Definition of UNSEEN

Examples of unseen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Like many unauthorized residents, Marisol straddles the line between visible and unseen—doing just enough to get by but careful to never draw too much undue attention her way. — Jason Parham, Wired, "The Small Miracle of Immigrant Stories on TV," 5 Feb. 2020 Haleyi’s story eerily echoes a subplot in The Assistant, Kitty Green’s film about an assistant working for the unnamed and unseen head of a film production office, meant to echo Weinstein himself. — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, "Why MeToo Thriller The Assistant Feels So Disturbingly Real," 31 Jan. 2020 Akiko must make a choice: to get out of the car and face her grandmother, or to slip away unseen. — Moeko Fujii, The New Yorker, "Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders," 16 Dec. 2019 Better to configure the stand or blind so that getting out unseen is easy. — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, "The Perfect Late-Season Deer Stand," 5 Dec. 2019 Modern nuclear submarines can travel submerged indefinitely, and U.S. Navy submarines can conduct an entire patrol underwater, unseen. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Lost World War II Submarine Rediscovered 75 Years Later," 12 Nov. 2019 Never mind that, since voting is only allowed from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Central time, a chunk of the country is voting blind, dancing unseen. — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, "‘Dancing With the Stars’ reads the room, sends Sean Spicer home," 12 Nov. 2019 This is especially true for senior-level positions, and that's thanks to an unseen and little understood problem blocking women's path to leadership: the broken rung. — Marianne Cooper For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, "The promotion gap is real. Here's how to fix it," 17 Oct. 2019 The Left should grow up, throw out their income-inequality pacifiers, and work with the Right to boost the absolute wealth of the poor, the middle class, and the rich — to heights yet unseen. — Deroy Murdock, National Review, "I Dream of Gini: Income Gap Grows under Trump, Obama — but So What?," 11 Oct. 2019

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11 Feb 2020

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“Unseen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseen. Accessed 24 Feb. 2020.

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