untended

Example Sentences

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The lot had previously been rented for various community and private events throughout the year, but otherwise it sat untended to.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

There have been stretches where “Night Country” has left the case untended, letting it thaw away in the background like the corpsicle at center ice.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

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

The first of the town houses look empty: windows shuttered, doors locked, vegetable gardens overgrown and untended.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell