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How to use undone in a sentence

28 example sentences · adjective

Undone means not done. Example: “Your flies are undone.”

Examples of undone by meaning

adjectiveNot done.

  • Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]...

adjectiveNot fastened.

  • Your flies are undone.

adjectiveRuined; brought to nought.

  • Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!
  • Your hopes are murdered and undone.1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of...

More sentences with undone

  • He was peeved to note that his hard work had been undone.From the entry peeve
  • I received gigs for having buttons of my uniform undone.From the entry gig
  • The sewing has come undone on this seam.From the entry sewing
  • The stitching is coming undone on this shirt.From the entry stitching
  • Button up your shirt cuff. It has come undone.From the entry button up
  • He came undone when his wife refused to support him.From the entry come undone
  • "Ah, you Moldovans, how undone you came, you spit on holy things".2019, 01:01:09.00 from the start, in Eugen Damaschin, director, Moldova 89-91, spoken by himself (Iurie Roșca), Moldova: MILK Films. From the entry come undone
  • Should Magyar carry the day, the Orbánists warn, the work of the past sixteen years will all be undone.2026 March 22, Cockburn, “Last waltz for Trump’s Hungarian friends?”, in The Spectator. From the entry Orbánist
  • In men's fashion the ultimate style move is sprezzatura, embracing intentional errors such as undone buttons and misaligned neckties.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 4, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry sprezzatura
  • Next, I copied the standard uniform adjustments: rolled-up skirt, undone top button, trainer socks instead of regulation ankle ones.2022, Laila Woozeer, Not Quite White, Simon & Schuster, page 85. From the entry trainer sock
  • The outfits our uncle was referring to were matching denim overalls, each with a single undone strap hanging off a shoulder.2018, Andy Mascola, Animal Control, →ISBN. From the entry twinsy
  • It can't be undone, assuming the adoption was done properly.2014, D. W. Duke, The Duke Legacy, page 268. From the entry unadopt
  • At that point Leicester were playing with drive and ambition but they were undone by two goals in three minutes.2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025. From the entry turn in
  • The fall was due to the fact that the knot which secured the Bosn's chair to the gantline came undone.1964, United States. Merchant Marine Council, Proceedings, volume 21, page 138. From the entry bosn
  • I was straightways undone at the thought of Momma and Sarah Obis rattled around inside the flying tin can like a couple rag dolls.2014, Nick May, Molecricket, Energion Publications, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry straightways
  • The tea dress can be worn with heels or flats, buttoned up for a prim look or undone for a more sensual, casual vibe.2014, Kerstin Rodgers, Ms Marmite Lover's Secret Tea Party. From the entry tea dress
  • Over time, though, a class system emerged; now revisions made by infrequent contributors are much likelier to be undone by élite Wikipedians.2009 September 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?”, in TIME.COM, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2009…. From the entry élite
  • He wasn′t wearing shoes or a jacket and tie, and his front stud was undone, so that the white collar stood up skew-whiff.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry skew-whiff
  • The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such lapidary propositions as "What's done cannot be undone," which was irrefutably correct.2000, Karen Armstrong, “Christians: Brave New World (1492–1870)”, in The Battle for God (A Ballantine Book), New York, N.Y.: The Random…. From the entry lapidary
  • To the nethermost corner of his soul, he cursed himself for what he had done, and for all he had left undone.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry soever
  • However, tartrazine was used at a low concentration, and its effects were easily undone, potentially facilitating prolonged study of biological processes in live animals, they wrote.2024 September 5, Katie Hunt, “Yellow food dye found in chips and candy corn turns skin transparent in mice, study says”, in CNN. From the entry tartrazine
  • Glenn Burke was 27 when he walked out on Major League Baseball, his promising career as an outfielder undone mostly by the burden of being a semicloseted gay man.2014 July 14, John Branch, “Posthumous Recognition”, in The New York Times. From the entry semicloseted
  • Always place nappy fasteners horizontally, never vertically, because if for some reason they did come undone, they will not dig into your baby's tummy when he moves around.2011, Louise Heren, Susan McMillan, Nanny in a Book: The Common-Sense Guide to Childcare, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry nappy fastener
  • At eight o’clock, Brother Hamid showed up at the Office to Combat Vices in his off-duty gear: brown slacks and a black long-sleeved shirt, collarbuttons undone.2008, Massud Alemi, Interruptions: Love, Turmoil & Revolution in Iran, Bethesda, Md.: Ibex Publishers, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry collarbutton

Meaning of undone

  1. adjective Not done.
  2. adjective Not fastened.
  3. adjective Ruined; brought to nought.

Full definition of undone

Questions about undone in a sentence

How do you use undone in a sentence?
Undone is used as an adjective. For example: “Your flies are undone.”
What is a short sentence with undone?
“Your flies are undone.”
What does undone mean?
Undone means not done.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undone (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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