Example Sentences

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The insects nipped at the faces of unanointed cats, but largely snubbed the felines that had gone gaga for the vines.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2021

Further fights erupted as units returned from Peking and started telling their unanointed comrades in the local Red Guard schools how things should be run.

From Time Magazine Archive

They may join the ragtag list of victims, victimizers, unanointed antiheroes and assorted foul balls about whom Newman has sung with stinging wit and unexpected compassion.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew his fellow creatures better than most men, knew that inner life which so seldom unfolds itself to unanointed eyes.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

He knew his fellow-creatures better than most men; knew that inner life which so seldom unfolds itself to unanointed eyes.

From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate