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• With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.From the entry heavy
• Use a small brush to touch up the paint anywhere it is uneven.From the entry touch up
• Being of an uneven temperament, he was free with his disfavours.From the entry disfavours
• Distracted by the way that the sudden gust of wind exposed the girl's bare thighs, he tripped on the uneven sidewalk and faceplanted straight into her soft cantaloupes.From the entry cantaloupe
• Defensive shields and domiciles may help explain the uneven radiation of chrysomelid subfamilial and tribal clades.2023 August 30, Caroline Simmrita Chaboo, Sally Adam, Kenji Nishida, Luke Schletzbaum, “Architecture, construction, retention, and repair…. From the entry chrysomelid
• If the walls are rough or uneven, they should be first pricked up, and then floated.2016, William Millar, Plastering: Plain and Decorative, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry prick up
• Yet the muster books are notoriously uneven in quality as an historical source.2008, Nicholas Rogers, The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry pressed
• Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs.2006 March 25, Susmita Saha, quoting Anurag Mehra, “A different ballgame”, in Calcutta Telegraph. From the entry zorb
• The reinforced steel columns showed no signs of over-stressing due to uneven settlementation.1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations, District of…. From the entry settlementation
• Physical surroundings are often sordid, discipline is uneven or nonexistent, fistfights and gangwars all take their toll.1973, Whitney North Seymour Jr., Why Justice Fails, New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry gangwar
• Check ball bearings for pitting, cracks, disorderly conduct; cups and cones for uneven wear; spindle for straightness.1972, Richard Ballantine, Richard's Bicycle Book, New York: Ballantine Books, page 181. From the entry spindle
• Duplicate books at used-book stores are not expensive and may save a lot of uneven shoulders later.1931 May 23, Olive Roberts Barton, “Your Children”, in The Bristol News Bulletin, volume 5, number 2101, Bristol, Va.–Tenn., section “No…. From the entry used-book store
• More uneven was the duck and pannenkoeken ($29).2023 April 29, Peter Hum, “Dutch discoveries in Lowertown: Little Amsterdam serves up both hits and misses”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa…. From the entry pannenkoek
• It’s uneven and full of speculative dot ­connecting.2014 July 25, Wesley Morris, “Marlon’s Method”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry dot connecting
• But if you devolve power and resources to local entities—the “let a thousand flowers bloom” approach— you get uneven results.2011, Michael Fullan, The Six Secrets of Change, page 12. From the entry let a thousand flowers bloom
• For a start the pram was heavier than it appeared, and also they were pulling it along very uneven ground.2006, Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale. From the entry pram
• The unfolding narrative often exposes a disciple's uneven progress, striving to sift out authentic guides from their counterfeits.2006, Vernon Ruland, Living Out the Questions: A Jesuit Confession, →ISBN, page 125. From the entry sift out
• But even amidst this chaos of contemporalities, Simmons also uses these conventions to restate the uneven development of late twentieth-century Earth.2005, Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction, Polity, →ISBN, page 226, →ISBN. From the entry contemporalities
• Her most notable feature is her eyes, which are distinctly uneven—the left one is a good quarter-inch higher than the right.1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry cubist
• Shangrila and Linda is an outstandingly uneven book -- sometimes it's fun and springy, and other times it's irritating and boring.1982 April 10, Andrea Loewenstein, “Daily Life”, in Gay Community News, page 11. From the entry springy
• In a laboratory in California, a machine which walk across any surface, however uneven, is undergoing final tests.1967 March 23, “Potential of 'Metal Men' Unlimited”, in Calgary Herald Magazine, retrieved 26 Sep 2013, page 12. From the entry pedipulator
• Cow Farm was a rambling building, with dark, uneven stairs, low-ceilinged rooms, queer, odd corners, and sudden unexpected doors.1919, Hugh Walpole, chapter X, in Jeremy, New York: George H. Doran, page 240. From the entry ceilinged
• Whether it be a mistucked shirt, an uneven tie, or a ketchup stain on his houndstooth jacket, Ponzer always had something off.2014, Malcolm Dorson, Octopus Summer, page 44. From the entry mistucked
• Using homogeneous flextension piezoceramic plates with uneven thickness polarization, as well as monolithic plates with internal electrodes, llows to increase their dynamic strength.2005, V. M. Bogomolʹnyi, Information transducers, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry flextension
• Originally the New Left was indistinguishable from Fidelism, but in view of this uneven development the vanguard is no longer coextensive with the entire movement.1974, Donald Clark Hodges, The Latin American Revolution, page 147. From the entry Fidelism
• It often happened that the exchange of commodies was so uneven that there were no funds in Bruges to settle accounts in Florence.1966, Denys Hay, Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, London: Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC. From the entry adroit
• One can be found in “Coming Back,” where Domo Genesis trades his signature smooth voice for an uneven, almost mid-pubescent sounding voice — and it’s actually very refreshing.2016, Domo Genesis’ new album is reminiscent of Odd Future ties, Badger Herald. From the entry mid-pubescent
• Since we often prefer to pound our own cutlets rather than buy uneven precut cutlets from the store, a meat pounder is an important piece of equipment.2014, The Cook's Illustrated Meat Book. From the entry pounder
• Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.2011, Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair. From the entry shiny
• CELLULITE — the dimpled, uneven skin that mars the backsides and thighs of women everywhere — is a scourge to bikini-wearers and a squelcher of lights-on romps in bed.2009 June 25, Catherine Saint Louis, “Treating Cellulite? It’s Still There”, in New York Times. From the entry squelcher
• In contrast to the 'cookie-cutter' uniformity of the oligodendroglioma nuclei, the astrocytomatous nuclei have a 'hand poured' quality with uneven edges, elongated profiles, and irregular density.2006, Roger McLendon, Marc Rosenblum, Darell Bigner, Russell & Rubinstein's Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System, page 67. From the entry astrocytomatous
• But given the uneven balance of technological power, some fear that the newly available media would only reinforce the established roles and simply make the same old monologue louder.1994 December 5, Fernando Gonzalez, “Flick of TV switch establishes shared memories”, in The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla., page 42SA, columns…. From the entry McDonalds-ization
• A one-bottom plantage plough does not fully turn the slice and leaves an uneven soil profile resulting in alternating bands of the plant stand in the first year.1967, A. S. Alov, “Soil selection. 1. Methods of the use of lower horizons to raise soil fertility”, in Agrochimica, volume 11, number 2…. From the entry plantage
• When the cracks are from top to bottom, i.e. longitudinal, it is usually because cooling, after the ingot has been taken out of the mould, has been uneven.1942, Eric N. Simons, Edwin Gregory, Steel Manufacture Simply Explained. From the entry roky
• "What made you harp upon the war, man, knowing what his opinions are?" the doctor asked vexedly, as he stumbled along the uneven stone passage towards the hall.1906, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Peter's Mother. From the entry vexedly
• It felt heavy and recalled feeling all the fabrics, they felt soft and rich, like thick butter and honey rubbed together, smooth but uneven as the silk had been woven.2011, Raul Angulo Coronel, The Cortez Coins: The Moctezuma Treasure, BookBaby, →ISBN. From the entry Romandia
• As Bruce was somewhat taken aback by this turn in the nonversation, as a witty friend used to term the appropriately uneven match of social skills, he simply asked why.2008, Maxim Jakubowski, Paris Noir: Capital Crime Fiction, page 266. From the entry nonversation

Meaning of uneven

1. adjective Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
2. adjective Not level or smooth.
3. adjective Not uniform.

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Questions about uneven in a sentence

How do you use uneven in a sentence?

Uneven is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.”

What is a short sentence with uneven?

“It’s uneven and full of speculative dot ­connecting.”

What does uneven mean?

Uneven means of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.