How to Use unsullied in a Sentence

unsullied

adjective
  • Zach Plesac is down to three unsullied digits on his right hand.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The blue of the sky seemed deep, continuous, uniform and unsullied.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Still, every few minutes, a treasure hunter finds an unsullied remnant and places it in a tote bag or basket for safe keeping.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The team anticipates about half a pound of unsullied asteroid dirt.
    — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Its haze seemed to smear and smudge the blue above somewhat, detracting from what might otherwise have seemed an unsullied sort of summer idyll.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • Bronn and Jaime watch from above as the army of the Unsullied approach the Lannister forces.
    — Chanel Vargas, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Aug. 2017
  • For those who have lost everything so others can appear unsullied, the only recourse may be getting what they’re owed in blood.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 June 2026
  • The upper layers act as a buffer, leaving the surface largely unsullied.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2018
  • This is pure, unsullied Sicily at its best before even the Ancient Greeks got their deft hands on the island.
    — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the perception that the great leaders of old were unsullied by the provincialism of today does not often stand up to scrutiny.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Doesn't an unsullied horizon allow for serendipity and wonder?
    — Rachel Simmons, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
  • My son prefers meat and sauce only, left unsullied by carrots, celery, or anything remotely vegetal.
    — Eric Velasco, al, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Scenes from Pirates of the Caribbean were filmed across the island because of its unsullied beauty.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The red caps and the presidential campaign were still to come but back then, his reputation as the king of style was relatively unsullied.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Raymond shows that the sweet, ingenuous Nina is unsullied by the lack of manners, etiquette and good taste that typifies most of her peers.
    — Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The area, within the city limits of Jacksonville, is on the unsullied, windswept edge south of affluent Amelia Island.
    — Bob Rountree, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Astronomers who rely on unsullied skies for their profession and members of the general public who enjoy the natural beauty of what lies above stand to lose out.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Yes, control of cycling resources are [sic] important, as are safe spaces to ride one’s bike, but the power of whiteness within cycling remains unsullied.
    — WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • Other, more fortunate asteroids managed to remain largely unchanged from the birth of the solar system, and as time marches on, those unsullied rocks grow more and more scarce.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Some prefer the components of a meal served separate and unsullied, with nothing touching; others can fully enjoy them only when the flavors mingle in a pot.
    — Bee Wilson, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2016
  • The lodge’s space station-like minimalist look is designed to complement the stark landscape, and wide-open starry nighttime skies unsullied by light pollution.
    — Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But the prosecutor leading the case against the Tates, Rareș Stan, had an unsullied reputation.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • The attorneys who represent oligarchs have managed to remain largely unsullied by their unsavory doings.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • However, because Grey Worm is Unsullied — meaning he was castrated as an infant — some wondered if the pair would ever act on their feelings.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 23 July 2017
  • Writing today in the journal Nature, scientists showed how vital herbivorous fish and unsullied waters keep this system in balance.
    — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But some people are motivated less by considerations of capital flows and more by a desire to have clean hands — to feel unsullied by the fossil-fuel industry and its grievous legacy.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • And the inspiration remains — timeless and pure, unsullied by subtext or character development.
    — Robert Isenberg, Longreads, 26 Apr. 2022
  • McKnight deftly harnesses standard metaphors — the tree as home to the spirit, sanctuary of the soul; the landscape as an unsullied Eden set against a fraught humanity — and turns them to his own ends.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Some on the left were hopeful that the unsullied voices of teenagers, cutting through the usual tussle over whether gun control advocates were politicizing a tragedy, would move previously unbudgeable lawmakers.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Threads that are, for example, six-foot-tall and score 21 league goals in a season, including the two that ensured Saturday’s trophy celebrations were wholly unsullied.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 17 May 2026

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