How to Use unrestored in a Sentence

unrestored

adjective
  • Here, unrestored sections of wall switch back and forth along steep mountain passes.
    — Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The 56-year-old plane needs some work, unrestored and unaltered since Elvis last owned it.
    — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
  • The projections show how the unrestored, nonworking signs looked and flickered back in the day.
    — Spud Hilton, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • The wealthy homes were unrestored, but the unearthed mosaics and frescos were beautiful.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • It’s connected via a private path to an unrestored section of the Great Wall.
    — Jake Emen, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The complex is totally unrestored, with some portions reduced to huge piles of laterite bricks.
    — Lester V. Ledesma, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The church, completed in 1755, is the oldest unrestored stone church in the nation.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Sorokin and others worry that an unrestored Marshall could easily be bulldozed into a park or a greenspace.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The scale of what remains unrestored in India is significant.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Jiankou is one of the most dangerous sections of the Great Wall, known for its steep, often unrestored terrain.
    — Erin Tan, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • Categories include hot rods, classics, tuners, trucks, customs, choppers and rat rods along with unrestored originals and works in progress.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • Categories include hot rods, classics, tuners, trucks, customs, choppers, rat rods, unrestored original and works in progress.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Except for the paint, this 1966 Ford remains unrestored and original.
    — Maegan Gindi For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
  • While the Ferrari’s seats and door cards were recently returned to original Crema leather, the car is still very much unrestored and patinaed.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Even in the current unrestored state, the colors—black, white, gray, ocher, Pompeii red, deep maroon—are astonishingly intense.
    — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The light-weight rigid foam remains solid, and the original unrestored paintwork is in excellent condition, with only subtle flaking in small areas.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2022
  • Of the eight, five were put back on display unrestored, and two were brought back to their original condition by the General Motors heritage program.
    — Brian Silvestro, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Click here for more photos of this unrestored 1949 Talbot-Lago convertible.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 June 2023
  • Click here for more photos of this unrestored 1970 Lamborghini Miura.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 July 2024
  • Most are presented in unrestored, original condition and Palmen himself cars started them on a regular basis to keep the engines from being seized.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2023
  • For example, if a person is not breathing well during sleep (snoring or sleep apnea), this will disturb the normal sequences and cause the individual to awaken feeling unrestored.
    — Steven Bender, Quartz, 7 June 2019
  • This example of the car also has the advantage (or disadvantage, depending on your perspective) of being completely unrestored.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Only two other unrestored versions have ever earned higher ratings, per the Hollywood Reporter’s Aaron Couch.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
  • According to the duo’s 2021 paper in Water, a few of the new species proliferated, but most of the other species were similar to those in unrestored sections of the creek.
    — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Almost all of the original fossil bones remain on the pteranodon's remains and are essentially unrestored, meaning that artificial filler was not used to replace missing bone sections.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 July 2023
  • Gooding & Company has just announced the private sale of the only remaining unrestored 250 Testa Rossa.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The church at Mission Concepción, known as the nation’s oldest unrestored church, has been closed since January, to allow for placement of a metal rim around the base of its dome for stabilization.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Mission Concepción, which dates to 1755, is the oldest unrestored stone church in America, and visitors can see original frescoes in several rooms.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Among the collection of small towns and hamlets in the region is Litchfield, considered the finest unrestored Colonial town in America and celebrating its 300th birthday this year.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Because unrestored eutrophic lakes produce significant methane emissions, restoring lakes and recycling the sediments for agriculture could mean a net decrease in greenhouse gases reaching the atmosphere on an ecosystem scale, Kiani says.
    — Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 2 May 2023

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