How to Use untended in a Sentence

untended

adjective
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  • My mother, alone and untended for the first time in her life, in need of a good match, laughing at...jokes?
    — refinery29.com, 9 July 2018
  • Aurore stopped at one of them, making her way through its untended lawn to the front door.
    — Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • And a lot of us grow up like a weed in the crack in the sidewalk someplace—untended, unguided.
    — John J. Lennon, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The yard at Dina’s house is brown and untended; a play set that once belonged to Max sits in the sun unused.
    — Sean Elder, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Lula and Simba had lived for months in their own untended waste.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Inevitably, like weeds in an untended garden, the leukemia cells would grow and take over his blood system again.
    — Alice Park, Time, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Just down the street, thousands of chickens clucked in an untended poultry shed.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • No one seemed to know for sure, but rumor had it that deep inside the 10 acres of dark, untended woods on the church property, a stream might flow.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • The first is related to safety and Metro stations that can feel lonely and untended.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But the memory of those who died has largely gone untended in Chamonix.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Dean steals cars where the others are scarcely capable of filching a loaf of bread from an untended grocery.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Negele warns of untended campfires and sparks from vehicle tailpipes catching on high grass.
    — Kate Massinger, Slate Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
  • This spring, some untended gardens are testaments to that loss.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
  • Pokeweed, a thug by summer’s end, is already eight feet tall in untended areas.
    — Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • For more than a century, the slave cemetery at Mount Vernon was left untended; bushes and weeds obscured the 1929 marker.
    — Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • That would give players a week to get a deal ratified and give MLB time to start putting together the offseason details that have been left untended.
    — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • What few subplots there are go largely untended once the fight machine grinds into motion.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Healthy-seeming bees would simply fly away and never come back, leaving behind combs full of honey and a dying, untended queen.
    — Thor Hanson, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • Crops were going untended; paralysis began to settle on the hills ...
    — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Club 100, long closed, stands across an untended garden from the main residential blocks, a row of concrete, modernist style buildings faced with marble at their base.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • As cheaper overseas imports put Hawaiian plantations out of business in the end of the 20th century, that land sat untended.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Dressed in oversized clothes, wearing her hair in the long, untended style her mother favors, Old Dolio has the vocal mannerisms and body language of an outcast teenage boy.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
  • Landscaping is reduced to untended shrubs and patches of gravel, dirt and malnourished lawn.
    — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
  • For a world that's grown numb to wave after wave of infection, the images of patients dying due to a lack of oxygen while others lie untended on the floor are a brutal reminder that this pandemic is far from over.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 8 May 2021
  • Nearly two million others have abandoned their homes and remain scattered around the country, leaving behind ghost towns and untended fields.
    — Megan Specia and Kassie Bracken, New York Times, 30 May 2018
  • Without microglia to trim them back, the germ-free fishes’ social neurons became tangled and overgrown like an untended bramble.
    — Joanna Thompson, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Each section of a garden grows independently and, left untended, will die.
    — Jane Hanson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Left untended, these patients, many with dementia or psychiatric illnesses, might get out of bed and hurt themselves.
    — Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel, and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards.
    — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel, and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards.
    — William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017

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