How to Use unrestored in a Sentence
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The 56-year-old plane needs some work, unrestored and unaltered since Elvis last owned it.
—Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
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The church, completed in 1755, is the oldest unrestored stone church in the nation.
—Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 6 Apr. 2020
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The projections show how the unrestored, nonworking signs looked and flickered back in the day.
—Spud Hilton, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
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It’s connected via a private path to an unrestored section of the Great Wall.
—Jake Emen, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024
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Here, unrestored sections of wall switch back and forth along steep mountain passes.
—Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
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Except for the paint, this 1966 Ford remains unrestored and original.
—Maegan Gindi For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
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According to the duo’s 2021 paper in Water, a few of the new species proliferated, but most of the other species were similar to those in unrestored sections of the creek.
—Erica Gies, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2022
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Of the eight, five were put back on display unrestored, and two were brought back to their original condition by the General Motors heritage program.
—Brian Silvestro, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
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The complex is totally unrestored, with some portions reduced to huge piles of laterite bricks.
—Lester V. Ledesma, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2018
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Categories include hot rods, classics, tuners, trucks, customs, choppers and rat rods along with unrestored originals and works in progress.
—Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
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Even in the current unrestored state, the colors—black, white, gray, ocher, Pompeii red, deep maroon—are astonishingly intense.
—Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
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The church at Mission Concepción, known as the nation’s oldest unrestored church, has been closed since January, to allow for placement of a metal rim around the base of its dome for stabilization.
—Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 18 Mar. 2020
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Click here for more photos of this unrestored 1949 Talbot-Lago convertible.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 June 2023
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Among the collection of small towns and hamlets in the region is Litchfield, considered the finest unrestored Colonial town in America and celebrating its 300th birthday this year.
—Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
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The Palazzo Corpi’s high-ceilinged rooms, with their frescoed walls and ceilings and parquet and marble floors, have kept their unrestored, ochred patina, and the effect is astonishingly potent and evocative.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2019
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Categories include hot rods, classics, tuners, trucks, customs, choppers, rat rods, unrestored original and works in progress.
—Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
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Gooding & Company has just announced the private sale of the only remaining unrestored 250 Testa Rossa.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
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The gentle equilibrium of the design balances light-toned furniture—natural oak, unstained pine, and well-worn painted pieces—with the darkness of the wood; the unrestored state of the antiques plays against their aristocratic provenance.
—Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 27 Feb. 2007
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The light-weight rigid foam remains solid, and the original unrestored paintwork is in excellent condition, with only subtle flaking in small areas.
—Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2022
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Mission Concepción, which dates to 1755, is the oldest unrestored stone church in America, and visitors can see original frescoes in several rooms.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2022
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Most are presented in unrestored, original condition and Palmen himself cars started them on a regular basis to keep the engines from being seized.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2023
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Furthermore, only two unrestored copies have ever been graded higher than 8.5.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024
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For example, if a person is not breathing well during sleep (snoring or sleep apnea), this will disturb the normal sequences and cause the individual to awaken feeling unrestored.
—Steven Bender, Quartz, 7 June 2019
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Almost all of the original fossil bones remain on the pteranodon's remains and are essentially unrestored, meaning that artificial filler was not used to replace missing bone sections.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 July 2023
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Because unrestored eutrophic lakes produce significant methane emissions, restoring lakes and recycling the sediments for agriculture could mean a net decrease in greenhouse gases reaching the atmosphere on an ecosystem scale, Kiani says.
—Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 2 May 2023
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