UNTOUCHED in a Sentence

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Perplexed what to do, he looked into the parlour, and was vexed to find that the letter still lay there untouched.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNTOUCHED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
untouched
 a.  intact; not mentioned; not touched
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the other and stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She was still that young and untouched.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  She entered Melanie's room and saw that the breakfast tray was untouched.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  It might start the old lady's mind to working on channels better left untouched.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  The room was untidy, littered with cigar butts and dishes of untouched food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
6  His life, as they significantly call it, was untouched.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
7  The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
8  Miss Mayblunt begged to be allowed to keep her cocktail untouched before her, just to look at.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
9  His rifle lay untouched, and apparently unnoticed, within reach of his hand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
10  Marks was the only one who remained wholly untouched.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  At my behest the miser leaves his hoard untouched; at peace the mother sees her children play.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
12  And now she was untouched she took an almost perverse satisfaction in it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  The car stood untouched, a little dewy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say; and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she thought must interest.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  Perplexed what to do, he looked into the parlour, and was vexed to find that the letter still lay there untouched.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Example Sentence:
1  She sent back her breakfast tray untouched.
2  Six years of total war had left no citizen untouched.
3  Most of the east coast remains mercifully untouched by tourism.
4  Asian airlines remain untouched by the deregulation that has swept America.
5  The comet it had met was itself a visitor from the outer limits of the solar system and the dust particle it shed, and which Stardust caught, have been untouched since the Solar System formed billions of years ago.
6  The dust particles from the comet have been untouched since the Solar System formed billions of years ago.
7  We've got to change the present system in which high court judges are regarded as somehow untouchable.
8  I want to make it clear, however, that no one is untouchable in this investigation.
9  He was the boss's husband and therefore untouchable.
10  “With Jobs it was aspirational but somewhat untouchable and distant,” she says. “It seems much more open and accessible under Tim, and that's important as they want to extend the product range to a wide section of consumers."