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Example sentences for "untimely"

Lexicographically close words:
untied; unties; until; untill; untilled; untinctured; untinged; untired; untiring; untiringly
  1. The untimely sneeze, the ophthalmic eye, the hunched back were omens to be shunned.

  2. Such an untimely accident was as much deprecated as were the Turk, the Comet, and the Devil by pious Christian souls during the Middle Ages.

  3. She was the daughter of Keopuolani and younger sister of Kamehameha III, and came to her untimely death in 1836.

  4. I am not only hungry but cold, and my very bones ache, from traveling in this untimely storm, which I perceive is on the point of clearing up.

  5. As he spoke, he reeled in his saddle, the rein slipped from his grasp, and his fiery steed rushed away, bearing him to the enemy and his untimely doom.

  6. Which speechless woe of his poor she attendeth, And his untimely frenzy thus awaketh: 'Dear Lord, thy sorrow to my sorrow lendeth Another power; no flood by raining slaketh.

  7. Yet die I will not till my Collatine Have heard the cause of my untimely death; That he may vow, in that sad hour of mine, Revenge on him that made me stop my breath.

  8. If I could but have known two years earlier, and found her, she never need have suffered the privations which I am sure hastened her untimely death.

  9. It was impossible to help laughing; but we passed over the question, feeling that a course of Bible history begun on the bridge would come to an untimely end.

  10. And by the lengthened shadows I was reminded that 'twas an untimely errand the fool was upon.

  11. But still there was abroad an oppression: a forewarning, in untimely heat and strain, of disastrous weather.

  12. By those infantine smiles of happy light, Which were a fire within a stranger's hearth, Quenched even when kindled, in untimely night Hiding the promise of a lovely birth: 7.

  13. See, it smiles as it is sleeping, 5 Mocking your untimely weeping.

  14. That night the untimely snow came and covered them in their open barge, so they landed, dug a space in the deep snow, and built a fire.

  15. At least thirty large fish were caught this morning, also an infant shark, a grandchild who had wandered forth to nibble, and met an untimely grave.

  16. I am deeply indebted to you, Oakes, for declining to signal me and my division down, when I foolishly requested that untimely forbearance.

  17. They are so many well-contrived foils, to give greater brilliancy to the diamonds of a comfortable cot, and the entire consciousness of being no longer exposed to an untimely summons on deck.

  18. To their untimely doom they went; Ill strove they, and to no avail, And minished is their armament!

  19. Many heroic deeds were performed that memorable afternoon, and many a gallant hero was sent to an untimely grave.

  20. Even though every man of us might be sent to an untimely grave, the Russian flag should never surmount the White Ensign of Britain.

  21. With a heavy heart I entered my canoe, but not before giving a bunch of beads to the Bakalai who had told me the story of the untimely death of poor Querlaouen.

  22. He then rose slowly from his haunches, and at once faced us, uttering a roar of rage at our evidently untimely intrusion, coming as we had to disturb him and frighten his wife, when they were quietly seated side by side.

  23. Up till now he had been profoundly unhappy and ashamed, but something in the unconquerable obstinacy of her attitude appealed to the devil that lived in him, a devil of untimely and disastrous humour.

  24. Or would unholy and untimely inspirations seize him?

  25. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

  26. Edward thy son, that now is Prince of Wales, For Edward our son, that was Prince of Wales, Die in his youth by like untimely violence!

  27. An untimely ague Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber when Those suns of glory, those two lights of men, Met in the vale of Andren.

  28. March sadly after; grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.

  29. Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends And let them know both what we mean to do And what's untimely done.

  30. If ever he have child, abortive be it, Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, Whose ugly and unnatural aspect May fright the hopeful mother at the view, And that be heir to his unhappiness!

  31. How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd!

  32. Set down, set down your honourable load- If honour may be shrouded in a hearse; Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament Th' untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.

  33. Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripp'd.

  34. Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny; it hath been The untimely emptying of the happy throne, And fall of many kings.

  35. But when I came, some minute ere the time Of her awaking, here untimely lay The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.

  36. Did I forget that by the house of York My father came untimely to his death?

  37. WHAT WE ALL THINK THAT age was older once than now, In spite of locks untimely shed, Or silvered on the youthful brow; That babes make love and children wed.

  38. Who at this untimely hour Wanders o'er the desert sands?

  39. Yet if untimely death awaited my son, it will be good to think he fell leading the Teucrians into Latium, and slew his Volscian thousands before he fell.

  40. And even as they came, they see on the dry beach Misenus cut off by untimely death, Misenus the Aeolid, excelled of none other in stirring men with brazen breath and kindling battle with his trumpet-note.

  41. For a moment he could scarcely realize Gerelda's untimely fate.

  42. I was fearful lest you might have pined away and died because of my untimely loss.

  43. It would not seem right so--so soon after--after poor Gerelda's untimely death.

  44. With shirts to clothe me, an untimely tree Unraimented when all the woods are green?

  45. But the charm and interest of his talk grew with the night, and it was already dawn when, the ghost long since forgotten, we escorted him back across the snow to his untimely lunch.

  46. The speech referred to the continued indisposition of his majesty, and the death of the Princess Charlotte; but without promising an inquiry into the cause of her untimely end!

  47. This latter case, no doubt, applies to the patriot whose untimely end we are now lamenting.

  48. I covet not the glory arising from the carnage of battle, which fills the grave with untimely dead, or covers the earth with mutilated forms.

  49. Our readers will recollect our former statements respecting the Princess Charlotte, and we think the circumstance we are now about to relate will not operate against the proofs we have adduced concerning her untimely end.

  50. Here (were there words to express such sentiments with proper tenderness) I should record the beauty, innocence, and untimely death, of the first object my eyes ever beheld with love.

  51. Untimely or unhappy deaths are what we are most apt to lament, so little are we able to make it indifferent when a thing happens, though we know it must happen.

  52. But as untimely flowers, that by a returning frost are stricken down in beauty, so drooped, so perished, this fair and happy family.


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