uninsulated
- a word derived from insulate.
Example Sentences
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He lived in an uninsulated shack, surrounded by garbage, and had a badly installed leaky toilet, causing water to seep into the floors, leaving them moist and rotted, the lawsuit said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
In central Paris, a thousand vulnerable people living in top-floor, garret apartments died because the city’s famous heat-absorbing zinc roofs turned their uninsulated homes into ovens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, there are approximately 76,000 containers of ethanol specimens, mostly stored in a World War-II-era Quonset hut, which is made from corrugated steel and is uninsulated.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2023
Despite this, he said that he is lucky because "there are people in uninsulated, un-heated, often unsafe vans and caravans, living hand to mouth on the streets of Bristol".
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2022
The floor was bare concrete, the walls uninsulated plywood.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
