Example Sentences

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At intellectual Trinity College, Cambridge, he lived unsociably with a pet snake and an owl, spent his vacations duck-hunting and sailing.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Ump!” grunted Mr. Thomas unsociably, and at that moment one of the Mexicans, out of awkwardness, dropped his gun.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

They unsociably read their evening papers as they ate, and left before he finished.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith

Old London seemed to wrap itself up unsociably in its mantle of brown smoke, and to offer no encouragement to such a couple of tatterdemalions.

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

Once I dropped in on him but found him unsociably surrounded by microscopes and a very sensitive arrangement for taking microphotographs.

From The Dream Doctor by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)