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Example sentences for "unhealthful"

Lexicographically close words:
unharness; unharnessed; unharnessing; unhatched; unhealed; unhealthfulness; unhealthiness; unhealthy; unheard; unheated
  1. As society is now constituted, the consequences of wrong-doing are usually terrible and greatly to be dreaded; and all who have unhealthful cravings for forbidden things should be made to realize this.

  2. To these were soon added a malarial epidemic caused by the unhealthful surroundings.

  3. It was a low and marshy peninsula, an unhealthful place for the site of a colony.

  4. This system, so natural and advantageous, seemed to the English Kings, and even to the colonists, a sign of unhealthful conditions.

  5. This attempt was foredoomed to failure, for if economic conditions could not develop cities in the colony, the mere erection of houses upon the unhealthful Jamestown peninsula could accomplish nothing.

  6. The climate of eastern Virginia, unhealthful as it undoubtedly was in the places where the first settlements were made, cannot be blamed for all the epidemics that swept the colony.

  7. This experience has several times happened to me, and unless I know my hostess very well, I am obliged to sleep in this unhealthful atmosphere.

  8. The most unhealthful spots were the bathroom, a servants' room entered by a staircase leading from the kitchen, and the stable, a small building immediately to the right of the house.

  9. We have seen in the preceding pages the process through which the air is rendered unhealthful by close rooms and want of ventilation.

  10. No indecent or unhealthful costumes offended the eye, no half-naked dancers of dubious morality were sustained in a life of dangerous excitement, by the money of Christian people, for the mere amusement of their night hours.

  11. There are three causes of impure and unhealthful water.

  12. To this we must add the great neglect of economy as well as health in substituting unhealthful gaslight, poisonous, anthracite warmth, for the life-giving light and warmth of the sun.

  13. The human body gradually accommodates itself to unhealthful circumstances, so that people can live a long time in bad air.

  14. There is a prevailing prejudice against night air as unhealthful to be admitted into sleeping-rooms, which is owing wholly to sheer ignorance.

  15. There is inevitably more or less leakage of the gas which it is unhealthful to breathe.

  16. A society which can afford luxuries for some cannot easily justify unhealthful conditions of production, or lack of general education.

  17. If energy and enterprise are to be kept at a maximum, wage-earners must be protected from exhausting toil under unhealthful conditions.

  18. On the following morning I visited the hospital--that of the Second Division, the First being at Miami and the Third not formed--where I found what appeared to me to be very distressing and unhealthful conditions.

  19. The hospital was found in a very distressing and unhealthful condition.

  20. How may water suspected of being unhealthful be made safe to drink?

  21. Don't neglect them; and if you find that you take cold easily, find out what is wrong with yourself, and reform your unhealthful habits.

  22. Ferrara is situated in an unhealthful plain which is traversed by a branch of the Po and several canals.

  23. To wear garments that are daily being soiled by perspiration and other cutaneous excretions, is a most uncleanly and unhealthful practice.

  24. The inhalation of the poisonous smoke produces unhealthful effects upon the delicate mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes and of the lungs.

  25. Work furnishes activity of this kind and serves also as a safeguard against the unhealthful and immoral habits contracted so often from idleness.

  26. Sickness is sometimes caused by individual excesses, but it is also caused by unhealthful occupations and life in miserable tenements.

  27. We cannot judge whether the amount of force expended be healthful or unhealthful till we know how much force has been and can be generated.

  28. Unless a dress be cut so low in the neck that it becomes an unhealthful exposure after taking off warmer clothing, it in no wise concerns this branch of the subject.

  29. There is no effort made to excite an unhealthful emulation.

  30. For children cannot possibly give the necessary attention to their lessons when they are tired out and when they have been working hard in unhealthful rooms until late at night.

  31. Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful conditions surround you.

  32. To dream of breaking a corkscrew while using it, indicates to the dreamer perilous surroundings, and he should use force of will to abandon unhealthful inclinations.

  33. To dream of counters, foretells that active interest will debar idleness from infecting your life with unhealthful desires.

  34. The huts were not only showing signs of decay, but some were damp and unhealthful during the rainy season, and even became mouldy at times.

  35. This continual drain on his system is quite sufficient, without having to combat with poor dwellings, poor food, and unhealthful surroundings.

  36. Do not tempt the palate by a great variety of unhealthful dainties.

  37. Featherbeds are unhealthful in warm weather, because they induce perspiration; and in all cases, those, who have the care of children, should proportion their covering by night to the season of the year.

  38. Castillo refused to do so, on the nominal ground that he considered Santiago an unhealthful spot.

  39. One was, that Baracoa was an unhealthful spot; in which he was surely in error.

  40. This site, too, is remarkable as one of the most unhealthful of the entire valley.

  41. If he lives on the edge of the great Andean Cordillera, laborers may be secured from some of the lower valleys, but they must be paid well for even a temporary stay in the hot and unhealthful lowlands.

  42. There is a hasty and unhealthful growth; but long before maturity the days grow long and hot, drought comes, and the garden dries up.

  43. For this reason it is usually best to apply fertilizers to vines in the fall; for if given in the spring, a late, unhealthful growth is often produced.

  44. Mistletoe infested trees, especially, are marked for cutting, for neither in plant nor in animal life can healthy offspring be expected to develop under unhealthful conditions.

  45. It is impossible to grow a sound and thrifty forest for future generations if there are unhealthful conditions in the forest that are a constant menace to the trees.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unhealthful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.