How To Use Unkept In A Sentence
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They were in a small, unkept dock - they walked along the waterfront, until they reached a set of stairs, leading down, to the water's height.
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I'm a sucker for a library that looks like a library - a little unkept, a little dusty, mildly disorganized and definitely overstuffed.
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These features are lost, however, in what Patterson describes as a ‘bad atmosphere’ with poor lighting and a somewhat unkept environment.
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And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to HOW it shall be kept?
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I can therefore say goodbye to this particular forum because I know that I will never run out of unkept promises or miles to walk and that I may even continue to sprinkle the journey remaining before sleep with a new idea or two.
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But they had rung her, several times at first, angry at the trail of unkept appointments.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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So what is to be done about the unkept promises of the new economy?
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She could make out a small, unkept lawn to its side, circled by a broken, wiry fence.
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But what is often felt instead is what we view as the broken confidence, the unkept promise, the lack of support.
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Because they had never traded phone numbers or mailing addresses or even last names, the unkept appointment was assumed by both of them to be the end of the affair.
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Some sound makes me look up into the eyes of a bearded, unkept man.
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Our backyard grass has a lot of wild grass as it kind of went unkept from the end of WWII until Wendy and I moved in.
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They were clearly homeless, wearing shabby clothes and unable to talk properly through their unkept teeth.
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Feeble steps were heard on the stairs, and an old man, tall and frail, odorous of pipe smoke, with shaggy, unkept gray hair and a dingy beard, tobacco stained about the mouth, entered uncertainly.
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But every guy that came up to her didn't have Luke's shaggy, unkept hair or those deep, dark brown eyes that only Luke possessed.
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‘I… I guess I'll tell you the truth,’ the boy replied, absently brushing an unkept lock of black hair from his face.
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We turned left onto a narrow, unkept road, and drove another half mile, before we arrived at a large, austere building.
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Speaking of hair, isn't it irritating to see unkept spiky mops being unsuccessfully passed off as fashionable mullets?
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Seeing only a few rodents, a fox and some other creatures running through the unkept grass, he continued across the circular field.
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It has laid bare the truths that equity without excellence is an empty achievement, quantity without quality an unkept promise.
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More than stubble lines his jaw now; he looks unkept.
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A willingness to accept untidiness: shaggy hedges, hairy field margins, trees, fallen branches, unkept bits, tangly bits, squashy bits.
Times, Sunday Times
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I. i.9 (230,3) [stays me here at home, unkept] [W: Stys] _Sties_ is better than _stays_, and more likely to be Shakespeare's.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Despite all the rhetoric and unkept promises, a light still flickers in the darkness.
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After one particularly harsh winter and many unkept promises from the U.S. Government, Cornplanter was forced to sell his tract of land along the mouth of Oil Creek in 1818.
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With our children's minds in these sort of hands, we can probably count on seeing at least a further generation with more than its quota of unkept women.
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The apartment was closed off from the main house by a maze of unkept hedge.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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They held him back, he said, he could have been, he might have done; a whole range of unkept promises she and her mother owed him.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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And at about two minutes later, I looked down the hallway and there was a man walking down the hall and the reason I noticed him was because he was rather unkept.
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A few years ago she had strange features - her hair was scraggly and unkept like a male hippie's - and she didn't notice the way her clothes never matched.
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We're surrounded by families with kids in every direction so I no longer feel shame for wearing my trackies and having unkept hair at three (ok six) in the pm.
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A small callus covered the third finger of the lady's finger, and nails oddly unkept stretched out a bit, glinting in the sun's rays.
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I looked hot, lounging between the guy with the cut-just-so shaggy hair, placed around his head to give the impression of being unkept, and the girl in the 50-dollar hippie skirt.
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But there always has to be at least one resolution unkept, so as not to upset the delicate balance of my low self-expectations.
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It was a common experience for us to be led by an unkept path and through a patch of weeds or across an ungrassed dooryard full of rubbish, in order to reach a so-called garden which had never spoken a civil word to the house nor got one from it.
The Amateur Garden
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broken (or unkept) promises
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I lived there for 5 years before being lured away by the unkept promises of London.
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His pants and shirt matched the car, dirty and unkept.
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The site had become unkept and littered with refuse and waste, in particularly the actual pond itself.