Example Sentences

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“He considered both theater and novels a foolish waste of time and recoiled from all games of chance, believing that they unwholesomely excited the mind.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

The breakfast muffins my fellow participants and I were given were an off-putting shade of indigo, unwholesomely oily and had to be washed down within 10 minutes with yucky-flavoured milk.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2019

"One who imbibes unwholesomely large quantities of strong green tea, and sees hobgoblins peering at her through the window-panes!" said Rosa, sarcastically artless, tripping by in season to overhear this clause of his small-talk.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

On the moorland face the silver flowes glittered unwholesomely, deadly as quicksands in the Bay of Luce.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Stifling nights followed sultry, drenching days, till vegetation everywhere sprouted unwholesomely and the mountain slopes had almost the reek of tropic jungles.

From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius