leave.
    Saeed Shah, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • No detail goes undocumented in a league even more lucrative than the SEC.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2023
  • If the suspect is an undocumented immigrant, the trail can go cold quickly.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • All my nagging thoughts were there: Don’t let that perfect view go undocumented.
    Jackie Caradonio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2023
  • These findings may add to knowledge about an era that is largely undocumented, Mr. Hunter said.
    Jenny Gross, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • An undocumented immigrant has been charged with the crime.
    Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Gisele was born in Brazil and emigrated as a child to the US, living as an undocumented immigrant for over a decade.
    Gisele Barreto Fetterman, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023
  • With remote work, new risks emerged—voids in soft-skill learning and undocumented knowledge.
    Cheri Beranek, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Sow believes this is part of the problem, noting that the fear of being undocumented immigrants can hold these women back.
    Houreidja Tall, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2023
  • The commissioner himself came to the country as an undocumented child, Adams said.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • According to the plea agreement, Jimenez-Bautista helped guide dozens of undocumented immigrants across the border on at least eight occasions from March to June 2022.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Carafem requires you to show a valid ID, which might be difficult for minors, undocumented, or trans people.
    Lauren Rowello, Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Obama had told the group that his health plan wouldn’t cover undocumented immigrants.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • But Democrats play into their hands by accepting the terms of the debate as Republicans have framed them: that the problems of the border are the problems of undocumented immigrants.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • It was revealed at Thursday's arraignment that Castillo, who is from Guatemala, is undocumented and his visa has expired.
    Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2023
  • As far back as the 1960s, some Latinos, including civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, took a hard stance against undocumented immigrants.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
  • For years, calls to do more to control the flow of undocumented immigrants into the country have been an unrelenting GOP rallying cry.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Ramaswamy likes to stress that the family entered the United States legally, a dig at undocumented immigrants.
    Steven Mufson, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But the attendant at the gas station warned her that transporting undocumented people could be considered a crime.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • That bill would have required jail for undocumented immigrants charged with deportable crimes.
    Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Millions of undocumented immigrants would be barred from the country or uprooted from it years or even decades after settling here.
    Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Nearly 300 miles north of Point Barrow, the crew spotted something odd, what appeared to be a large and previously undocumented landmass.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Consider their latest cause célèbre, the tragic recent death of a young woman, Laken Riley, in which the accused is an undocumented migrant.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And the eruptions themselves were mostly left undocumented, making the modern detective work all the more challenging.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Iran may have constructed the wall in an attempt to reduce undocumented migration.
    Beth Bailey, Fox News, 11 June 2023
  • But a huge population of undocumented Afghans live in the country and are now being collectively punished for the actions of a handful of militants.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Lopez was born in Fort Worth, but her parents are undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In what could have been the last week of the 2024 legislative session, Idaho Republicans held a public hearing to send a bill that would criminalize undocumented immigrants to the House floor.
    Mia Maldonado, Idaho Statesman, 30 Mar. 2024

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