Example Sentences

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As Packard’s helicopters near their target, punch through a “perpetual storm system” that girdles the island, and discover a paradise of unravished greenery, the movie lays out its credentials.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

Baiata and his cronies were on the point of sealing the deal with the Indianapolis bank—the signal for the looting to start—when they were rounded up and Lincoln Life remained unravished.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hither I can retreat And drink of peace where peace unravished stays.

From Beautiful Gardens in America by Shelton, Louise

The place is sealed, An unclaimed sovereignty of voiceless song, And all the unravished silences belong To some sweet singer lost, or unrevealed.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis

Particularly with the soil as it was then, unravished by revolution, with its original fertility unimpaired, it was rarely necessary to replant the sugar cane.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher