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.

She smiled to herself to think how little Conquest understood her when he ascribed to her the ambition to graft her ungarnered branch on the stock of a duly cultivated civilization.

From The Wild Olive by King, Basil

The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)

But the reapers sing not in thy wheatfields: Tall sheaves wait ungarnered, Though swallows are shrilling in the skies.

From Eidola by Manning, Frederic

The productions of her pen and pencil seem to justify this assertion, so far as the precocity of such a mere child may warrant the ungarnered fruits of future years.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various

He had looked, and listened, and resolved; and still he stood outside, ungarnered.

From The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy