Example Sentences

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Overcome by a sudden sense of modesty, one secretary, perched at a graceful but unprotective typewriter pedestal, recently sewed a minicurtain and draped it in front of her.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he durst not go near the pool, and Clare would be sure to get out again and be after him! so he stood with the hated creature in his unprotective arms.

From A Rough Shaking by MacDonald, George