How to Use undetected in a Sentence

undetected

adjective
  • The hack went undetected for years, according to the timeline on the blog post.
    William Turton, Fortune, 1 June 2023
  • These species surround us in forests, coasts and cities, but so many of them go undetected.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Scientists say most ship strike deaths go undetected because the whales sink to the bottom of the ocean.
    Ben Tracy, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The formula is scent-free and, for the most part, goes undetected (while still nourishing the skin).
    Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The state has argued that the silver-primer rounds were live, and went undetected for at least 11 days before the shooting.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Emerald ash borer is a silent, rapid tree killer that lives, often undetected, under the bark of ash trees for 10 months of the year.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In Beijing, officials warned over the weekend that the outbreak had been spreading undetected through the city for the past week.
    Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
  • His escape went undetected for more than an hour until guards took a head count.
    Maryclaire Dale and Marc Levy, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Kots questioned how the drones could have reached the bases undetected, noting that Moscow is within the same distance.
    Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Those are often caused by undetected long-term metal fatigue in the fan blades.
    Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • And an airship as large as two buses was not going to go undetected.
    Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2023
  • This suggests that there are many more asymptomatic cases that have gone undetected in the area.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Austin goes undetected in his hunt, though Sifu makes a huge blunder.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The massive size of many groups has also enabled men to join undetected, some men said in interviews.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
  • That party was the perfect cover to sneak out undetected.
    Vulture, 25 June 2023
  • Two species of tiny rodents have lived undetected in Australia for millions of years — until now.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • His escape went undetected for more than an hour until guards took a headcount.
    Marc Levy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The cause of sudden cardiac arrest can be an undetected heart condition, heart disease or a hit to the chest, said Kovacs.
    The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2023
  • These are not children who have stolen into the country undetected.
    Photographs Kirsten Luce, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The most effective poison, which would go absolutely undetected, she is told, is a pear a day, sweet and juicy.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Apparently, Saylor and the CFO believed that using fringes in lieu of cash would ensure that the scheme go undetected.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Some cases have likely gone undetected for a lack of testing.
    Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2022
  • With few watchful eyes on the school ticketing system and few rules to govern it, inequities have gone undetected.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Chinese health official Pang Xinghuo said on Sunday that cases have been spreading undetected in the city for about a week.
    Britt Clennett, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Behind him, undetected, was Votto, who was with the club on a rehab assignment.
    Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But Benenson also believes that most of the people who cross undetected are coming to the U.S. for the same reasons as those who encounter border agents.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Questions remain as to why the pilot ejected from the aircraft and why the jet appeared to have continued flying undetected.
    Sam Brock, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In many cases the hackers burrowed deep into U.S. networks and remained undetected for a long time.
    Dustin Volz, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Mercaptan has a foul, rotten egg odor, to ensure natural gas does not go undetected if there is a leak.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This increases the odds of the malware going undetected once it is sent on its dastardly mission.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023

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