How to Use unassembled in a Sentence

unassembled

adjective
  • Step 12: Return to the driveway to stare at the 45 unassembled parts.
    — Sally Schwartz Higginson, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • This is one of those gifts that come unassembled, that take a while to put together.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
  • Atop each lab bench sat an unassembled car, emblazoned with a child's name.
    — Kate Horowitz, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2016
  • Today, the unassembled pieces of the Freedom Bridge lie across a grassy construction site like giant Lego blocks.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Keep in Mind: This 165-pound deck box comes unassembled and requires at least two people to put it together and move it into place.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The electric furnace has remained unassembled, in pieces, at Fairfield.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
  • In a big hall at the Colorado Convention Center, 1,100 unassembled bikes, still in cartons and covered with colorful cloth, awaited the throng.
    — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Chase finished last in that survey, The unassembled convention is fairly new to the Republican Party of Virginia.
    — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Pack delicate items like the layers of an unassembled cake or cookies in sturdy cardboard boxes, tins, or Tupperware, and surround them with clothes.
    — Devra Ferst, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The regulations on mail order sales don’t address unassembled ammunition parts bought by those who make their own.
    — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Agents found an unassembled rifle in a pantry at Cook’s home and extremist material on his electronic devices.
    — cleveland, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The party-run process will entail Democrats holding an unassembled caucus to decide on a nominee across several locations in the district.
    — Byrick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The other day, the unassembled playground-to-be was still stuffed inside giant cardboard boxes shipped from the Landscape Structures playground factory in Minnesota.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In 2022, a bench donated in memory of Don Swinney was delivered unassembled, and volunteers quickly arrived to build it.
    — Madison Rudolf, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Most bed frames come unassembled with instructions and hardware to assemble.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This item arrived unassembled in a box left on my front porch.
    — Stewart Savin, Architectural Digest, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Paint Wardrobes Using fine-grit sandpaper, rough up the finish of the unassembled wardrobe parts and doors.
    — Maria V. Charbonneaux, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The question then becomes, what volume of space is needed to hold the unassembled pieces before they are put together?
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Further, when unassembled cases were stored for a time, the plastic would warp, and the two halves would not longer fit together.
    — Tekla S. Perry, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2023

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