Ungreen

"Ungreen" in a Sentence (34 examples)

One can cure oneself of the "not un-" formation by memorizing this sentence: "A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field."

The ungreen emerald ring went round and round, and the ungreen emerald earrings swung: Thelma was working at the rim of her glass, too.

The ungreen virescent exhibits a low rate of true photosynthesis (on both a leaf fresh weight and chlorophyll basis) compared to wild-type.

Adam is also a member of the class of ungreen things, and by virtue of being ungreen can be an icon for ungreen things. But a poet who wanted to talk about ungreenness would have to take special pains to get us to notice that Adam was ungreen.

This clearly demonstrates the problem of multivalence because ungreen colors are many.

It is funny for the seaside, it looks such a “house-ified' place, it's an ungreen seaside.

The same article includes a recipe for a rather ungreen salad: Salad of mixed meat

More popular with visiting schoolchildren than tourists, the arboretum is worth a visit for anyone craving greenery in this ungreen city.

Later on Jerusalem would thread its enchantment and I would fall to its allure, but at first all I saw—despite the forest—was a dusty, ungreen, and unwatered land, the dry Judean hills stretching away toward the Dead Sea, whose dark dullness we could glimpse from viewpoints in the neighborhood.

The road had been transported or turned over into a kind of field and the grass was announcing itself in our ungreen and ungrowing world

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Tell me why seedpods are pouring through a forest that has not a single ungreen spot to fill.

New Yorker's attended hockey and boxing at Madison Square Garden, an enclosed ungreen place, while Catalans follow one of the major global brands in football at the decidedly permanent and imposing Camp Nou.

The sheriff of Norfolk had power to search for and seize any "sound, dry, and ungreen" wood which he could find, and send the same to the Fletchers or arrow makers to be made into sheaves, tipped with steel heads according to a pattern in the Tower of London.

She scorched the ungreen fields, starving men of the yields of each expected crop;

Common examples were that trees are tall while other plants are short, and that soft-stemmed plants die each year after the rains stop while trees are hardy, surviving the dry season in a dry and ungreen state.

Looking at those vines reminds me that when I feel most ungreen and unproductive, when things aren't going well, if I stay connected to Jesus, the true Vine, as today's verse says, he will bring forth not just some fruit but much fruit.

There are green products packaged in ungreen ways. Ungreen products wrapped in green ways. Green products from ungreen companies. And green companies making ungreen products.

In other words, they are very unlikely to cut down on purchases in a particularly ungreen product category in order to increase their purchasing in a particularly green one.

In this way, a shift in consumption is encouraged away from “ungreen” goods and services.

Fourth, the definition encompasses both positive green behaviours that benefit the environment and negative ungreen behaviours that actively harm the environment.

When necessary to air and ungreen, by drawing the pulley the frame rises, and the cloth drains into the vat.

After the expiration of this time, suspend a second lock of wool for ten or fifteen minutes in the Vat; when it comes out, it should be of a deeper shade, and more like a grass green than the first lock was: it will take a little over five minutes to ungreen it, when it will assume almost a Middle Blue, with a slight tinge of Green, after it has been exposed to the air for half an hour.

After each immersion the champignon is lifted out of the vat, and the fabrics are left to ungreen themselves by contact with the air. (It must be observed that, although soluble indigo is called white, because it is without color when carefully prepared in the laboratory, the goods, when first taken from the ordinary vat, are of a green color.)

Freshmen are called greens, and a ceremony was (and perhaps is) used in ungreening them, and admitting them to their full academical privileges.

The period of “ungreening” is closed by a solemn meeting where the novitiates are addressed by the president of the Corporation.

Then the short period of orientation ( “sich oisgreenen" ) to ungreen the greenhorn; to look up landsleit and relatives; to learn a few words of English; to familiarize oneself with the new surroundings and environment;

At the turn of the century Yiddish audiences were still greenhorns fighting to "ungreen" themselves .

Harvests are congratulated She is pleased with the sight, Sweet hard apples and Small ungreening leaves.

We watched the ungreening of the trees as they put on their fall wardrobes of bright colors.

For these two weeks every August, the katydid chorus overlaps the buntings' song while the efts crawl up the trail along the river and the breakdown of chlorophyll begins to ungreen the leaves.

John Robinson, in “Highways and Our Environment," complains that the highway system not only has disfigured our countryside by slapping down acres of concrete that threatens to ungreen America, but also carries an increasing number of cars that further befoul the environment by thrusting more pollutants into the air.

“Socioeconomic threshold” refers to a combination of societal and economic acceptable levels of the six factors to measure purpose accomplishment—in effect, how much “ungreening” would be tolerated by the citizenry before there was a demand for action.

The ungreening world insistently intrudes as natural fact, as cultural locus, and – so pastoral reminds us – as literary tradition.

According to Munters, the 'ungreening' of local political power positions was 20 to 30 years behind the 'ungreening' of the rural community population.

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