unentered
Britishadjective
-
not having been entered previously
-
(of hounds) not having been put into a pack yet
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.
With George Abbott to stage the show, no character very long remains stationary, no telephone silent, no door unentered; noises abound, gadgets accumulate, throngs assemble.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chapel which had been wont to recall Lambert most painfully to her mind was now unentered.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
If I might keep the bare room sacred to my meditations, all unentered save by myself!
From Jewel Weed by Harrison Fisher
He went into his own room, unentered by him for many months, now his own room no more, and dropped heavily into the familiar chair at the familiar desk.
From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
To leave the right room unentered gave away my first chance in the unequal battle with Brande.
From The Crack of Doom by Robert Cromie
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
