Example Sentences

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The garden was dressed for winter — bare branches, untenanted beds, patches of dirt.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2022

As she said of her subjects, “I go so out of myself and into them that, after they leave, I sometimes feel horrible. I feel like an untenanted house.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021

We need to rediscover what we treasured in those regular 48 hours of untenanted time.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2020

Neither of them dealt with Youssouf Mulumbu's long punt forward, each blaming the other as Peter Odemwingi rolled the ball into an untenanted net.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2011

But Bobby’s untenanted look owed itself not to vapidity but to a certain lack of interest in the world around him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady