Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

She read me old European fairy tales — Hans Christian Andersen, the uncandied Brothers Grimm.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019

What pleasure the flower can still give us, uncandied, and unbound, but in its own place and life, I will try to trace through some of its constant laws.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

Set downe in yce, which by hot greefe uncandied Melts into drops, so sorrow, wanting forme, Is prest with deeper matter.

From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)