Example Sentences

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As a stylist, she is subtle and superbly attentive, though her approach does leave a few darlings unkilled.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2019

After the use of the chemical diquat, the duckweed turns brown and sinks to the bottom, which can nourish unkilled weeds, effectively making matters worse.

From National Geographic

If he was not careful that lean, hungry-looking horse, with Garrison up, would swing out from the bunch, fresh, unkilled by pace-following, and beat him to a froth.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton)

How the old, thin tenement of life can go on living unkilled is a problem to solve.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

I could see that Mr. Brown was intently engaged in scanning the ground while speaking, as though he feared there might be a few of the varmints unkilled from the nest spoken of.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells