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Example sentences for "unopposed"

Lexicographically close words:
unoccupied; unoffending; unofficial; unofficially; unopened; unordained; unordered; unorganised; unorganized; unoriginal
  1. But this was a mere excuse, and if they had chosen they might have sailed unopposed to Peiraeus, and inflicted terrible injury on Athens.

  2. The people threatened to rise in mutiny against him, and when the partisans of Brasidas, now grown bold, openly moved a resolution to accept his conditions, the proposal was carried, and the Spartan general marched unopposed into the town.

  3. Unopposed as these were, their landing was soon effected, and a few hours later the American stars were to be seen floating over the still smoking ruins of the British fortress.

  4. On the following day we still pursued our way unopposed down the Insiza valley, burning kraal after kraal, but never seeing a sign of the native inhabitants, who had evidently received timely notice of our approach and fled into the hills.

  5. William the Conqueror had unopposed put Norman prelates in the place of the English bishops, and had homage rendered him by them, while they received from him investiture with the ring and the staff.

  6. Anne Boleyn, though previously branded by the Parliament as a bastard, now ascended the throne unopposed as the last living member of the family of Henry VIII.

  7. The prize offered for the race was a big one, the unopposed passage of the Gusht defile, plus the active, or passive, assistance of "Gushti.

  8. He admitted, however, that we had gained one great advantage, namely an unopposed passage through the defile.

  9. Lee had invaded Maryland, his cavalry amusing themselves by unopposed marches into Pennsylvania.

  10. He was glad to escape with what remained of his army from a position which he had brilliantly achieved in the confident expectation of there completely crushing Lee, compelling his surrender, and marching unopposed into Richmond.

  11. Sheridan, with his terrible cavalry, has marched almost unmolested and unopposed along the James, cutting the railroads and canal.

  12. Howard, reached Sudley Ford after an unexpectedly long march, and crossed it unopposed about nine in the morning.

  13. The victory at Chinhai was followed by the unopposed occupation of the important city of Ningpo, where the inhabitants shut themselves up in their houses, and wrote on their doors "Submissive People.

  14. From his camp at Karakoram, on the Kerulon, he marched in a straight line through Kuku Khoten and the Ongut country to Taitong, securing an unopposed passage through the Great Wall by the defection of the Ongut tribe.

  15. In the same month I was elected unopposed to the Erpingham District Council, and for years I lost a day a fortnight from my work to attend the meetings without fee or reward.

  16. My return caused a great flutter in the Tory camp, and they determined I should not be returned unopposed at the general election.

  17. Bond Cabbell, who was returned unopposed at the first election of the Council.

  18. Their next advance, which they could not expect to be as unopposed as their late one, would bring them into the plain of Kashgar.

  19. Having forced his way through a desultory opposition offered by the Thessalian cavalry, he crossed Mount Othrys, and marched unopposed the rest of the way through the straits of Thermopylae to the frontiers of Phocis and Boeotia.

  20. But this time Agesilaus marched as he had announced, and in three days arrived unopposed on the banks of the Pactolus, before the Persian cavalry could be recalled.

  21. What is of most significance, however, for understanding the almost unopposed =Adoption of Christianity= by so many German races is the slight hold that their heathen religion had upon them at that time.

  22. Praxeas=, a confessor of Asia Minor and opponent of Montanism, was its first representative at Rome, where unopposed he expounded his views about A.

  23. But these reactions, even where unopposed for a time, were too much in conflict with the spirit of the age to gain more than a temporary and precarious success.

  24. Bolivar climbed the coast range unopposed and met the Spanish army not far south of Cerro de Pasco.

  25. Monteverde entered Valencia unopposed and only the coast from Caracas east to Cumana remained to the republic.

  26. The patriots advanced rapidly and unopposed over the Maritime Cordillera, covered by a cloud of Peruvian guerillas, under whose protection Sucre marked out the daily route and brought in provisions.

  27. By this time Bolivar was advancing from Popayan to Pasto and the Spaniards, thinking it best to concentrate their forces, abandoned Cuenca and the southern provinces and allowed Sucre to advance unopposed to the neighbourhood of Quito.

  28. Unopposed they transported a part of their army to the European shore, moved toward Constantinople and invested it by land and sea.

  29. Also, ours was not a case of taking "unopposed possession.

  30. They thence, after an ineffectual march upon Edinburgh, proceeded unopposed directly south to Kelso, as Argyle was kept from following them by Mar's movements.

  31. But by that time Soult had come almost unopposed through the mountains from Salamanca to Placentia and the direct road to Portugal was closed.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unopposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agreeing; concordant; concurrent; solid; unanimous; unchallenged; uncontested; unopposed