Example Sentences

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The second day is admittedly a bit more grimy: Anyone in coach or business class who stayed on the train overnight will be unshowered, and some of the bathrooms may smell unspeakably bad.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Upstairs, you hear the boys pounding on their mouse pads, still unshowered at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and you yell up to them to get dressed.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018

It was where he was sitting one late morning when Kirsten came in, saw him unshowered and in sweats and a sleeveless T-shirt, and wearily said, “Kam, have you let the dogs out?”

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2018

They were expecting someone different — older and paunchy and balding, perhaps, or maybe an unshowered teen with the remnants of last night’s microwaved burrito spilling down the front of a pitted T-shirt.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2016

Nor is Osiris seen In Memphian grove or green Trampling the unshowered* grass with lowings loud; Nor can he be at rest Within his sacred chest; Nought but profoundest hell can be his shroud.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas