Example Sentences

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Isn’t education about how to avoid transmission preferable to performing irreversable surgery on unconsenting infants?

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Not only because of the outrage to unconsenting Ulster, but also because Britain, having just got rid of one Heligoland to the East, will not permit another to start up on the West.

From A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge by Wister, Owen

After one of these struggles—when she had given in to the force of circumstances, but still unconsenting and rebellious—Maverick fell back, and ranged his horse by her other side.

From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock

His gay courage held her unconsenting admiration even while she resented it.

From Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West by Raine, William MacLeod