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

I moved myself and my paints into what until then had been an uninsulated pool house.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Three, if you must spend fifty hours in an uninsulated attic in Maine, spring is probably the best time of year to do it.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline