Example Sentences

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I am short, white, decidedly untoned and predisposed to frowns – clearly we were not the same person.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2017

One may theorise that the spider invaded the crab's burrow and was promptly evicted; a fight took place for possession of the retreat, resulting in untoned tragedy.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

The pigments chosen to harmonize with this display were necessarily body colors of the most pronounced lines, and were untoned by any trace of chiaroscuro.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot

As he did so, he slapped down two untoned prints.

From The Ear in the Wall by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

There is his home—a poor one, perhaps, but his own, and to it he clings with desperation, sees in and about it attractions and beauty where others perceive nothing but untoned dreariness, unrelieved hopelessness.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)