How To Use Uneven In A Sentence

The pacing was uneven, and the early second act dragged.
Overall, this is a clumsy, uneven affair which, by the time the final credits roll, grates.
The road was uneven, full of random stones and broken asphalt, thrusting themselves in all directions.
Affected stands either fail to initiate spring growth or green up unevenly in March and then plants decline and eventually die due to infected crowns and roots.
The actor then flashed a toothy smile to reveal his uneven chompers.

One must be constantly alert to the hazard of maverick cyclists and uneven pavements, and you may suffer a tirade of abuse from those who now own the world, should you criticise them for unsocial behaviour.
Even with its uneven moments, it is a skilfully written book that never stops inventing.
Behind Luff has soccer association president after all the tribulus prosperous uneven standard support.
Many microwaves heat unevenly, leading to hot spots in the milk.
After each catty little spat, we cut to another uneventful rehearsal scene where boys and girls with asexual physiques pirouette weightlessly about the rehearsal room.
As we tried to make ourselves comfortable on the uneven rock floor, a hard-faced young man in his early twenties wandered over.
This unevenness of the yarn is explored through layering and fraying of raw edges.
These are almost invariably twisty, wet, uneven, covered in spilt diesel, negatively cambered and crawling with fools.
The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.
The rough uneven surface of slate can seem quite riven, chipped and degraded.
I know it is somewhat uneventful, but I should point out that should one of the pins get bent, you are going to have a heck of a time unbending it, as the pins are extremely closely spaced together and quite tiny.
The road surface had become uneven with potholes and poor camber.
I find myself flipping channels when something rather uneventful is happening. Amrie’s Take on TV: An Open Letter… | the TV addict
Arnhem looked as if it was an uneventful townsman 's town again. DISPLACED PERSON
The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.
Navratilova, whose world singles ranking is 700, admitted it had been a uneven contest.
The origin of these exotic features remains a mystery but may be due to something simple, such as the uneven upwelling of ice sheets.
However, the losses in market value are distributed unevenly, with some regions showing a surprising resilience to the market upheaval.
It would be an uneven match in terms of learning and informed understanding.
For a start, the process of change was uneven throughout the region, and many elements of the communist past persisted.
To help uncover the complexities of India's uneven rise, The Shiva Rules uses as a loose reporting metaphor Shiva, the popular Hindu deity of destruction and rebirth.
The world's distribution of animal and plant species is uneven.
Rollovers typically happen when a vehicle blows a tire, hits a bump, or runs off the road onto uneven ground and one side tips up.
Dense stone debris pitted the clay floor, which extends unevenly over the bedrock.
Some judicious editorial pruning would have made the novel less uneven and the text more taut.
From time-to-time, an unevenness in tone is evident, as the movie swerves between bawdy farce and melodrama.
From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough. Chronicles of the Canongate
There is little wrong with Roxana Silbert's zippy production that cannot be attributed to the uneven script.
It is, accordingly, inconsistent and uneven in quality of analysis and advice.
At a slightly uneven stagger the coffin set off down the aisle.
They always have an uneven number of storeys and also once had an ornate metal finial, a decoration on the top.
The surface profile of joints can be characterized by the waviness and unevenness components.
As long as efforts were confined chiefly to soaking out the active factor, or the cortin as it was called, with water, the results obtained were uneven and none too convincing. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 - Presentation Speech
It all adds up to a very uneven, sporadic film experience.
The road was uneven, often concealing deep chasms, all too ready to welcome unwary travelers into the darkness of some unseen cavern far below.
Needless to say, the results are wildly uneven, vacillating from a hushed lament to a blistering assault within seconds.
Government intervention stifles competition because their vast resources make for an uneven playfield. In health care reform debate, Obama puts focus on affordability
The sections in sesquialtera can then be conducted by simply altering the even tactus of the opening duple meter to an uneven tactus, without changing the timing of the full tactus beat itself.
The three parts are wildly uneven, but this brainteaser seems designed to intrigue and perplex in equal measure. Times, Sunday Times
The pregnancy itself was relatively uneventful.
Her face turned up to his as he staggered on the uneven surface of the car park. THE ONLY GAME
Most made-for-TV animation is pretty bad, with uneven animation, awful scripts, and poor execution.
The changes during the Nixon administration unintentionally paved the way for the uneven rise of globalisation.
The care of children with uneven limb length and limb deformities is complex because achild's growth can dramatically exaggerate limb length differences, as well asangular and rotational deformities. Leg-length discrepancies, limb deformities
Hence it is that Jane continued to live her quiet, uneventful life, uncourted by the public. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
Meanwhile, I purpose to give a sketch of TIMROD'S life, which, though comparatively brief, and to an exceptional degree uneventful, is still of interest, as throwing much light upon the character of his verses, and the development of his genius. The Poems of Henry Timrod.
At the same time, he acknowledges several potential problems - including the fact that China is a developing country with a large population and what he calls a "weak economic foundation and uneven development". China Offers Earthquake Condolences to Japan
She could tell by his uneven gait, the way he swung out both of his arms with a disproportionate vigour. BEHINDLINGS
The first divers down found the ship lying unevenly and had great difficulty in moving across the steeply sloping decks.
For the purpose of walking on uneven terrain, the main features of BR2 include geniculate legs and a translatable balance weight in the body.
The ride up was mainly uneventful, it was a three-hour trip and the hostess of the train car kept us entertained with games and trivia about the Grand Canyon.
This blade can be used to level the machine in uneven terrain and to increase digging depth or dumping height.
If the walls are uneven, you may have to replaster, put up plasterboard or special tile backer boards. Times, Sunday Times
Getting rid of malcontent Raul Mondesi should do a lot to help an uneven chemistry in the clubhouse, though Garry Sheffield remains a simmering pot.
Soon the heart monitor showed a subtle change-an uneven curve instead of a flat line.
The disruption or absence of it — which is to say where what “can happen” carries uneven deontic and/or boulomaic modalities — is equilibrium warp. Archive 2009-06-01
uneven margins
Personal financial rewards are too often distributed in ways that are uneven, unfair and unlikable. Times, Sunday Times
If the surface seemed a bit bumpy or uneven, they used a small wet sponge to carefully smooth the clay's surface.
In one storeroom, one-tonne sacks of rice were stored on an uneven surface and the property was filled with dangerous electrical wiring.
an uneven color
In many cases, slabs and setts are poorly laid with considerable discrepancies from paviour to paviour giving an uneven surface which is abnormal.
Sections of paviours forming the parking area were uneven.
The path through the wood was too uneven to risk a flat-out run. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Sold out weeks in advance, this was a double headliner, but it was an uneven match.
This provides a smooth ride that absorbs a lot of the harshness of uneven road surfaces.
Organizational practices tend to diffuse unevenly throughout the world.
Even the basics are not up to scratch as the court, laid at the last minute, slopes alarmingly and is uneven in some places and positively lumpy in others.
It's wildly uneven, but when it's good it's filthily good. Ephemera 2009 (8) - The Mostly TV Edition
Adenocaecinoma was seen in3cases and was manifested as irregular, lobulated mass of uneven density.
The sheer building mass of the shopping town, in comparison with the council buildings, was an uneven contest.
Rotors get warped due to several reasons most common being overtorquing or unevenly torquing the lug nuts with an impact wrench.
It is undeterred by uneven terrain, small rocks, sand or any smaller obstacles typically found on a ski trail.
The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.
If this land is agreed to be a very important site and should change into an exciting public place, contributing to the listed buildings and the vibrancy of that area, it can't continue as an uneven, puddled car park.
Hourglass repeats this brushwork in more, colors, including green and lavender, and with shorter, thinner strokes that in their numerousness convey a feeling of frenzy that's amplified by the uneven diagonal sides of the canvases.
After the victory of the Cuban revolution, it has experienced an uneven progress to the socialist modernization.
At the housesteps of the 4th Of the equidifferent uneven numbers, number 7 Eccles street, he inserted his hand mechanically into the back pocket of his trousers to obtain his latchkey. Ulysses
The report did say that uneven road surfaces and potholes were quite dangerous and showed an inconsistency with the town centre.
Its medial surface forms part of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity; at its upper part is a rough, uneven area, which articulates with the ethmoid, closing in the anterior ethmoidal cells; below this is an oblique ridge, the ethmoidal crest, the posterior end of which articulates with the middle nasal concha, while the anterior part is termed the agger nasi; the crest forms the upper limit of the atrium of the middle meatus. II. Osteology. 5b. 2. The Maxillæ (Upper Jaw)
The Brazilian's music is so uneven (partly because he was so prolific) that some instalments are likely to be more rewarding than others, and though it is decently performed, this is definitely one of the duds.
The blue eyes into which Betty turned to look were honest, too, and the shock of tow-colored hair and the half-embarrassed grin that displayed a set of uneven, white teeth instantly prepossessed the girl in favor of the speaker.
This slam-bang B-movie pastiche is wildly uneven as it doggedly strives (sometimes with obvious strain) to sustain a freewheeling, anything-goes air of exuberant junkiness," writes Joe Leydon. Venice film festival opens with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.
I have no reseau or good plates I have …. attempted to put lines upon the plates sent [w] ith a view to measurement, and the glass is so uneven …. Museum Blogs
this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work.
There is an uneven distribution of wealth across the country from the north to the south.
The regular pitches have cracked and produced uneven bounce.
Passengers will have little reason to complain about the suspension which copes well with uneven and bumpy roads.
Another wall was adorned with brightly colored curvilinear shapes made of cutout vinyl, placed on rectilinear pieces of transparent Mylar that were carefully distributed in an uneven pattern.
The path they traveled was an uneven dirt trail studded with footworn rocks. The Dragons at War
Sections of paviours forming the parking area were uneven.
Take care when you walk on that path - the paving stones are rather uneven.
(Soundbite of music) MILES: In the '60s and' 70s, Toussaint made a series of good but uneven albums that included a lot of what he calls boogie-ing and woogie-ing. New Albums By Booker T. And Allen Toussaint
The sandy pitch was uneven and full of fox holes which had to be covered over before the game could start, a sad reflection on a stadium starting to show wear and tear.
The history of the baronetage was uneventful till 1783, when in consequence of the wrongful assumption of baronetcies, an old and then increasing evil, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
The mineral is brittle with a conchoidal to uneven fracture.
R - R interval series is an unevenly sampled series , the unevenness which result in some problems.
We have seen the proliferation of "schizoid" global/local dialectics and non-binary explanations to map the uneven, fragmentary, and nomadic flux of capitalist culture across borders.
For a time, perhaps, she had broken away from a slow, uneventful life.
European eco-labelling has enjoyed a very uneven history; and ‘fair-trade’ products have grown in number but remain limited to a small range of products (bananas, tea, coffee, chocolate).
She says she cannot even push Colin to the local shops because of all the potholes and the uneven surface.
Damage occurs when beetles feed on the seed and destroy the germ, resulting in an uneven stand.
A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
Even the concrete floor had cracked with age and clusters of weeds had grown up through the uneven apertures.
The sheet of colored Plexiglas is unevenly spray-painted with an evanescent grey.
In this way, compensation can be made far more uneven while insulating the primary beneficiaries from the repercussions of widespread resentment. Executive Compensation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The president's lobbying on behalf of his programme was uneven and spasmodic.
The painfully familiar Cyrillic letters were crabbed and uneven - as if battered by gales.
After waiting for him to return and realising he wasn't going to, Jake peered up the dark, uneven staircase, and took a tentative step forwards.
School was uneventful as usual; he was relieved when the bus stopped at the bus stop near his house.
Magnetic particle inspection method can be applied to the surface of magnetic materials in iron or near the detection of cracks and other defects uneven.
Mild Red stayed true to its trademark of uneven necklines and hemlines, idiosyncratic tucks and darting and the mixed media of wools and wovens
The population is distributed in a very uneven pattern.
There has been considerable unevenness in the quality of the reports produced by different experts.
But I noticed that some of the rims have some manufacturer's flaws - one has a small bleb of extra glass and another has a slightly uneven rim.
An unevenly worn tread indicates an alignment or tire inflation problem.
The uneven topography alternated between blocks of ice mesas, deep ice craters, bony ice ridges, and rolling ice dunes glowing an otherworldly sapphire-blue.
the history of the play throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century is monotonously uneventful
This trend was not reversed, even in the case of an uneven distribution of polygenes (when only four or nine polygenes were spread on different chromosomes in the case of selection).
The walls shone with rainwater trailing through the grime and the ground was thick with mud between the uneven cobblestones.
It is bounded by a prominent uneven rim, which is thick and strong above, and serves for the attachment of the glenoidal labrum (cotyloid ligament), which contracts its orifice, and deepens the surface for articulation. II. Osteology. 6c. The Bones of the Lower Extremity. 1. The Hip Bone
Seems the uneven pupil thing may be an indication of a deeper problem, and I need to have it checked out by a specialist asap.
When I ask to visit, I'm told to look for the yellow Santa Fe Railway boxcar, which is set atilt on uneven ground and easily seen from the road.
The country was noted for its uneven distribution of land resources.
To him there remains plenty of time for the Spurs to get it right, to cleanse the tarnish of an uneven regular season.
This abbreviated workday was delightfully uneventful, which is worth noting because I am, apparently, just like that kid in X-Men who walks through walls. Today has been eventful ... and not
But after that adrenaline rush while still in my nightshirt, the rest of the day has been pretty uneventful.
The flowers are 1in. to 1½in. long, and about as much across when open, of a fine purple colour, with a shining satiny appearance; the six transparent petal-like divisions are of uneven form, having short bluntish points; from the openness of the corolla the stamens and style are well exposed, and they are very beautiful. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
He slumped on to the floor, his breathing ragged and uneven. CODE BREAKER
This decade has passed uneventfully.
It was as like a peeled walnut with bits unevenly broken off here and there, and then electrotyped all over, as ever I saw anything in my life. The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens
It all underscores the fact that the administration of the resource management legislation in New Zealand is incredibly uneven and inconstant around the country.
However, while growth in the last decade has been fairly spectacular in many parts of the world, the fruits of that growth have been shared very unevenly, with inequality generally growing. Stronger civil society means more power for the weak
On uneven bars, first up Ziganshina could only score 8.20, after a mistake on the low bar and a fall on her dismount.
Brown did claim the SPFA Player of the Year prize in 2009 which seemed to silence his doubters, but his form was more uneven last term reopening the argument about how much he does for Celtic. TEAMtalk Football News
Bevel wore a feathered porkpie hat and an uneven beard -- both of which made him look like a member of a lost, dark-skinned Amish tribe. Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)
No fancy features which ensure outstanding comfort or softness; what you get here is a very basic pillow which feels bumpy and uneven.
the space shuttle landed uneventfully
But really, the climate issue is just a way of trying to grapple with this fundamental uneven marketplace; the incorporation of the "cost of carbon" (because we have used the "fear" lever in the spectrum of fear and greed that the marketplace right now recognizes as the only two drivers for economic activity) is a way of monetizing fossilization in that extracted petroleum, coal, hydrocarbon feedstock. Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption"
It's been another uneventful day, filled with packing and organising.
This reversal provides the framework for an analysis of demographic change, but the trend has been uneven both spatially and socially.
It might have seemed at first as though the future railway engineer was going to settle down quietly to the useful but uneventful life of an agricultural labourer; for from tending cows he proceeded in due time (with a splendid advance of twopence) to leading the horses at the plough, spudding thistles, and hoeing turnips on his employer's farm. Biographies of Working Men
The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual.
Her face turned up to his as he staggered on the uneven surface of the car park. THE ONLY GAME
And, she adds, at a time when essential City services are under real financial pressure, the city's hiring outside lawyers to fight its citizens instead of fixing the flood-prone city's drainage system, or the uneven bluestone sidewalks that trip visiting pedestrians Andrew Reinbach: Historic Preservation Goes Bananas
His sandy blonde hair was unruly and uneven from self barbering.
In fact, the bushes are uneven in setting out and in growth, unkempt and massively overgrown.
She had just come home from another uneventful day at the village schoolhouse.
Defences were certainly on top during an uneventful opening 45 minutes in which Rovers were often guilty of trying to over-complicate things going forward.
It consists of a central rod on which are spindled four unevenly spaced balls, creating the effect of a huge baby rattle.
The floors seemed uneven and walking around in the room caused the walls to creak and groan.
the dots are unevenly disposed
The rest of the year was uneventful, except for the court-martialling of The Conqueror
Take care when you walk on that path - the paving stones are rather uneven.
The sun has now fallen behind the uneven horizon of buildings.
The procedure was uneventful, and the patient has fully recovered without tricuspid valvular dysfunction or other sequelae.
The peroxisomal enzymes of the glycolate pathway are distributed in both cell types, but unevenly.
The country was noted for its uneven distribution of land resources.
Two players contest the ball in an uneven contest dominated by the ADF.
In uneven-aged tropical rain forest ecosystems, the same principle seems to apply.
Life has otherwise been uneventful, so there's not been much to say.
The songs are appallingly uneventful, despite the rock-steady delivery of the band.
It was big, with pink frosting and sugary lettering arranged across its uneven, bumpy surface: ‘Happy Fifteenth Birthday Roberta’.
Yellowing green and flame-coloured leaves carpet the unevenly cobbled courtyard.
At the end of the week, when half of our first year students are disappointed with an uneventful frosh experience, which policy is more respecting of our future graduates?
The team was forced to count two falls from Pavlova, who missed a Jaeger on uneven bars, and fell on a flip-flop, layout on balance beam.
Because gribbles usually attack wood ‘en mass’, the wood surface quickly becomes sharp and uneven because of all the holes and cavities.
We found fried eggs cooked too quickly and pancakes browned unevenly in the Specifics because the centre of the pan was hotter than the edges.
Her passage across the Pacific was uneventful.
Carrie is a stay-at-home mother with a husband whose career pays irregularly, meaning they tackle a very uneven rate of pay along with many opportunities for saving money.
They are full of cracked or misaligned paving slabs or kerbstones, running fissures and uneven surfaces everywhere.
A sheet of hand-made paper has all round it a rough uneven edge called the "deckle," that is a necessary result of its method of manufacture. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
The uneven pattern is not consistent with a simple haplotype block structure.
Overall, the book does a fine job of summarizing the available information on trogons and quetzals but the work is somewhat uneven.
Its pages were heavy vellum and in the centre of the opened one were six lines of uneven length. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
And when this anthem of jealous antiphonies and uneven rhythms had dwindled quite away and fainted in one last solitary note of silver, there started somewhere another sequence; and this, almost at its last stroke, was interrupted by yet another, which went on to tell the hour of noon in its own way, quite slowly and significantly, as though none knew it. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
The three parts are wildly uneven, but this brainteaser seems designed to intrigue and perplex in equal measure. Times, Sunday Times
My journey back to my home was uneventful in the ordinary sense. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Thrips may also cause blemished seeds on achenes, and uneven maturity of fruit.
There will be fewer manufacturing jobs on the other side of the crisis, and the U.S. economic landscape will be more uneven — “spikier” — as a result. How the Crash Will Reshape America
The evidence for the relations between a bishop and his diocese is unevenly distributed.
If you never rotate your tyres, they will wear unevenly, which will shorten the life of your tyres.
For cluster sampling, rarity is just a form of uneven distribution.
Somehow during the polishing the mirror was supported in such a way that the pressure on its backplate was slightly uneven, and the mirror was polished so it was a highly accurate shape of a potato chip. A Grand and Bold Thing
`Other Comecon countries have tried similar tactics and the results have been uneven. TOY SHOP
Thrilling to the chase, I pounded down the uneven corridor until the beam of my light fell upon a wooden door at the end of the passage.
She went faster and faster, swinging round corners, bumping over uneven patches in the lane.
Failure to do so will cause an uneven blotchy appearance on your teak furniture after you apply the sealant.
She could tell by his uneven gait, the way he swung out both of his arms with a disproportionate vigour. BEHINDLINGS
Paint the wall a bright green, then rip masking tape to create an uneven, ragged edge.
The details are lost amid the uneven songs of the pigeons, the beat of wings and scrape of claw on slate.
But after that adrenaline rush while still in my nightshirt, the rest of the day has been pretty uneventful.
Take care when you walk on that path - the paving stones are rather uneven.
The collections of college and university art museums are sometimes motley assortments of works of art donated by alumni to their alma mater - uneven collections with glaring gaps.

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