How to Use untried in a Sentence

untried

adjective
  • Still, all but Verse (7 ½ sacks last year) are untried.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2026
  • Along with that jerk pork, there’s a whole chicken that leaves few techniques untried.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That leaves the Rangers playing late in the season with a host of young and untried players.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • She was drawn to the way all these artists were using untried materials to make their statements.
    — Marilyn Bailey, star-telegram, 9 Feb. 2018
  • While untried adventures will always woo us, many of us hikers spend more time in the comfort zone.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
  • This was a time in pop music history when it was not really done that an untried artist was allowed to write any of their songs.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 13 July 2021
  • But the database’s users around the globe have managed to make just a fraction of these for testing, leaving thousands untried.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Virtually no tool of terror was left untried to silence dissent.
    — Nile Gardiner, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
  • But the process is still expected to be a long, expensive slog, requiring as-yet untried feats of engineering¾and not all the details have yet been worked out.
    — Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Or some as-yet untried, unorthodox blend of conservative and liberal ideas?
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But those plans are more expensive and untried, not to mention equally demanding on the fluid dynamics front.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Placing all of our bets on a small set of untried vaccine technologies would be gobsmackingly foolish.
    — Michael S. Kinch, STAT, 31 July 2020
  • The guilty verdict now strengthens the untried accusations of more than 60 other women.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Blocking—or even reducing—that radiation would mean adding weight to an already unproven craft on an untried human journey.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • And everybody’s role includes showing McKnight there might be a new, untried path to victory.
    — Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Lynching is the extrajudicial murder of an untried suspect, usually by a mob and often by hanging.
    — al, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Lumsdon’s 2007 murder case was one of Broward’s oldest pending untried cases.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • And finding a new commissioner would not only take months but may leave the West with an untried, inexperienced leader.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This kind of Lincolnian discourse has not been tried and found wanting in 2020, it has been found difficult and left untried.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Booker’s play under a new untried coach and equally inexperienced general manager has been promising for the whole team.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The current crisis highlights the need to talk to teens, and even tweens, about the dangers of novel drugs, both due to the risk of contamination but also the use of untried chemicals.
    — Wendy Stephen, Ph.d., miamiherald, 8 May 2018
  • Perhaps the bombs, which may not have entered production, were built to test fuzes or the penetration capability of new, untried nose assemblies.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Like passing a major overhaul of the tax system that includes a lot of new tax concepts or untried tax ideas to pay for it is very difficult when one single vote in the Senate can break it up.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Then came the senseless scheme of compelling some of the Soviet Union’s most productive farmers to abandon their land and move to the untried new collectives.
    — Adam Hochschild, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Phillips' execution has been delayed several times as death row inmates and death penalty opponents have challenged the state's untried protocol.
    — Jackie Borchardt, cleveland.com, 19 July 2017
  • Proving that a profitable, self-sustaining business can be created in an untried area is a way to get everyone else piling onto the new opportunity.
    — Tim O'Reilly, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • But like much of the Chicago fringe theater scene, the Rhino welcomes the unconventional, the untried, the unmarketable.
    — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Doing so will require the use the Super Heavy, a still untried rocket booster that will push Starship out of Earth’s gravity well.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The price cap attempts to defuse that possibility with a novel but untried plan to allow Russia to continue selling oil on the global market, but at a discount.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Back in the dot-com days of the late 1990s, a similar measure was favored by analysts trying to persuade investors to put money in untried companies.
    — Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018

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