Example Sentences

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While most states now have some kind of computer-crime laws, those laws often go uninvoked, largely because such crimes are still rare and prosecutors have little experience with them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most problems and worries are based on defective, uninvoked functions.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley

This angel fell into disrepair; and some suspicions were entertained that he designed visiting, uninvoked, the surface of the earth.

From Choice Readings for the Home Circle by Anonymous

The phantoms of the past are dead for thee; So let them ever uninvoked remain, And be thou calm, till death shall set thee free.

From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by Aytoun, W. E. (William Edmondstoune)

This angel was out of repair; and some suspicions were entertained that he designed visiting, uninvoked, the surface of the earth.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various