Example Sentences

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The particles of vapor which float in the atmosphere absorb and hold the heat until it becomes like a steaming hot blanket that is death to unacclimated life.

From Arizona Sketches by Munk, J. A. (Joseph Amasa)

Really the mortality among the unacclimated in the Selma district at that time was excessive.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose

It most readily attacks strangers and the unacclimated, but no class is exempt.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The army made phenomenal forced marches through the desert, under a burning sun and in a climate famous for its power to kill the unacclimated.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir

The saddle horses, southern bred and unacclimated, humped their backs and curled their heads to the knee, indicating, with the closing day, a falling temperature.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy