How to Use unsorted in a Sentence

unsorted

adjective

• The robot picks unsorted bearing rings and places them onto a buffer table.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
• Relevant files in the city archives of Berlin were missing, unsorted, or sealed.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• The tours seemed less accessories for motorists than rambling day trips through the unsorted mind of the republic.
  — Scott Borchert, The Atlantic, 22 June 2021
• Each of these little blocks will correspond to a name on the unsorted list, and the single block on the left represents the target name.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2020
• One is filled with floor-to-ceiling stacks of unsorted documents, fraying maps, and government documents.
  — National Geographic, 3 Nov. 2016
• Faulkner concentrated on reading and writing during work hours, often sitting on sacks of unsorted mail.
  — David Beard, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
• In Pinter, the greatest dramatic weight lies in what’s unspoken, in the darkness of unsorted feelings.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• Many patients visit the renowned clinic looking for a third or fourth opinion, carting with them unsorted documents from external health systems.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
• Postal workers in Michigan and Iowa described seeing entire pallets of boxes go unsorted and sit outdoors in the rain or summer heat.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• The unsorted material created an environmental hazard that spewed toxins into the air and soil, the state said.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• The team demonstrated a chemical technique that takes a chaotic, unsorted cocktail of the world’s three most common plastics and transforms it into hydrogen fuel.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
• City Council staff members put the figure at $40 million, and said costs would be offset by savings on fuel and fees for transporting unsorted garbage to faraway landfills.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Simply leave a pile of freshly washed, unsorted laundry on a tabletop near it in a 6 x 5 ft space, and Isaac 0 will neatly fold it all in 30-90 minutes.
  — New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026
• Some of the Moroccans have so many crates that the beds needed to be stashed away and their piles of merchandise — an unsorted mix of meteorites and ordinary desert rocks — spill out onto the sidewalks outside the motel-style units.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2014
• At Recology’s recycling center on a San Francisco pier, huge mounds of unsorted paper, plastic, aluminum and glass lie on warehouse floors.
  — Elena Shao, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• But over the past few years Yadrovo has been receiving vast floods of untreated and unsorted garbage from the burgeoning metropolis of Moscow, about 100 miles away.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
• Remember those viral TikToks over the summer capturing never-ending lines at the airport, flight delays and cancellations, and rooms full of unsorted luggage?
  — Diana Tsui, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
• Technological improvements have led to simple quantum computers that could, if scaled up, do certain things better than today’s computers, such as searching through unsorted lists and factoring big numbers.
  — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
• In a bid to curb its own rampant pollution, China has clamped down on the import of unsorted paper and plastics and intends to close down outdated industrial mills used to process foreign scrap into reusable raw materials.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2018
• The British Library data—an apparently unsorted dump of employees’ passport scans and other personal information—were put up for sale for twenty bitcoins, some eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
• In 1961, approximately 1,000 cans of unsorted trash left behind by visitors were deposited daily and lightly covered with soil.
  — JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
• In a demo, the company shows how a florist can add a folder containing thousands of unsorted photos and ask the AI to sort them into subfolders, such as bouquets, flower decorations, bridal flowers, and physical flowers.
  — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026
• Cooks unsorted trash The underlying technology is called Solvothermal Liquefaction.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026
• Eco-friendly process Once activated, the unsorted plastic soup degrades beautifully inside a single reactor, pumping out hydrogen gas with a purity level exceeding 90 percent.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
• In Philadelphia, where more than 235 postal workers have tested positive, local media outlets reported unsorted mail piling up in postal facilities and carriers unable to complete routes even after working extra hours.
  — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• Near-impossible standards In past months, China has banned 24 kinds of solid waste, including unsorted paper, certain textile materials and low-grade polyethylene terephthalate often used in plastic bottles.
  — Megan Janetsky, azcentral, 4 July 2018