untended
Example Sentences
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If untended, it has below the green top what some people call “petticoats” of dead leaves, but I think they look like those furry chaps that silent movie cowboys used to wear.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025
In untended fields, the cotton harvest was rotting.
From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2023
Nowadays the monument at the cemetery, untended, is covered in moss.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2023
Many are ignited either by lightning strikes or human activity, including untended campfires, unextinguished cigarettes, engine sparks and equipment malfunction.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022
The first of the town houses look empty: windows shuttered, doors locked, vegetable gardens overgrown and untended.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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