Sentence examples for hardly pristine from inspiring English sources
The 1975 Alfetta was hardly pristine.
The nest itself, viewers soon found, was hardly pristine.
The garden soil is dark and rich-looking but hardly pristine.
Even before the recent oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico was hardly pristine.
Mr Madoff reinforced the message by occasionally ejecting a client who asked awkward questions.The trading business was hardly pristine either.
The course has always been praised as a formidable layout, but its conditions were hardly pristine and many weekend golfers avoided it.
Defending the construction, Greek Olympic organizers insisted that Marathon was hardly a pristine landscape.
A subway tunnel is hardly a pristine environment; it is full of grease and grime — and, often, rats.
But they hardly invaded a pristine ecosystem.
So Martellus Bennett, Devin McCourty, Dont'a Hightower, and the other Patriots who may join them in solidarity are hardly sullying the pristine, apolitical pastures of football.
In addition, electron diffraction and transmission electron microscopy show that the morphology and the crystal structure are hardly altered compared to pristine nanotubes.
