Sample Sentences for
untoward
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    She could hardly have made a more untoward choice.  (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 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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    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'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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    O day untowardly turned!†  (source)
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    Clara was a good wife and worked hard; she never did anything untoward or unrespectable, and yet the fact that she had that Texas money made Bob uneasy.†  (source)
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    I have learned about her journey to this country, and also the first year of her domestic service, which was not marked by any untoward episodes, with one exception.†  (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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    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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    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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    Marguerite St. Just was from principle and by conviction a republican—equality of birth was her motto—inequality of fortune was in her eyes a mere untoward accident, but the only inequality she admitted was that of talent.†  (source)
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