How to Use untouched in a Sentence

untouched

adjective
  • The piano was untouched for years.
  • He left his food untouched.
  • The artist's biographer left a few important events of his life untouched.
  • The original agreement remains untouched.
  • To choose my beats, Sara sent me a link to a Web page that looked untouched since 1995.
    Matthew Schnipper, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The project is leaving much of the wildlife area untouched and preserving half of the 62 saguaros.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
  • Bat colonies then must remain untouched until the pups are weaned and able to fly in the fall.
    Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
  • The pride flag that was burned had been placed on the wire fence along with a Black Lives Matter flag, which was untouched.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • There’s just so much music in the world that’s just untouched from every decade.
    Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Braheam Murphy was nearly untouched on a 75-yard run to the end zone.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Less than 24 hours earlier, the area had been untouched.
    Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But few aspects of the education process are untouched by the war.
    Megan Specia Laura Boushnak, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Nowhere is that more apparent than at stores, where cases of the beer sit untouched.
    Julie Creswell, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • Bottles of nail polish, perfume and hair gel stood untouched on a shelf.
    Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The suspension has largely been left untouched, despite the S1 weighing 550 pounds less than the car it’s based on.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
  • That being said, the plaintiffs argue that the tranche of shares in question remain untouched.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Other parts of the three-minute-long segment remained untouched.
    Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Evil Dead has been left untouched since 2018 when the Ash vs Evil Dead series concluded.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Her two youngest are in charter schools; so far, the libraries there seem to have remained largely untouched.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But 70 percent of the stuff returned will remain untouched by anyone, at least for now.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • When keepers checked to make sure both had eaten, Murphy’s fish had been torn apart, but the eaglet’s pile of fish was untouched.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But for the last few years, with little occasion to use it, my gear has sat in a cabinet untouched.
    Carly Helfand, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Bobbi Pattison also owns a home across the road on higher ground, untouched by the storm.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Images of the aftermath show the house seemingly untouched amongst the wreckage.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Items from the students, including Valentine’s Day gifts, lay untouched on each of its three floors.
    Hannah Phillips, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Since Hubbard's responsibility on the play was to rush and contain on the edge, he was untouched through the line.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
  • In a quiet but revealing scene, the foursome roll into a town that seems untouched by war.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Except Utes linebacker Lander Barton read the play and made a great break on the ball, plucking it out of the air at the 23-yard line and going untouched into the end zone.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • After searching for about a year, the couple found the perfect, untouched lot in February 2020.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The yellow kitchen inside remains almost untouched, with fruit still on the table.
    Kim Bubello, Time, 17 Jan. 2023

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