Example Sentences

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And sadly, those five questions of 2012 remain as pertinent and unraised today as they were four years ago.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2016

But it’s interesting that so many members — more than 20, or nearly half the committee — took time off the campaign trail, leaving all those babies unkissed for now, all that the money unraised.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2012

It was full of holes and at some places the bread had no appearance of having "come up," which is kitchen parlance for unraised bread.

From The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island by Finlay, Roger Thompson

Pone is unraised corn-cake baked in the ashes, and said to be good for indigestion.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.