UNCHECKED in a Sentence

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If present trends go/continue unchecked there will be a major epidemic of heart disease in the next five years.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNCHECKED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unchecked
 a.  not held in check; unrestrained; not examined for accuracy, efficiency
Classic Sentence:
1  A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  The cruel work was still unchecked.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  They meet and clasp hands, and, sitting down within the house, at length enjoy unchecked converse.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
4  The newspapers, the gossip of the village, his own picturings, had aroused him to an uncheckable degree.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
2  If present trends go/continue unchecked there will be a major epidemic of heart disease in the next five years.
3  Someone accustomed to exercising authority may become autocratic if his or her power is unchecked.
4  But despite increasingly severe warnings from scientists and a major economic recession, global emissions have continued to soar unchecked.