Example Sentences

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Dismantled, half-roofless, its great halls, unsheltered and unsheltering, it was wasting fast under the elements into picturesque but irreparable ruin.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

Otherwise how comes this beautiful and perfect city, here on the unfriendly and unsheltering waste?

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin