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Example sentences for "unswept"

Lexicographically close words:
unsuspectingly; unsuspicious; unsuspiciously; unsustained; unsweetened; unswerving; unswervingly; unsworn; unsymmetrical; unsymmetrically
  1. The dirt of the unswept streets, never removed, has raised the grade of Cairo from age to age.

  2. It was renowned as the "Unswept Hall of Pergamus.

  3. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.

  4. But if we have come there when it is all unswept and ungarnished, may we not the more certainly rely on what it indicates?

  5. Take care of yourself," he said, huskily; and the next minute he was plunging down those three flights of unswept stairs to the street.

  6. While he waited in the unswept vestibule of an incredibly ornate frame apartment house for the answer to his ring, and the usual: "My goodness!

  7. It was supposed to represent an unswept hall, on the pavement of which the crumbs and remains of the repast which fell from the table still remained.

  8. The floor was unswept and littered with scraps of paper and dust: in one corner was a heap of twigs and small branches of trees that Charley had found somewhere and brought home for the fire.

  9. After throwing an old colchao upon a floor unswept for ages, the presiding genius of the place departed slowly, muttering from her toothless jaws sundry uncouth sounds, which had very much the tone of maledictions.

  10. Its streets are unswept from one year's end to the other.

  11. Let us peep for a moment into the home; it is a middle-class one, and presents the usual untidy, slovenly and unswept appearance that is characteristic of every such one in the country.

  12. About and among the huts of the unswept and malodorous hamlet just above the shore there were fine trees, mango, tamarind, babool and bor, showing what might have been elsewhere.

  13. Both rooms were smoke-dried to the colour of mahogany, unswept and very untidy, but the good woman seemed quite sensible of these disadvantages and apologized on account of narrow space.

  14. The turfy mountains are the unswept stones that have held and utilized their ever-increasing capital of dirt.

  15. The bottoms were half out of the chairs; the painted wash-stand stood on a square of chilly oil-cloth; the rusty grate and broken hearth were unswept of their ashes; the carpet patched and threadbare.


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