Example Sentences

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While the movie may not have the insight of D. A. Pennebaker’s “Don’t Look Back” or even Phil Joanou’s U2 travelogue, “Rattle and Hum,” Pearl Jam devotees will not go home musically unnourished.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2011

Mr. Whishaw, who played Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 movie of “Brideshead Revisited,” has the unnourished body of a London youth reared on wartime rations.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2011

And the forest once gone, land and water shrivel, unnourished, leaving a desert amid charred stumps and the white phantoms of dead pines.

From The Reckoning by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

What can you expect from starved minds, human intellects unnourished by all that you find so wholesome?

From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Nor was this hope left to wither unnourished in the mind of the high-bred and courageous English girl.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson