How to Use unfurnished in a Sentence

unfurnished

adjective
  • The result was a fresh start—a clean, unfurnished room with new paint.
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Rooms still are unfurnished, but much of the work is complete.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Ana and her children are now sleeping on the floor in a friend’s unfurnished spare room.
    Time, 8 Mar. 2021
  • For an unfurnished unit, a landlord may not charge more than twice the amount of monthly rent for a down payment.
    Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The unfurnished units both have two entrances, which are required in condos of this size.
    Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The house was unfurnished, per the complaint, and its kitchen was too small to adequately serve the 30 people who lived there.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2023
  • Once inside the unfurnished apartment, Bulaya closed the door behind her and didn't open it again for three days.
    Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Jazz bassist Pat Senatore has a house up for one-year lease — furnished or unfurnished — in Studio City at $5,850 a month.
    Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Inside the unfurnished ward, nurses hurried to deduce who had been infected and who had a cold.
    Stephen Robert Miller, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • Edwards said the house was mostly unfurnished, with mattresses leaning against the walls.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Some are furnished, glamping style, with beds, tables and outdoor chairs; the cheapest come unfurnished.
    Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • And what the unfurnished house lacked in personality, Caillier wanted to fill with that of her clients.
    Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Speaking to journalists in front of the crime scene, police said the apartment had been rented recently and was unfurnished except for tarps on the walls and windows.
    Joyce Lau, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The kids would ecstatically roll around in it in our living room, which was unfurnished, except for foam mattresses on the floor—covered, of course, in Bernard Screen Print.
    Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The former lovers meet up at Issa’s new unfurnished office, and the romantic tension between them is thick, as usual.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The property was sold as an unfurnished shell, and the family hired local contractors to finish.
    Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • For those of us who can’t afford the price of admission — an unfurnished version of the model unit would sell for roughly $2.5 million — there’s pleasure to be had in the show outside at sidewalk level.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • According to Gonzalez, the apartment was unfurnished, full of roaches and flies and had soiled carpeting.
    NBC News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The latest state-of-the-art project highlights luxury living in multi-family apartments and will be sold both furnished and unfurnished.
    Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • This past week saw Delvey fresh off the Rikers boat and back in the East Village, her unfurnished apartment less-deliberately minimal.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2022
  • In California, your landlord can charge the equivalent of up to two months’ rent as a security deposit on an unfurnished unit.
    Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The house is being sold unfurnished, though according to a spokesperson for the designer, buyers will have the option to purchase furnishings by request.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The lucky person who ends up renting the unfurnished cottage—and snags the opportunity to call the Duke and Duchess neighbors—will also enjoy a spacious garden plus off-road parking.
    Monique Valeris, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Post wedding, our newlyweds retire to their brand new appartement, completely unfurnished save for a mattress on the floor, a bottle of Champagne and two flutes.
    Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2017
  • While the home comes unfurnished—as Andrews furnished it with his personal collection of finds he's been collecting for decades—the 2,334-square-foot home still boasts gorgeous finishes.
    Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In a couple of weeks, an unfurnished property can be completely transformed and available on the leading booking platforms.
    Amiad Soto, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Keef and his friends crowded into an unfurnished apartment, waving guns in time to an ominous, chiming beat fit for a funeral procession.
    Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • All security deposits combined can’t exceed two months’ rent for an unfurnished apartment or three months’ rent for a furnished apartment.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The apartment comes unfurnished, except for window treatments throughout.
    Mary Forgione, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • One night in early 2019, Magana and Alvarado went to a party at a gaudy, largely unfurnished Los Angeles mansion, the sort of place rented by packs of influencers to use as content mills.
    WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023

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