How To Use Untended In A Sentence
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‘Rock gardens should look untended and exude a careless beauty’, he says.
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Elderberry bushes can be found in untended, overgrown areas everywhere around here sadly not on the carefully "landscaped"-within-an-inch-of-its-life grounds of the building where I live, of course.
Toast:
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While some front gardens are overgrown, untended and filled with litter, others are carefully looked after with window boxes, flowers in bloom and neatly trimmed hedges.
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We suggest that "untended" behavior also leads to the breakdown of community controls.
Broken Windows
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The condition of the common people (and belike, in great part, of the middle class also) was yet more pitiable to behold, for that these, for the most part retained by hope [11] or poverty in their houses and abiding in their own quarters, sickened by the thousand daily and being altogether untended and unsuccoured, died well nigh all without recourse.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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As a result of the plague, much land was left untended and there was a terrible shortage of labour.
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There is also a health and safety issue on these sites, many of which are now untended and which inevitably will draw youngsters as a consequence and carry their own risks.
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Now, they lie like dead giants, with grass growing untended on their grounds and paint peeling from their great walls.
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The activity was highly unusual as the barricaded street leading to her house has been left untended since her house arrest began.
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untended garden was soon overgrown with weeds
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It is the season of scents, and the native, untended, unpampered plants are easily and gracefully first in an uncatalogued competition.
My Tropic Isle
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Thousands of acres of rubber trees were left untapped and untended, as the ruling price then could not meet even the labour cost.
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But she says the golf course will be ruined after being untended for at least a year, and the Halls Bowling Club captain, 69, says members will have gone elsewhere by then.
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The council now needs to restore the allotments earmarked for the extension, which had been left untended in anticipation of planning consent.
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The Blunt family home was a large, ramshackle house with an untended and brambly garden.
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That epic conflict shattered the international system beyond recognition, leaving across the globe a broad swath of destruction and human misery, as many as sixty million people dead, cities in ruin, factories demolished or idle, roads and bridges destroyed, and fields untended.
Between War and Peace
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The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Some predation of click beetles by certain carabids will occur in pheromone traps left untended for 2-3 week periods late in the adult generations of A. obscunis and A. lineatus.
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Patches of earth are being left to ferment, overlooked and untended.
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I drove past an untended guardhouse whose windows still bore masking-tape Ks, into a completely empty parking lot fringed with yellow gazania.
Devil's Waltz
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TV on DVD Next week's releases of past television series The state of affairs not likely to be undone soon is the one on display in the quarters that are home to the town's poor—slums of terrifying squalor where diseases flourish, exhausted women die untended after yet another pregnancy, and girls don't get to go to school because there are young sisters and brothers to look after.
A Formula So Old It's New Again
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Additionally, results suggested that treehoppers benefit from ant attendance in ways other than protection from predators; tended treehoppers outperform untended treehoppers even with predators excluded.
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A short distance from San Lazzaro they approached a smaller untended island.
MURKY SHALLOWS
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In fact, none of the graves has any marker at all, and the graveyard itself is unmarked and untended.
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The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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The family home was a large, ramshackle house with an untended and brambly garden.
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It looks, because it is, untended; it looks, although it is not, uncared for.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hi, Vee," said a dark-haired woman of 35 who was leaning against a cyclone fence that enclosed an untended garden.
Appearances
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Among the general detritus and debris, half-finished homework, mugs of undrunk tea, schoolbooks, and bits of model aircraft and bizarre gadgets lay in untended heaps.
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We can see hints of miasma too, again in the backstory, in the death of Semele and her pointedly untended grave.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
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People speak readily of the untended wounds of the dead, but practice silence on the topic of the peaceful, pluralistically driven, and loving Muslims who are seeking to build this center of community.
Grant Brooke, M.Div.: Hindsight: Burying the Ghost of Ground Zero
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Her sober, kindly capableness evolved from the slovenly little house and the untended children, from the dusty rooms and neglected kitchen the kind of order and neatness which had been plain to see in Robin's more fortune-favoured apartment.
Robin
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Just around the corner of my street, the mechanical laughter of California quail and the quarrel of crows up in the majestic heights of a Colorado spruce that was left to grow, untended for years now.
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And quite frankly, I enjoy ignoring my own untended messes in order to help others clean theirs, leaving my own life in occasional (okay, steady) disarray.
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The Blunt family home was a large, ramshackle house with an untended and brambly garden.
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An untended lawn looks out of control in a week, with sprouts a foot tall, and trees can reach 60 feet within a decade.
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These untended traps and the ‘ghost fishing’ they produce cost commercial crabbers considerable potential income.
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At the moment, the idea of untended livestock seems more troubling to me than what a disease says my body can't do.
News
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shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs
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Stand still long enough and you'll likely become part of the landscape yourself, quickly covered with the rampant ivy creeper that drapes itself like an emerald dustsheet over every untended acre.
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That means that dangerous stretches of track are being allowed to go untended.
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I have the impression that those on the garage have been left completely untended since they were applied some forty-seven years ago.
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Who would be willing to admit that monitoring screens often flickered forlornly to the soft echoes of slumber or sat in closets unwatched and untended or, even worse, were silent since they weren't even working at all?
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The aging, untended planks, however, crumbled under their surging weight and broke away with a palpable snap, precipitating the struggling pair like so many sacks of sand to the lower level.
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If you are lucky enough to find her house, and then a parking space on the narrow road, you will be greeted by a thicket of untended bushes and misshapen trees that obscure the entrance to the path that winds around the house to her studio.
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The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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untended children
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A goatherd has been arrested, so his goats roam untended; a man has been brought in, bruised and handcuffed, for asking an American patrol for help for his wounded daughter.
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Reluctant to leave all that is familiar behind them, nervous about leaving their home untended, but joyful at the thought of a reunion they long for, you decide to make the journey.
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Brambles, gorse and broom rapidly overtake untended ground and soon create an impenetrable terrain - ideal habitat for furtive species such as the wild boar and Iberian wolf which survive here.
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At one three-way junction on the outskirts, there is the familiar and pure chaos that results when such junctions are left untended and unsignalled.
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Cedar trees were rampant on the untended grounds, attesting to the name of the Suttons' residence, and as he strode by one, he reached for a handful of green needles.
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Left untended, many plants have collapsed among weeds.
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Yes, I know a large chunk of the child population today is virtually feral, untended and untutored by responsible parents.
