How to Use untried in a Sentence

untried

adjective
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  • On both sides of the ball, the Tigers had untried players.
    — Giana Han, al, 27 Sep. 2020
  • But the database’s users around the globe have managed to make just a fraction of these for testing, leaving thousands untried.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
  • She was drawn to the way all these artists were using untried materials to make their statements.
    — Marilyn Bailey, star-telegram, 9 Feb. 2018
  • But the process is still expected to be a long, expensive slog, requiring as-yet untried feats of engineering¾and not all the details have yet been worked out.
    — Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2018
  • This was a time in pop music history when it was not really done that an untried artist was allowed to write any of their songs.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 13 July 2021
  • In the face of those defeats, al-Qahtani's lawyers decided in April 2017 to go down an untried legal route for Guantanamo detainees.
    — Daniel A. Medina, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • This kind of Lincolnian discourse has not been tried and found wanting in 2020, it has been found difficult and left untried.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Doing so will require the use the Super Heavy, a still untried rocket booster that will push Starship out of Earth’s gravity well.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2022
  • But like much of the Chicago fringe theater scene, the Rhino welcomes the unconventional, the untried, the unmarketable.
    — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Then came the senseless scheme of compelling some of the Soviet Union’s most productive farmers to abandon their land and move to the untried new collectives.
    — Adam Hochschild, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The current crisis highlights the need to talk to teens, and even tweens, about the dangers of novel drugs, both due to the risk of contamination but also the use of untried chemicals.
    — Wendy Stephen, Ph.d., miamiherald, 8 May 2018
  • The guilty verdict now strengthens the untried accusations of more than 60 other women.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Like passing a major overhaul of the tax system that includes a lot of new tax concepts or untried tax ideas to pay for it is very difficult when one single vote in the Senate can break it up.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • And everybody’s role includes showing McKnight there might be a new, untried path to victory.
    — Steve Fryer, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Lumsdon’s 2007 murder case was one of Broward’s oldest pending untried cases.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Back in the dot-com days of the late 1990s, a similar measure was favored by analysts trying to persuade investors to put money in untried companies.
    — Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
  • But those plans are more expensive and untried, not to mention equally demanding on the fluid dynamics front.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The league has said that this shift is due to placing more value on younger players as better data by way of analytics and scouting reduced risk on untried talent.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Virtually no tool of terror was left untried to silence dissent.
    — Nile Gardiner, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Placing all of our bets on a small set of untried vaccine technologies would be gobsmackingly foolish.
    — Michael S. Kinch, STAT, 31 July 2020
  • It�s an untried take on hip hop that flaunts Tobin�s technical versatility.
    — Jennifer Hillner, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2002
  • The price cap attempts to defuse that possibility with a novel but untried plan to allow Russia to continue selling oil on the global market, but at a discount.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Lacob fired a successful head coach (Mark Jackson) who was super-tight with the team superstar (Stephen Curry) to bring in an untried and unconventional head coach.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 20 May 2020
  • Or some as-yet untried, unorthodox blend of conservative and liberal ideas?
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Blocking—or even reducing—that radiation would mean adding weight to an already unproven craft on an untried human journey.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Perhaps the bombs, which may not have entered production, were built to test fuzes or the penetration capability of new, untried nose assemblies.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Lynching is the extrajudicial murder of an untried suspect, usually by a mob and often by hanging.
    — al, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This cash transfer is a previously untried (in the U.S.) solution to alleviating the effects of a recession.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 20 Mar. 2020
  • But overall, the coverage tends to be haphazard, after-the-fact, and not oriented enough to deeper issues such as the pressures and inducements for governments to invest in untried new voting machines.
    — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Mr. Craig and Mr. Malloy began the piece in 2010, when the sight of a mysterious adviser influencing an untried leader and his foreign wife probably still seemed pretty funny.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2017

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