shower
noun
a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
unshowered
-
a word derived from
shower.
Example Sentences
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But I could show up at the library — sometimes unshowered, with a child who’d refused to sleep more than an hour at a stretch the night before — and we were welcomed.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2020
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
Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers stood behind the podium in the guts of Sports Authority Field in Denver, a mile above sea level, unshowered, eye black still painted on his face and barefoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2017
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
