untended
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The lot had previously been rented for various community and private events throughout the year, but otherwise it sat untended to.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
There have been stretches where “Night Country” has left the case untended, letting it thaw away in the background like the corpsicle at center ice.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
In untended fields, the cotton harvest was rotting.
From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2023
Nowadays the monument at the cemetery, untended, is covered in moss.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2023
Since then it had spread like weeds in an untended garden, strangling whatever life grew in its way.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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