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Example sentences for "untrimmed"

Lexicographically close words:
untravelled; untraversed; untreated; untrewe; untried; untrod; untrodden; untroubled; untrouthe; untrue
  1. The double row of trees was sadly broken now, and the trees were untrimmed and uncared for.

  2. And so he was the more startled when quite suddenly there appeared from behind a row of tall shrubs two young people, moving slowly together up the untrimmed turf in the direction of the house.

  3. Say you want to shoot some rats that have been showing their ugly whiskers in the field ditches; take your gun, well charged, and blow your brains out among the brambles of an untrimmed hedge.

  4. She bought an untrimmed hat for thirty-five cents and trimmed it with the cleaned ribbon from her summer sailor and a left over bit of skirt material.

  5. Erskine here notes that "a vow to leave the beard untrimmed was made sometimes by persons who set out against the infidels.

  6. Along the paths oleanders were set out in unpainted wooden tubs and the rose bushes had gone so long untrimmed that they were now of great size and covered with tiny white and yellow flowers.

  7. On their left was a hedge of untrimmed shrubs and in front an open court.

  8. If you are really sincere in your regret for the one who has Passed Beyond, why do you not sit upon the floor for seven days and nights, take up all food with your fingers, and allow your nails to grow untrimmed for three years?

  9. One of her arms was twined about the rough, untrimmed pillar of the porch; her clasp tightened until she held it as if it were a bulwark against the human approach ready to take her from it at a word from her lips.

  10. They came around the end of the cabin together and stood at the front, surveying the wide porch, its thick pillars of untrimmed logs, its balustrade solid and sheltering, its roof low and overhanging.

  11. Hedging the cinder trail were high, untrimmed bushes which completely screened her view.

  12. Large acreage was enclosed by a wooden rail fence flanked by tall untrimmed bushes.

  13. Beside him a man with an untrimmed shaggy beard hid his distorted features in shaking hands.

  14. The boyish colour was gone from his face, and he wore an untrimmed beard which made him look twice his age.

  15. The exterior of the place was, in summer, rendered somewhat more artistic than its neighbours in the same row by the dusty Virginia creeper which covered its walls and hung untrimmed about its windows.

  16. Certainly the exterior of the place presented nothing unusual, for the house was exactly the same as its neighbours, save for the dusty creeper which hung untrimmed around the windows.

  17. Sun and wind had darkened his face, and his pale brown beard curled meagre and untrimmed on a cheek and chin that in forty years had never felt a razor.

  18. She despises sensible clothing; she also despises plain fabrics and untrimmed models.

  19. Since many people, however, dislike long mourning veils and all crepe generally, it is absolutely correct to omit both if preferred, and to wear an untrimmed coat and hat of plainest black with or without a veil.

  20. One tablecloth, six or eight yards long, of finest but untrimmed damask with embroidered monogram on each side, or four corners.

  21. His long, untrimmed hair hung over an unwashed neck, his cheeks were sunken, his hands were clasped over the bedclothes that covered his shins.

  22. One day she records: "I have just untrimmed my hat, and have put nothing but a band of ribbon around it, and taken the lace out of the inside.

  23. A garth of ilex-oaks surrounded it; and beside it, more than half-hidden by the untrimmed trees, stood a ridiculously squat church.

  24. It was built of pine-logs sawn lengthwise in half and set together with their untrimmed bark turned outwards: but the most of their bark had peeled away with age.

  25. I might say the same thing," remarked the saint, stroking his long, untrimmed beard.

  26. You would never believe it, if you could have seen how peacefully the moonlight now sleeps on the moss-gathering walls, and with what untrimmed grace the vines and flowers creep and blossom on the rocky crevices of the windows.

  27. From the deep- arched porch at the back a weed-grown gravel walk led away through untrimmed hedges of box and myrtle to an ancient summer-house on the edge of a steep slope of grass.

  28. And your grey steed is too far away--even for that nimble squire to bring in good time," retorted the other, a kind of smile distending the rugged and untrimmed moustache that garnished his upper lip.

  29. The deckle-edge of the earlier and untrimmed books was improved upon and made easier to turn over and refer to rapidly by the improvement of trimming the leaves.

  30. Although the book with the untrimmed sheets was the rule of this earlier time, and of a later time, for the smaller books and for divisions of the sheet a cutter was necessary.

  31. It was an old neglected lane, little more than a ditch, worn ten feet deep by its winter waters, and shadowed by great untrimmed hedges, densely woven together.

  32. It was a lawn of sweet close turf in the center of the matted brake, of clean firm earth from which no shameful growth sprouted, and near the middle of the glade was a stump of a felled yew-tree, left untrimmed by the woodman.

  33. He lighted up and went away, leaving an abominable smell of untrimmed wick behind him.

  34. It smelt abominably of an untrimmed wick, Juliette thought, and the next minute she was kissing her father, who lay full length on a locker in the little cabin.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untrimmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bald; bare; blank; guileless; naked; nude; unadorned; unadulterated; unaffected; unassuming; uncalculating; uncomplicated; undecorated; undesigning; undisguised; undressed; unflattering; unornamented; unsophisticated; untrimmed; unvarnished