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How to use undisturbed in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Undisturbed means not disturbed or agitated. Example: “Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed.”

Examples of undisturbed by meaning

adjectiveNot disturbed or agitated.

  • Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed.1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 728

More sentences with undisturbed

  • "HS2's London tunnels will help ensure many homes and habitats in the capital remain undisturbed.2020 October 21, “Network News: London tunnel contracts awarded with work to start in 2022”, in Rail, pages 12–13. From the entry environmentally friendly
  • Undisturbed tree roots served to bind soil particles together and to prevent sheet erosion.1991, Sam L. J. Page & Helán E. Page, "Western Hegemony over African Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia and its Continuing Threat to Food…. From the entry pyroculture
  • Haast's eagle lived on the island undisturbed until people arrived and started eating all the moas they could find.2012, Matt Kaplan, The Science of Monsters, Simon & Schuster (Scribner), page 26. From the entry Haast's eagle
  • Tucked under offramps of the Henry Hudson Parkway, it sat undisturbed, protected by the anonymity of its location.2009 February 1, J. David Goodman, “Under an Exit Ramp, a Cluster of Mysteries”, in New York Times. From the entry offramp
  • Anoas need undisturbed forest and cannot adapt to logged areas.1998, Jane Whitten, Tropical Wildlife of Southeast Asia, page 16. From the entry anoa
  • The shy black grouse, “with an eye on every feather,” can only thrive in vast, absolutely undisturbed heath and moorlands.1979, Rien Poortvliet, translated by Marlies Comjean, “The Black Grouse”, in The Living Forest: A World of Animals, New York, N.Y.: Harry…. From the entry black grouse
  • The exposed dura showed healthy and was left undisturbed.1905, R. Johnson Held, S. J. Kopetzky, “Report of a Case of Purulent Meningitis Following Radical Mastoid Operation—Recovery after…. From the entry show
  • Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts.2016, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife, page 120. From the entry regally
  • In contrast, tree growth has been found to be higher on displaced material such as berms and sidecasts compared with the harvested undisturbed soils.2006, Rattan Lal, Encyclopedia of Soil Science - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 1380. From the entry sidecast
  • After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of doom still hung undisturbed over the project.2004, Arthur Miller, “The Turpentine Still”, in Southwest Review, volume 89, number 4, page 479. From the entry doom
  • It is, that the material which, if left undisturbed, would have grown into one, can grow into many-into twins or into fourlings.1929, Hans Dreisch (W.H. Johnston), Man and the Universe, page 93. From the entry fourling
  • They might have stayed until dusk, undisturbed by Schmidt's casual customers, had it not been for the entrance of three grimy and lowering men.1906, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 178, page 14. From the entry lowering
  • The dance carries on undisturbed by this possible news footage, until, after a while, the dancers line up on one of three arching bridges (the main items of Ms.2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times. From the entry bomblike
  • I am counting the minutes until I can resume its perusal undisturbed.” I'm pretty quick, and I at once spotted that the atmosphere was not of the utmost cordiality.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry matily
  • The zongzi, it is said, symbolize the rice that the Miluo River people threw to the fish so that they would leave Qu Yuan's body undisturbed.1953, Department for International Work, All-China Democratic Women's Federation, editor, Women of China, Beijing: Foreign Languages…. From the entry zongzi
  • And so through all the racket and noise of two or three saddlings and unsaddlings, he remained quite undisturbed, and came out of it much the best.1901, Sidney Peel, “Up to the Transvaal”, in Trooper 8008 I Y, London: Edward Arnold […], →OCLC, page 134. From the entry saddling

Meaning of undisturbed

  1. adjective Not disturbed or agitated.
  2. adjective Calm.

Full definition of undisturbed

Questions about undisturbed in a sentence

How do you use undisturbed in a sentence?
Undisturbed is used as an adjective. For example: “Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed.”
What is a short sentence with undisturbed?
“The exposed dura showed healthy and was left undisturbed.”
What does undisturbed mean?
Undisturbed means not disturbed or agitated.

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