ungathered
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Unpleasant realities are often ignored; critical data often go ungathered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the peasantry are immense quantities of ungathered legends and beliefs.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Patches of unripe grain the reaper leaves; And here and there ungathered are the sheaves.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
We came finally to the point of calling at every house where any crops lay ungathered, desperately in hope of securing something to do.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
The ripening grain is left ungathered in the fields, and the fruit of the vineyards is trodden under foot.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Robert Elliott Flickinger
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