unstopped

British  

/ ʌnˈstɒpt /

adjective

1. not obstructed or stopped up

2. phonetics denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the closure is not complete, as in the pronunciation of a vowel, fricative, or continuant

3. prosody (of verse) having the sense of the line carried over into the next

4. (of an organ pipe or a string on a musical instrument) not stopped

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Example Sentences

The infernal machine will continue largely unstopped because there is a huge market for its poison.

From Salon

Gaterud, on her farm deep in the mountains of Humboldt County, said she feels betrayed by California and angry that she suffers while those flouting the law go unstopped.

From Seattle Times

But critics fear the combative tone of Polish leaders — who have recently compared the EU to the Soviet Union and used terms like “political enslavement” to describe Poland’s predicament in the standoff — could create momentum, which if unstopped, could accidently bring the nation to the exit door.

From Seattle Times

Unstopped, deforestation could turn much of the remaining Amazon forests into a degraded type of desert, possibly releasing over 50 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in 30 to 50 years, says Carlos Nobre, a climate scientist at the University of São Paolo in Brazil.

From Nature

Nine years later, with Iran licking at the Israeli border in Syria and settlement growth unstopped, one wonders how Obama will describe the encounter in his upcoming autobiography.

From Los Angeles Times

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