Sentence examples for long unclaimed from inspiring English sources

It upset the morticians that the man had laid there so long, unclaimed and unnamed.

Long part of an unclaimed area between Spanish and Portuguese territories, Durazno was not formally founded until 1821, when José Fructuoso Rivera established a settlement called San Pedro de Durazno, a name concocted from Dom Pedro de Alcântara, prince regent of Brazil, and durazno ("peach"), for the local fruit trees.

In 1867 Ducie was claimed by the United States under the Guano Islands Act, which established that an uninhabited territory with guano deposits could be claimed as a US possession, so long as it was unclaimed by any other country.

Next to each name is a ticking clock of anonymity representing how long that person has been unclaimed.

Why did the body of such an eminent architect, who gave the 20th century some of its most spellbinding buildings, go unclaimed for so long?

In Virginia, sheriff's offices have long had the job of managing unclaimed bodies.

Watch here Steve Wynn: I was in the rehearsal band that became the Long Ryders, after Sid left the Unclaimed [in November 1981].

The remains were unclaimed by families who had long abandoned their sick relatives, when they were alive and after they were dead.

Any unclaimed tokens from that day-long window will be sold to the white list in another round.

The commitment to bring gift aid into the 21st century will revolutionise this important tax relief and go a long way towards reducing the £750m that goes unclaimed each year".

The bodies reached Hart Island on a ferry like all the others, in spare wooden boxes and bound for ignominious mass interment off the coast of the Bronx where New York City buries its unclaimed dead by the hundreds in long, shallow trenches.