Example Sentences

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Of course, Winnie the Pooh once provided a simpler explanation: Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022

Unboomed, uncheered, unsung, he had come to Kansas City to lay the corner stone of the Liberty Memorial which last week he came to dedicate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of the running plays, with the thunderous exception of Perry's one-yard touchdown rumble, went unnoticed and uncheered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sad and dreary was the march to Valley Forge, uncheered by the recollection of any recent triumph, as was the march to winter-quarters in the preceding year.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

For as the green forest, bereft of the dove, No more with sweet echoes would musical be— Even so is the rose-mantled bower of love, Unblest and uncheered, if not gladdened by thee.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various