How to Use unsullied in a Sentence

unsullied

adjective
  • Bronn and Jaime watch from above as the army of the Unsullied approach the Lannister forces.
    Chanel Vargas, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Two, he was castrated as a boy—as all the Unsullied are.
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 24 July 2017
  • Zach Plesac is down to three unsullied digits on his right hand.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The area, within the city limits of Jacksonville, is on the unsullied, windswept edge south of affluent Amelia Island.
    Bob Rountree, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Scenes from Pirates of the Caribbean were filmed across the island because of its unsullied beauty.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Its haze seemed to smear and smudge the blue above somewhat, detracting from what might otherwise have seemed an unsullied sort of summer idyll.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • Yet the perception that the great leaders of old were unsullied by the provincialism of today does not often stand up to scrutiny.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Raymond shows that the sweet, ingenuous Nina is unsullied by the lack of manners, etiquette and good taste that typifies most of her peers.
    Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The red caps and the presidential campaign were still to come but back then, his reputation as the king of style was relatively unsullied.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The upper layers act as a buffer, leaving the surface largely unsullied.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2018
  • If Roenicke comes out of the investigation unsullied, which is the expectation, his title could be changed.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • McKnight deftly harnesses standard metaphors — the tree as home to the spirit, sanctuary of the soul; the landscape as an unsullied Eden set against a fraught humanity — and turns them to his own ends.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • In previous seasons of Game of Thrones, the audience has been sharply divided between the Sullied (book readers and spoiler addicts) and the Unsullied.
    vanityfair.com, 5 July 2017
  • Astronomers who rely on unsullied skies for their profession and members of the general public who enjoy the natural beauty of what lies above stand to lose out.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Other, more fortunate asteroids managed to remain largely unchanged from the birth of the solar system, and as time marches on, those unsullied rocks grow more and more scarce.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Trade-union leaders and CEOs strategized instead of shouting at one another, and the success of German industry offered an unsullied source of pride.
    Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 22 July 2023
  • Yes, control of cycling resources are [sic] important, as are safe spaces to ride one’s bike, but the power of whiteness within cycling remains unsullied.
    WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • However, because Grey Worm is Unsullied — meaning he was castrated as an infant — some wondered if the pair would ever act on their feelings.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 23 July 2017
  • Some prefer the components of a meal served separate and unsullied, with nothing touching; others can fully enjoy them only when the flavors mingle in a pot.
    Bee Wilson, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2016
  • The lodge’s space station-like minimalist look is designed to complement the stark landscape, and wide-open starry nighttime skies unsullied by light pollution.
    Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Its strengths are neither in furniture nor paint, but in luxuries much harder to come by: the beauty of precision, immersion in unsullied land, and the tranquility of solitude.
    ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
  • Tyrion is still avenging himself on Tywin, using his insider’s knowledge of Casterly Rock to plan the Unsullied’s assault on the castle his father helped build.
    The New Republic, New Republic, 31 July 2017
  • My son prefers meat and sauce only, left unsullied by carrots, celery, or anything remotely vegetal.
    Eric Velasco, al, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Doesn't an unsullied horizon allow for serendipity and wonder?
    Rachel Simmons, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
  • Kipchoge, who looks and talks like Yoda and runs with thrusters practically equal to the Millennium Falcon, has a glorious, unsullied history in running.
    Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2019
  • But some people are motivated less by considerations of capital flows and more by a desire to have clean hands — to feel unsullied by the fossil-fuel industry and its grievous legacy.
    New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Burgers, crusted with a salty tinge, nestle in buns stained generously with mustard, sprinkled with onions, and dosed with that chili - fine granules of meat unsullied by any visible sauce or seasoning, except for a few flakes of seasoning.
    Helen Schwab, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2017
  • Some on the left were hopeful that the unsullied voices of teenagers, cutting through the usual tussle over whether gun control advocates were politicizing a tragedy, would move previously unbudgeable lawmakers.
    New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Around that time, European factory workers routinely left their overcrowded and soot-congested cities for the Alps, where the air was fresh, dry and unsullied by inefficient machinery.
    New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Instead, expressing elation at the Six discovery and dismay at the public brouhaha around it, the low-key couple represents a kind of unsullied purity of cultural commitment.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021

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