Example sentences for: unkempt

How can you use “unkempt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At S’Algar and Cala d’Alcaufar, villas cluster near a rocky shore, and Punta Prima has a sandy but often unkempt beach.

  • Harvard Square itself is unkempt.

  • The house is surrounded by a lovely, somewhat unkempt garden of exotic flowers, trees, and plants (including a good orchid section).

  • Kaufman's protagonist, Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), is a soulfully unkempt puppeteer whose wildly ambitious work is ignored while his gimmicky rivals thrive.

  • How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?


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