Example Sentences

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Yet Hoover reigns unnoticed and unprotested, as if his attempts to destroy King did not matter.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2017

As in so many crises of the environment, plans for the $11.2 million dam went unprotested until nearly too late.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed to Ophie that the gift of the tortoiseshell comb—or rather, the unprotested theft—had changed Penelope slightly for the better.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

And, for the first time, it was not an adversary’s face Laila saw but a face of grievances unspoken, burdens gone unprotested, a destiny submitted to and endured.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

It was an idea, the idea of unprotested English authority in Ireland.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis