Example Sentences

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Most children have respiratory issues because the unelevated senzalas are filled with mold from Príncipe’s frequent rains.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018

Of course, this is true only of good art; the least trace of anything awkward or amateurish, and we remain in our unelevated state, our reality of blushing, stumbling, idiotic misunderstandings and blunders.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2015

The result is a pleasant movie to watch, if your idea of a good time is an unelevated pulse, but one that leaves no lasting impression.

From Time Magazine Archive

He takes ‘Caliban’, not perhaps exactly Shakespeare’s Caliban, but an analogous and worse creature; a strong thinking power, but a nasty creature—a gross animal, uncontrolled and unelevated by any feeling of religion or duty.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

It is altogether rather a pretentious affair, wherein one sees the evidence of substantial wealth unelevated by artistic grace or poetic grandeur.

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)