Example Sentences

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It is exactly the white of the icing of a cake, and has the same unemphasized and scarcely perceptible polish.

From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Twain, Mark

Marvell's tone was always so light, so unemphasized, that she could not be sure of its being as indifferent as it sounded.

From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith

These speculations were unemphasized sensations rather than articulated thoughts, for Wilson would have laughed at the idea of seriously connecting Tom with the murder.

From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Twain, Mark

Stephen Eaton could have conceived nothing more merciless than this man's callous pronouncement, than the calm certainty of his unemphasized words.

From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod