Example Sentences

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Yet vast stores of unextracted coal, gas and oil are viewed as prime assets by fossil-fuel interests.

From Nature • Jul. 11, 2013

Last month, a passing wannabe miner got into another man's mine and rifled a lode of opals that the owner had opened up but left unextracted.

From Time Magazine Archive

They pass through the system with much nutriment unextracted.

From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes

Quickly I serve up Some fish exactly boil'd; retaining all His juice, and all his unextracted flavour; A dish which, any free-born man must know How to appreciate rightly.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

The increased concentration of the second sample is due to unextracted bleach passing out of the mixing tank and gradually becoming leached as the tank contents are run off.

From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph