Example Sentences

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He said it’s logical that bigger runners have benefited more in the switch from uncushioned spikes to shoes with nearly an inch of super-responsive foam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

Rowling wrote on X: "Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

With uncushioned seat backs, the sound in the hall should be crisper.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

The political particulars and community-centered motives of the busing conflict, though historical, remain contemporary, uncushioned by time.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2015

In one corner was a spinning-jenny, in another an uncushioned settle, and opposite the fireplace a bureau or chest of drawers of native wood and home manufacture.

From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various