How To Use Kempt In A Sentence

I looked up into the sparkling eyes of a heavyset man with gray, unkempt hair and a white goatee.
And then, like a walking, unkempt buzzkill, the campground security showed up.
Norman took me into his unkempt, barren back garden to show me the only thing which he could boast of - his four fat white rabbits.
His hair is unkempt and his clothes scruffy; his eyes are red and he seems permanently on the point of tears. Times, Sunday Times
There he stood before a figure with a long black robe and frizzled, unkempt white hair poking out at odd angles from beneath a black hat.

There was a gate near the car that led into an unkempt path through the forest. THE EXECUTION
I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens. The Sun
I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other.
Even the tsotsis, the unkempt street ruffians of the 1930s, began to embrace the quest for style in the 1950s.
Tough executives are tacitly understood to be well kempt on the outside, whilst inwardly crumbling, decaying, turning to sludge.
It was a ragged, unkempt pony, pitifully poor and very footsore, at first sight, an absolute "moke"; but a second glance showed colossal round ribs, square hips, and a great length of rein, the rest hidden beneath a wealth of loose hair. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
native vistas and unkempt rambling paths
KEMPTON, Pa. — Bird-watchers at a ridgetop preserve in eastern Pennsylvania counted a record number of migrating bald eagles this fall, another sign of the species' remarkable comeback following a century of decline. Record Number Of Eagles In Sanctuary Hints At Species Comeback
You use these processes to convert your physical state from sleepy and unkempt to bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
This means that the cemetery has a very untidy, unkempt appearance but this will soon change.
Roy's pale skin turned grey, matching his unkempt hair, which had been mousy brown the last time she'd seen him. CHAMELEON
Families mourned for periods of up to one year, with some family members expressing grief by blackening their faces, chests, and hands with charcoal and maintaining an unkempt appearance.
John Kempton, in spite of his inner feelings, was profuse in his apologies. UNTO THE GRAVE
They all looked bewildered and unkempt and had apparently had a very long journey.
A pint-sized Messiah with scary eyes and an unkempt beard, he throws tantrums rather than casting a spell.
The Paynim hastened to the dungeon, and brought forth the Count, bearded, unkempt and foredone. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
I notice how nicely her nails are rounded and polished with pearl white, and how kempt she is.
a nicely kempt beard
Mercifully, she could still dream of the expansive Havana avenues, the grand casinos before the revolution, the kempt plazas where she would linger with her lover.
It was never a formal or tidy place, the very opposite of our municipal cemeteries and more like an unkempt churchyard.
His silvery hair was unkempt, blood and bruises marred his slender body and he was skinnier than when he had come in.
Quentin also recalls the ‘dirty’ Natalie, and his lost moment of intimate plenitude, which he in some way wants to recover through closeness with the unkempt Italian girl.
Even the tsotsis, the unkempt street ruffians of the 1930s, began to embrace the quest for style in the 1950s.
Unclean, unkempt, clothed in rags and hunger and madness, he saw himself victorious, heroic and beautiful.
I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
Janet chuckled and tousled his unkempt gingery hair.
She was mightily impressive when finally opening her account at Kempton Park last time and can follow up. Times, Sunday Times
Together with his unkempt mop of wavy brown hair and his scraggly beard, his appearance was most intimidating.
While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt and desecrated.
A city so reliant on tourism will deter repeat visits if it looks filthy or unkempt.
He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin ', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell. Archive 2009-06-01
The rough and unkempt textures of the horses coats attests to their wildness.
After this outburst the man slept gently on, while the little girl still held the parasol aloft and looked down with a great wonder at the frowsy, unkempt creature, trying to reconcile it with the little part of life that she knew. THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
The suspect, described as heavyset, unkempt and mentally unbalanced, is thought to be driving a ABC News: Top Stories
Sporting an unkempt beard and shaggy crop, he makes Robinson Crusoe look like GQ's Man of the Year.
THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens. The Sun
It was a shabby, straggly, unkempt little regiment, their faces chapped, their noses running in the cold.
The man allowed him to turn around and looked him up and down, taking in the rumpled clothes and unkempt hair.
Even if you accept that we Brits might look alike to our Stateside counterparts - pallid and vaguely unkempt with teeth the wrong side of ''eggshell'' - this is a stretch. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
To his surprise he found there a Boer with a long, unkempt bearda "backvelder," or, as we call it, a "takhaar," of the most pronounced type.
Barefoot and with hair unkempt, hippies paid 9p to stay on rooftops in the old town. Times, Sunday Times
An agenda committee appointed at the conclusion of the multiparty planning conference in Kempton Park on Saturday meets this week to start addressing a range of issues which need to be settled before constitutional talks can begin in what is provisionally being called the multiparty forum (MPF). ANC Daily News Briefing
Derek North, 81, did not at first pay much attention to Hobson - unkempt, unshaved, dressed in a lumberjack shirt and dirty jeans - when he came in to buy cigarette papers, matches, and a bottle of water.
His hair is unkempt and his clothes scruffy; his eyes are red and he seems permanently on the point of tears. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, the bushes are uneven in setting out and in growth, unkempt and massively overgrown.
Thus, from the combined effects of the ecclesiastical lancet lights and the apsidal shape of the room, it occurred to Christopher that the sisters were all a delightful set of pretty saints, exhibiting themselves in a lady chapel, and backed up by unkempt major prophets, as represented by the forms of their big brothers. The Hand of Ethelberta
And, referring to my unkempt, bushy eyebrows, she said, “You look just like Brooke Shields!” You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again
Barefoot and with hair unkempt, hippies paid 9p to stay on rooftops in the old town. Times, Sunday Times
Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way. No Uncertain Terms
Kempton is a right-handed track, which is 1m 5f round - although the course shape is more of a triangle.
He was pulled up at Kempton in 2013 with an irregular heartbeat and was off the track for more than a year. The Sun
As Nicholls puts it, Kauto Star, normally known as a docile and placid beast, is "mad fresh, really well in himself", having been brought to peak fitness for today's King George VI Chase at Kempton, which he has dominated over the past four years. Paul Nicholls has Kauto Star ready for historic King George Chase bid
He had a full - blown mustache and beard, both of which were scraggly and unkempt.
He races like a stayer, and who knows, we might even have a crack at the King George VI chase at Kempton and even the Gold Cup at Cheltenham.
Her place was unkempt, smelled of overworn laundry and rotting dill. Aching Hours
The facility appeared "unkempt" and some of the fish tanks were dirty, Brzezinski said. KTVU.com - Local News
There were sprawling grounds running down to the water, with unkempt meadows and wooded with aged deciduous trees.
The lone exception is basketball, where the uniforms just hang down all unkempt and frowzy.
Snow Ridge registered a 3 length romp in his maiden debut at Kempton on September 6.
They had been teasing him mercilessly about his unkempt ginger barnet. The Sun
In terms of the ornaments of the liturgy, sometimes the altar is set up in a way that is untidy, such as crooked candles that could easily be straightened or unevenly spaced candlesticks that a few more minutes of preparation could rectify; unkempt vestments, altar linens, cassocks and surplices for servers are sometimes also in evidence, as are servers visibly wearing informal clothing beneath their cassock. Ars Celebrandi as it relates to the Usus Antiquior
At Trinity Hall, the thirteenth day of October, 1704, in presence of John Findlay, deacon, compeared John Watson, John Youngson, William Pirie, John Kempt, Patrick Gray, John Mair, and George Gray, and submitted themselves to the court of the Wright and Coupar Trade for their abuse therein in contravening and vilipending the deacon and other mis-demeanours.
The man was about thirty and unshaven, his unkempt, blonde hair knotted like some Rastafarian.
No one knows what period this mass of unkempt grave mounds belongs to.
Their hair is unkempt; they are missing teeth. Christianity Today
Once the track is finished, Kempton will no longer offer flat racing on the turf, which will be reserved for steeplechase events.
I wore it to some rather posh restaurants and not once did I feel scruffy or unkempt.
The bundle of clothes stirred and a fairly groggy Sukari sat up, hair surprisingly kempt despite her burrowing into the pillows during the night.
He ran a hand through his unkempt dark hair with undisguised weariness.
Rough stubbles of wispy hair were developing on his dimpled chin and his rough curling sandy brown hair was unkempt and tousled wildly.
His pale, blond hair stuck out unkemptly, almost looking silvery under the dim light.
Speaking at a joint Burundi/SA Women in Dialogue (SAWID) conference in Kempton Park, Mbeki said Burundi had three months to draft and debate a constitution, call a referendum to vote on it, develop an IEC, and demilitarise the country - in order to hold free and fair elections on October 31. ANC Daily News Briefing
He had blonde unkempt hair but respectably short sideburns, and he wore blue jeans and one of those awful V-neck golfing sweaters.
an ukempt appearance
It was a far cry from her appearance in court last week when her hair was unkempt and she wore a baggy grey sweatshirt. The Sun
Glassner, with her charmingly unkempt curls, crocheted dress, and Brooklyn ZIP code, has already upstaged the other fashion editors, whose dramatic hair (peroxide blonde, flat-ironed) and outfits (stilettos, leather) seemed almost boringly predictable.
An unkempt coat will provide a refuge for parasites, and if soiled with faecal matter is likely to attract flies.
Because of his unkempt appearance people would shy away from him. The Sun
Mrs Kempton failed to comply with the notice.
A small girl kept her distance and looked on from beneath the unkempt fringe of a straggle of ravenesque hair.
The less direct route only meant crossing the corners of two fields and riding down the center of one unkempt casaran orchard. Alector's Choice
He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell. Monsters from the Id
If an untidy person is unkempt, why is a tidy person not kempt?
On the other end of the phone, half the country away, is Vinnie, an unkempt, badly shaven, slovenly dressed loser.
This means that the cemetery has a very untidy, unkempt appearance but this will soon change.
We were at Kempton when he won the King George and we just thought that maybe this was going to be his day.
I'm quite pleased with myself because I'm going about looking not quite as kempt as usual.
Together with his unkempt mop of wavy brown hair and his scraggly beard, his appearance was most intimidating.
Make sure there are no loose threads hanging or buttons about to pop off that would give you an unkempt appearance. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
During the tour, the press vilified the rockers as bad-mouthed, loud, gaudy and unkempt.
If the garden is unkempt, unhealthy or dying, it is considered to be draining the energy.
If you can cope with leaving part of your lawn unkempt then your garden will really benefit.
He peers out from under his scruffy, unkempt hair with a slackjawed, apprehensive expression.
His black hair was smooth, styled, kempt, and it hung only to his ears.
Two of the works, Cage's clangorous First Construction in Metal and Skempton's hypnotic Lento, are relatively well known, but both Cardew's Bun No 1 and Feldman's Piano and Orchestra will be receiving their London premieres. This week's new live music
Unkempt and disordered, bedaubed with mud that had dried upon him, and with much of his clothing torn to rags, he had but just dropped into his easy – chair, when Mr. Grewgious stood before him. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
His hair was almost as disheveled and unkempt as mine, and he was the first baboon in the troop who ever interacted with me.
Dozens of unkempt flowering bushes sprawled everywhere, unattended for as long as I could remember.
Kempton's Racing Post Chase is traditionally one of the most competitive handicaps in the calendar, but no-one told jockey Richard Johnson and pint-sized Gunther McBride.
Obviously the most problematic is the one about people who have unkempt or sloven appearances, which is not only highly subjective but also have only a tenuous at best relationship to potential misuse of firearms. The Volokh Conspiracy » Consumer Supremacy?
He was evidently brimful of mischief -- his expression betokened it; no doubt he was one of the most thorough little scamps that ever played at "morra," but there was a charm about his handsome dirty face and unkempt hair, and I watched him amusedly, glad to be distracted for a few minutes from the tired inner workings of my own unhappy thoughts. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
an unkempt garden
Some have beards or unkempt hair; all have an unassuming manner. Times, Sunday Times
Make sure there are no loose threads hanging or buttons about to pop off that would give you an unkempt appearance. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
She raked her fingers through the wild, unkempt gardens of her hair.
The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.
The old colonial building with a wild and unkempt garden around was unlit and silent.
If that doesn't deserve a trophy, I don't know what does - preferably one that weighs about seven grains and fits nicely in the middle of his unkempt unibrow.
The highly publicized, well-financed opposition to the controversial Cape Wind project off Nantucket Sound “is an anomaly,” Kempton said. Offshore Wind: The Best Energy Investment America Could Make?
This man was ill, ritually unclean, unkempt, probably physically repulsive, an outcast from society, and unqualified to approach God at the temple, but Jesus felt compassion.
Make sure there are no loose threads hanging or buttons about to pop off that would give you an unkempt appearance. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
He had long unkempt hair and a stubbly chin.
Contemporary photos show a nondescript, unkempt home, not a “big, rambling, orchard-embowered house” with a dooryard neat enough to eat off. Land of Green Gables
The film opens with an unkempt man being rousted out of bed when the police break down his front door.
Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair. The War of The Worlds
Instead of people with unkempt hair and raggedy clothes, there were well-dressed servants and slaves, and an occasional noble riding by.
Golden chains crept their way like unkempt vines across dark, mahogany shelves in between elegant cameos and glittering rings.
The swan nest at Kempten Promenade, which was on danger of being swept away by the rising waters of the Garavogue River, is now inhabited by a duck and six ducklings.
You poor fog-begirt Dane Kempton, could you but have lounged with me on the window couch, an hour past, and watched the light pass out of the day through the Golden Gate and the night creep over the Berkeley Hills and down out of the east! Kempton-Wace Letters
Worse, mom constantly ridiculed Betty, belittling her long nose and unkempt manner of dress.
In this environment the subtle yet unmistakable frontier, where the manicured lawn brushes against the unkempt one, is enough to disturb the peace of the neighbourhood.
Shabby squeak-toys and the headless action figures of a thousand neglectful tots rose from the unkempt lawns.
-- There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt and perfumed, and every day smell of the tailor; the exceedingly curious that are wholly in mending such an imperfection in the face, in taking away the morphew in the neck, or bleaching their hands at midnight, gumming and bridling their beards, or making the waist small, binding it with hoops, while the mind runs at waste; too much pickedness is not manly. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Almost immediately, a scruffy youth approached me, his unkempt appearance readily identifying him as a candyman.
Freddie, who, shaken up in his small cage for three days in an ekka, seemed in piteous plight, feathers (what there were of them) ruffled and unkempt, and eyes dim and half closed. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
He was a bit windswept, his hair rather unkempt and his jacket wrinkled, after riding such a long way on horseback, but he looked the same as ever to the girls.
The new look of roots does not resemble the regrowth that we once dreaded and thought of as looking sloppy and unkempt. Louis Licari: Show Your True Color
He had a full - blown mustache and beard, both of which were scraggly and unkempt.
So roughly 800 pounds of supposedly highly trained RCMP beef trembled in fear when confronted by the stapler-wielding, "unkempt" Robert Dziekanski. Maybe it was a very big stapler
During the owners'absence the lawn became dreadfully unkempt.
She walks carefully along a little stony path, which winds its way between the unkempt bushes.
Anthony Paltz, 20, a UW-Madison pre-pharmacy student who was walking down State Street at the time, described the arrested man as "unkempt" and said he was wearing a kilt. Archive 2007-05-01
Although the official media afford him considerable respect, he is the object of some derision among other Chinese, who lampoon what they call his mediocre performance as a student, his unkempt ways and his prodigious girth; in recent years, his weight has exceeded 220 pounds. PrairiePundit
Contemporary photos show a nondescript, unkempt home, not a “big, rambling, orchard-embowered house” with a dooryard neat enough to eat off. Land of Green Gables
His pale, blond hair stuck out unkemptly, almost looking silvery under the dim light.
However, Kalaimani, unshaven and unkempt, mourning the loss of his boats had to be convinced to forget the dowry amount and encouraged to go ahead with the wedding.
-- There is nothing valiant or solid to be hoped for from such as are always kempt and perfumed, and every day smell of the tailor; the exceedingly curious that are wholly in mending such an imperfection in the face, in taking away the morphew in the neck, or bleaching their hands at midnight, gumming and bridling their beards, or making the waist small, binding it with hoops, while the mind runs at waste; too much pickedness is not manly. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Sheer incompetence scheduled an afternoon meeting alongside nearby Kempton. The Sun
In May 2008, Palin objected to the decision of Dirk Kempthorne, the Republican United States Secretary of the Interior, to list polar bears as an endangered species. Mjh's blog — 2008 — August
The King George VI Chase at Kempton could be next for the horse if the ground was to come up on the fast side and rule out Best Mate.
Next to Ojka's stiffly coifed hair, Uma's unkempt curls looked lovely around her face.
wild unkempt hair
While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt, and desecrated.
Framed by a shock of sandy hair falling to his shoulders, and by an unkempt, tow-coloured beard, his eyes shone out in the firelight over his cheek-bones, with the cavernous brilliancy of an owl's.
The unkempt hair gives me a kind of youthful look. The Sun
In terms of mood, this room is rustically casual, but you'll notice that doesn't mean it's messy or unkempt.
He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails.
A countrified 63, she is the epitome of the Aga babe, all rosy cheeks and unkempt locks and warmth.
One had long unkempt hair and badly rotting teeth; the other was short, stocky and dressed in a clean tracksuit.
It was a woman, dirty, bedraggled and unkempt, but a woman nonetheless.
They were unshaved, unwashed, unkempt, and curiously unmoved.
The old beggar was dirty and unkempt.
The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
Few things bring down a home's atmosphere more than unkempt lawns and sinking paving. Times, Sunday Times
He'd seen better kempt creatures, to be sure, but then the fox could have made the same observation in reply. SACRAMENT
But some courses are right-handed - for example, Kempton, Ascot and Sandown.
The result certainly gives the Parliament an unkempt, unloved appearance lacking in maintenance.
With his perfectly kempt moustache, wavy locks, black polo-neck and tweed jacket, he would breeze through an interview.
She had lived in New York for about a year, moving up from Chicago after being offered the job when she turned 18, and settling herself away from her family in a well kempt area in the heart of the City.
The champion jockey is confident he can send punters home happy after winning the last at Kempton. The Sun
I have also had to contact the council regarding the unkempt appearance of the roads in my area.
Her dyed hair was unkempt, her bare legs were bruised and covered in sores. Seminary Boy
It was a woman, dirty, bedraggled and unkempt, but a woman nonetheless.
He had on a white shirt and black trousers which were too short and he was unkempt.
Now this was back in Jack Black's "High Fidelity" days, i.e. the non-mega-famous days, when he was portlier, unkempt, and completely unrefined. You Better Watch It.... Two Times!
Drew inquiring looks from the few ill-kempt patrons sharing the taproom. Earl of Durkness
Her nose was red, her face streaked and tear-stained, her hair disheveled and unkempt.
With water cascading down from a height of 4,500 ft. and splitting into five smaller falls, the Kempty waterfalls offers a panoramic view.
Prior to his Kempton success, the former also won a valuable Ascot handicap and his trainer feels the Lord Americo gelding is now ready to leave that company and step up in trip.
THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens. The Sun
With water cascading down from a height of 4,500 ft. and splitting into five smaller falls, the Kempty waterfalls offers a panoramic view.
With their unkempt, windblown hair, they almost resembled the man beneath her.
Although a little outdated now, goatees are still go (terrible pun intended) for some guys - in particular, those with narrow faces, longer chins and an all over slightly unkempt look.
He was a dashing bay with not a trace of white, with a well kempt mane that fell past his neck.
The man, described as scruffy and unkempt by passengers, was sitting in the rear of United Airlines Flight Lead Stories from AOL
He tweaks the unkempt bristles of yahoos, scourges grunting knuckle-draggers, mocks unibrows and is merciless with gun-totin ', whittlin', racist rednecks who hang out in the fetid swamps of Small Dead Animals and other even danker and oozier places, where pedophile-enablers and stalkers dwell. Archive 2009-06-01
Beyond the more frequented quarters of the town, they found broad, unkempt, and as yet unlevelled avenues and streets, where modest houses straggled, perched on high banks with an air of having found themselves there quite by accident. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
They had been teasing him mercilessly about his unkempt ginger barnet. The Sun
“The highly publicized, well-financed opposition to the controversial Cape Wind project off Nantucket Sound ‘is an anomaly,’ Kempton said.” Offshore Wind: The Best Energy Investment America Could Make?
I had never used the word unkempt and from his bizarre behavior, one would think I had suggested his unruly mop looked like the Uni-bomber. The Beard
She had a sudden image of herself, unkempt and twiggy, with a long beard and goatskin clothes, chasing lizards.
Wilkie is an unkempt, rangy character with a beard and piercing gaze.
He has an almost gnomish manner, an unkempt beard that he scratches at absent-mindedly and a tumble of curly black hair that bobs as he talks.
shaggily unkempt mane
The combination of bushy tail and woolly fur gives the animal a sort of unkempt, shaggy appearance.
Beside them, secured by a cord which a pikeman has fastened to his own wrist, trots a bare-legged Irish kerne, whose only clothing is his ragged yellow mantle, and the unkempt Westward Ho!
I can say with all honesty that Wolf has a very nice beard, it is stylish and very kempt.
In the 10 minutes before the doors hissed me back out into the cold I heard the word casually piped, murmured and drawled three dozen or more times, by smooth-cheeked young bairns and well-kempt old men. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
Ramone glared at him slightly, snatching it from him and starting to comb through the tangled snarls of crimson hair, green eyes still watching him from under an unkempt fringe.
She stood in the middle of the devastation, breathing heavily, hair unkempt and gown rumpled and mussed.
On the cover of Time, in a spread in Life, the image of Romania's Iron Lady was stout and unsmiling, a monolith with a face of stone, dowdy clothes and unkempt hair.
The planetologist was unkempt, his garments rumpled and not very clean. Starfarers
The victim describes the man as "unkempt" and police are asking for the public's help in identifying the attacker. Torontoist

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