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

To marry with an unconsenting heart is more so," replied Constantia; "I was betrothed to Eustace Evellin, and living or dead, to him will I ever be faithful.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

Hannah Perrott had anticipated the operation of the Maternity Society letter, and another child of the Jago had come unconsenting into its black inheritance.

From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur

Granted that he was a villain, double-dyed and beyond hope, yet he was the home of such courage, such virility, that her unconsenting admiration went out in spite of herself.

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