Example Sentences

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In the end, "she" and "he" lie side by side in bed, untouching, distant relatives by marriage; their bleak lives infinitely poorer than those of their impoverished neighbors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, left to ourselves alone, solitary, we will become the same joyless, zestless, untouching lone animals.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

They walk briskly, arms up, untouching, into a sterile box.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

I recollect as well as if it 'us yesterday, Lahoma a-setting there with her legs untouching of the floor, learning 'A' and 'B' and asking thousands of questions and getting herself civilized.

From Lahoma by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)

The piper piped a shriller psalm, The dancers thro' their mystery moved, Untouched, untouching, and the twirl That set our giddy heads awhirl, Served but to give their faces calm.

From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Jacob, Robert Urie