How to Use unwritten in a Sentence

unwritten

adjective
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  • They had an unwritten agreement.
  • Well, as the old song goes, the rest is still unwritten.
    — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 6 July 2017
  • And the film adds what’s left unwritten, the silence between the words, the doubts, the feelings and the emotion.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • There are no rules written on the walls but the kids know and respect the unwritten rules.
    — Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But right now the group seems to be playing by unwritten rules.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • At the street food market, there are many rules — all of them unwritten.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • Some of the choice unwritten rules include: No GPS or phones.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 May 2018
  • As for what else is coming down the pipeline for this brand, well, the rest is still unwritten...
    — Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Tribune reports of the time make the unwritten rules of Chicago in that era very clear.
    — Charles J. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
  • Baseball is full of unwritten rules, most of them dumb.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 12 June 2019
  • Our minds are kick-started and set loose to imagine the unseen, the unwritten.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Whether Conte stays in the Army is an as-yet unwritten chapter in her life.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • There used to be an unwritten rule in sports that referees should only throw the flag at the end of the games if the play was egregious.
    — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Ireland broke the unwritten rule of having no more than three Black players on the floor at one time.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Aug. 2021
  • For music teachers in schools, that’s been an unwritten rule for a long time.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • By the Court’s unwritten rules, new members are often seen more they are heard.
    — Tessa Berenson, Time, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Among them are what might be called the unwritten rules for parenthood.
    — Paula Hancocks, CNN, 3 Dec. 2022
  • And to the extent that some unwritten rule has ever preserved such a right, now is a good time to ignore it.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 25 June 2018
  • There used to be an unwritten rule not to call someone after 10 PM.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The site’s rules were brief and vague, and their unwritten policy was even simpler.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
  • In the end, the court’s future handling of unwritten rights may force a reckoning.
    — Kenji Yoshino, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Back in the early ’60s, an unwritten rule governed the college game.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Are there any unwritten rules among comics for what’s cool or uncool to wear when doing stand-up?
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The unwritten rule of the era, which some northern schools adhered to, was that teams would start no more than two Black players at home games or three on the road.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • These women did not worry about the unwritten rules that held women back in the other half of the sector.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • While people at the store are glad to be back serving the community, the pages ahead are unwritten.
    — NBC News, 8 June 2020
  • What’s unique about cryptocurrency is that the basic rules of the road are unwritten.
    — Paul Kiernan and Dave Michaels, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
  • There are at least two unwritten rules to betting on college sports.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Part of that unwritten code is for the referee, or referees, to make clear what will or won’t be called.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Pathologizing others tends to be a way of enforcing unwritten social codes.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024

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