RAW in a Sentence

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For RAW, below is one of 80 sentences:
She was silent, raw with the shameful thought that the attentive circle might have been criticizing her, laughing at her.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAW
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raw
 a.  in the natural unprocessed condition; cruel and unfair; uncooked; untrained and inexperienced
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  He was smiling, but in the dark depths of his eyes a tiny light flickered for a brief moment, like a small raw flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  His back was raw with sores and harness galls and he breathed as no sound horse should.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Her face was crimson with sunburn and her blistered palms raw.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  For a brief instant Scarlett saw the long hot days in the cotton field, felt again the terrible ache in her back, the raw bruised flesh of her shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  The edge in his voice spoke of a raw, unhealed wound that ached within him and his words brought shame to her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  The man rose and walked awkwardly toward her, his shackles clanking, and she saw that his bare ankles were red and raw from the chafing of the iron.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  To a less illuminated intelligence Mrs. Bart's counsels might have been dangerous; but Lily understood that beauty is only the raw material of conquest, and that to convert it into success other arts are required.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  If we're all the raw stuff of the cosmic effects, one would rather be the fire that tempers a sword than the fish that dyes a purple cloak.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  In that temple of art no raw beginners were wanted, and Miss Haines would have been more than human had she not taken a certain pleasure in seeing her forebodings confirmed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
10  On another side street a raw red-brick Catholic Church with a varnished yellow door.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  She was silent, raw with the shameful thought that the attentive circle might have been criticizing her, laughing at her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Her "reforms," her impulses toward beauty in raw Main Street, they had become indistinct.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  His hands were covered with red mittens through which protruded his chapped raw knuckles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chickens; the new breakings yielded the turnip-like rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  With surprising delicacy in his large fingers he unwrapped the towels and revealed an arm which, below the elbow, was a mass of blood and raw flesh.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  We have amassed the raw data and are about to begin analysing it.
2  This information is only raw data and will need further analysis.
3  The country has to import most of its raw materials.
4  Discover how eating raw food helps balance your body and aids digestion.
5  We import raw materials and energy and export mainly in-dustrial products.
6  He possessed a raw energy allied to a feeling of something special.
7  These fish are often eaten raw.
8  The idea of eating raw shellfish nauseates me.
9  Oil is an important raw material which can be processed into many different products, including plastics.
10  The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
11  The industry relies on the price of raw materials remaining low.
12  Higher raw material costs have pushed up the price of many manufactured goods.
13  We use high-quality raw material for our goods.
14  The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.
15  Europe saw its colonies as a source of raw material and a malleable workforce.