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.

The properties of combined elements are different from those in the free, or uncombined, state.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Phosphorus is the only member of its group that does not occur in the uncombined state in nature; it exists in many allotropic forms.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Most of the representative metals do not occur naturally in an uncombined state because they readily react with water and oxygen in the air.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

It follows that, as connected with the human will, emotion is never uncombined with thought.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

The amount of aethereal disturbance, produced by the combined atoms of a body, may be many thousand times that produced by the same atoms when uncombined.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John