Example Sentences

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The Netherlands East Indies, so far unattacked, declared war in the knowledge that they would be attacked sooner or later.

From Time Magazine Archive

Massachusetts has taken the curious course of repealing her law forbidding the manufacture, transportation or importation of liquor, while leaving unattacked her law forbidding the sale of liquor.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to Tarzan, meat was meat; naught that was edible or tasty might pass a hungry Tarzan unchallenged and unattacked.

From Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Even adopting a mild view of the case, their reputation has not been unattacked, and is not left untarnished.

From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor

We cannot be always Medes and Persians, madam, to resist every temptation and keep unbroken every law, though you, sitting in your cushioned chair, in unattacked tranquillity, can tell us easily enough we should be.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida