How to Use unmolested in a Sentence

unmolested

adjective
  • The police had a quick chat with him and sent him on his way unmolested.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 3 June 2020
  • Barr allowed the Mueller probe to reach its conclusion unmolested.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Within days, two bluebirds built a new nest, but left it with one naked chick inside an otherwise pristine nest, unmolested.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
  • In friezes, only one figure might show damage while others remain unmolested.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • The global order that the Navy maintains ensures that maritime trade flows unmolested.
    — Benedict D. Capaldi, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Beyond its vernal beauty, such a carpet is a product of decades of unmolested increase, aided by the insects that spread the seeds.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The young activist got a perm, shaved his beard, and walked around unmolested while finishing his exams with the help of a sympathetic professor.
    — Abe Streep, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2015
  • Most tumors shield themselves from the body and grow unmolested, but various emerging tactics are teaching the immune system to fight back.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
  • But small groups of migrants, identifiable by both their weary gait and their backpacks, continue passing through the town unmolested by locals.
    — Dudley Althaus, ExpressNews.com, 23 June 2019
  • The right of residence — to remain unmolested in the territory of the nation — was urgent in Wears’ view.
    — Martha S. Jones, Time, 9 July 2018
  • The question is whether he will be allowed to complete his investigation unmolested by the president who derides his efforts as a witch hunt.
    — Paul Thornton, latimes.com, 26 May 2018
  • The tomb itself was designed to remain unmolested for all time and is, it is believed, effectively hermetically sealed.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • With numerous food plots available, the key factor became the relatively unmolested cover along the water courses.
    — Jim Moore, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
  • When a youngster of about four years held out its hand, Huxley, after a moment, very gently cuffed it on the head, but a female with a tiny infant was allowed to feed from the carcass unmolested.
    — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Florida Atlantic took him out of his route quickly, but that left Ruckert unmolested in the second level, and Fields made the read for his fourth touchdown pass.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Ferns -- plants that have survived various challenges for more than 300 million years -- typically remain unmolested by deer.
    — cleveland, 4 June 2020
  • What’s most striking within the buffer zone is the stillness of the place and the range of wildlife that can be encountered, such as a rare species of barn owl that has been allowed to multiply unmolested by human habitation.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
  • But the Taliban's inner shura, their most important decision-making body, has been left unmolested in Baluchistan.
    — Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2011
  • The contemporary Persian historian Juvayni fancied that a virgin with a gold dish could walk unmolested from one end of the empire to the other.
    — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
  • The following year, Constantine co-issued the Edict of Milan, granting Christians the right to practice their faith unmolested.
    — Tom Bissell, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • But on December 31st hundreds of militiamen were allowed to enter unmolested.
    — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
  • After the station closed in 1966, the reindeer grazed unmolested, devastating the island’s native plants, including the tussock grasses in which seabirds nest.
    — Lucy Jakub, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Factories straddled the border with Jordan and Palestinian workers moved almost entirely unmolested to and from jobs in Israeli plants.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But the Madison house apparently was unmolested, and the Declaration survived with only some moisture damage sustained while hidden.
    — Author: Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Jackson Yueill then sealed the win in the 85th minute, standing unmolested in the middle of a quartet of Galaxy defenders and volleying home the rebound of a Qazaishvili shot.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
  • Should Catalonia win its freedom, Europe’s leaders will put pragmatism before principle and ensure its place in the EU remains unmolested.
    — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Straight, unmolested country two-lanes, shadowed by buttes and mesas and purple table-top hummocks that lead an ever-upward march to Guadalupe Peak at 8751 feet—the highest point in Texas.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is located among the Berkshire Mountains and has remained seemingly unmolested by time.
    — Augusten Burroughs, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Among British companies, ties to unsavory jurisdictions are many, lucrative, and generally unmolested by law enforcement.
    — Suzi Ring, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But weeks before those forces' entry, a string of pickup trucks mounted with machine guns and loaded with masked al-Qaida militants drove out of al-Said unmolested, according to a tribal mediator involved in the deal for their withdrawal.
    — Maggie Michael, Fox News, 7 Aug. 2018

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