Example Sentences

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“Green Gables” is rife with complications like these; it’s an artifact from a different time that, instead of being outdated, speaks to ours in an uncanned, unpredictable voice.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2017

Unsound food, canned or uncanned, may, of course, injure health, and where canned food really has done harm, the harm has in all probability been due to the food and not to the can.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

It takes 15 to 20 acres of land in Texas to grow cotton enough to buy 160 bushels of canned sweet potatoes, while one acre of Texas soil would produce the same quantity, and uncanned.

From Community Civics and Rural Life by Dunn, Arthur William