Example Sentences

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With George Abbott to stage the show, no character very long remains stationary, no telephone silent, no door unentered; noises abound, gadgets accumulate, throngs assemble.

From Time Magazine Archive

Being unused for its proper object, and too small for a bed-chamber, it had been closed, and appeared as if it had been unentered for years.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 by Various

The chapel which had been wont to recall Lambert most painfully to her mind was now unentered.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

A search performed by the jerquer of the customs, after a vessel is unloaded, to see that no unentered goods have been concealed.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

He went into his own room, unentered by him for many months, now his own room no more, and dropped heavily into the familiar chair at the familiar desk.

From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)