Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He paid his creditors, no one knew how, for his father had left nothing to him unentailed; and once out of money difficulties, he seemed in no hurry to plunge into them again.

From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Cholmondeley, Mary

Your grandfather made a legal conveyance of an unentailed property, got some ready money,—how much I never knew,—and came away.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

Month by month I realized that it was more and more difficult to get the brokers to renew my bills, or to cash any further post-obits upon an unentailed property.

From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Our unentailed possessions in Courland are, as you are aware, considerable; the half that falls to me I am willing to renounce, but in favour of his family.

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

You see his property was unentailed and he left it all to me.

From The Ancient Allan by Haggard, Henry Rider