unsharpened

Example Sentences

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Now there is a vast wasteland of broken sticks, dirty towels and unsharpened skates stretching from Long Island to Midtown Manhattan to New Jersey.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

In the city of Waco, voters were given unsharpened pencils, rather than finger caps, and told to use the erasers to operate the machines without touching them.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2020

Major U.S. retailers stock boxes of sharpened and unsharpened Dixon pencils, with some selling 30-packs for about $6.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2018

VR is still in its clumsy, crude, awkward, unsharpened infancy — it’s not even close to where it’s going to be.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2017

Ten minutes later, I was in line at Kmart, buying three spiral notebooks, a new calculator, a pack of unsharpened pencils, and a pack of Skittles.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King