untenanted

Example Sentences

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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

Instead, the relationship of Australia to its pre-European past is like that of the coastal cities to the vast and untenanted wilderness which constitutes the majority of its landmass.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2013

The parks have now been covered with more terraced housing, all meant to be let out, but half of which stands untenanted.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2012

It led to a home-building binge that now, as Ireland enters another year of contraction, has left empty houses clustered in untenanted “ghost estates.”

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2010

Today, the docks were empty of commerce, the wide squares untenanted.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson