Sample Sentences for
untoward
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    She could hardly have made a more untoward choice.  (source)
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    And you have to realize that sometimes we think we have an animal correctly made—from the standpoint of the DNA, which is our basic work—and the animal grows for six months and then something untoward happens.†  (source)
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    When it is his life or health that is in danger, I do not think it untoward that the military police take some interest in preserving and protecting the boy.†  (source)
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    He'd seen her curse out this muscle-bound turkey who whispered something untoward as she passed on the street, she got up in the dude's face, but a rat made her squeal like a little girl.†  (source)
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    I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.†  (source)
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    He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.†  (source)
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    O day untowardly turned!†  (source)
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    They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself.†  (source)
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    I should have been glad to have met Daniel Dodge himself; to have had him seen me and known me, that he might have mourned over the untoward circumstances which compelled him to sell me for three hundred dollars.†  (source)
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    Her efforts in this line, however, were brought to an abrupt close by an untoward accident, which quenched her ardor.†  (source)
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    If anything...untoward happens, can we handle their surface force with what we have at hand?†  (source)
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    'And there is nothing untoward involved, of course.†  (source)
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    I think it's a good thing for all concerned that nothing untoward occurred.†  (source)
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