Example Sentences

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Biologists found only 24 bird and five mammal species in those areas, far below normal in unsprayed forests.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025

In a 2016 study in a Swiss forest, researchers sprayed some trees’ leaves with a particular isotope of carbon and found that isotope showed up in unsprayed neighbors.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2023

The cows are outside all year round, grazing unsprayed land.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2021

Better to pick from a field where they have naturalized or, better yet, from your own organic, unsprayed garden.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2017

Professor Joseph Hickey and his students at the University of Wisconsin, after careful comparative studies of sprayed and unsprayed areas, reported the robin mortality to be at least 86 to 88 per cent.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson