Example Sentences

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In recent weeks, the Cougs have left their Is undotted and their Ts without a cross, never more so than on these trick plays.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2023

I later went back to the bus lane to find it was undotted and had no advance warning lettering on the road - a requirement to indicate the beginning of a bus lane.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2023

“Everything winds up loose threads and dead ends—T’s remain uncrossed, I’s remain undotted, words remain unsaid, and pictures remain unfinished,” he says, after catching a glimpse of Dumont years later, during the film’s epilogue.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2016

I’ve won the writing prize twice, and I would have this week, too, but I decided to leave some i’s undotted.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

The grassy carpet of a dusky green hue stretched further than they could see, undotted even by a single tree, and the sky seemed colossal, spangling the bare horizon with the stars.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred