How to use "unkempt" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "unkempt" in popular movie and book plots

  • After encounters with large, strange-looking, unkempt men, the friends are terrified.  - Lake Dead
  • After 18 years they live in an unkempt state house in an unnamed New Zealand city and have five children.  - Once Were Warriors (film)
  • Dora visits a lonely and disheveled Beba in her now unkempt home on her birthday.  - Cama Adentro
  • "Dirty" (or Dorothea) is an incontinent, unkempt alcoholic who repeatedly has sex with Troppmann.  - Blue of Noon
  • An unkempt younger man, Antoine, sees her at a cafe as she is being dumped by her latest fling, and falls in love with her.  - Venus Beauty Institute
  • In a flashback, she remembers how he arrived to her classroom, a poor, unkempt boy being raised by his alcoholic grandmother.  - Good Morning, Miss Dove
  • Leonard has her tied to a chair in a large, unkempt trailer home in the middle of nowhere.  - Scrapbook (film)
  • Impressed with his work, Kenya decides to hire him to renovate her unkempt backyard garden.  - Something New (film)
  • Wearing his ragged karate gi and looking like a cave-man with his unkempt appearance, Oyama challenges the first dojo he passes.  - Fighter in the Wind
  • "), they climb on, only to find an unkempt mouse calling himself "Speedy Gonzales: Fastest Mouse in All Mexico".  - Cat-Tails for Two
  • He appears to have not aged well as his hair is unkempt and his speech is slowed.  - Time Regained (film)
  • A huge contrast to the unkempt Catherine, Claire is an overly put together, neurotic New Yorker.  - Proof (2005 film)
  • Noi agrees, and invites the fussy Japanese man into her disastrously unkempt beachside home.  - Last Life in the Universe
  • At midnight, Gorca (Boris Karloff) returns to the cottage with a sour demeanor and unkempt appearance.  - Black Sabbath (film)
  • The latter’s corpse lying for days in her unkempt hovel before it is even noticed by her disdaining neighbours.  - L'Assommoir
  • When she returns to Wuthering Heights her appearance and manners are more ladylike, and she laughs at Heathcliff's unkempt appearance.  - Wuthering Heights

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