Example Sentences

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While they vowed defiance to Adolf Hitler's minions, capless and unribboned students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!"

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a blue car, a new dress, loose unribboned hair.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

Her head was uncovered, the shawl she wore over it having slipped down to her shoulders, and her abundant hair, unknotted and unribboned, was ruddy as spun gold.

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert

But the superb-eyed only settled himself lower down in his lounging attitude, and slowly withdrawing a small, unpretending, and unribboned glass from his vest pocket, steadily, yet not entirely insultingly, notwithstanding the circumstances, scrutinized Pierre.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

On her head was a hat unribboned and broad of brim, in her hand a basket.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Saltus, Edgar