Sentence examples for was left unrepaired from inspiring English sources
Rent may not have been paid, for example, because the furnace was left unrepaired for months.
In 1911, the city opened a flushing tunnel that moved in cleaner water from the Buttermilk Channel, but the tunnel broke down in the 1960's and was left unrepaired for more than three decades.
To convince the Americans that Nagato had been badly damaged by the attack, her damage was left unrepaired and some of her ballast tanks were pumped full of seawater to make her sit deeper in the water as if she had sunk to the harbor bottom.
When such a humiliating rupture between image and substance is left unrepaired, it can become eviscerating.
Gaping potholes and collapsed entry ramps have been left unrepaired for months.
Why should the gaping scars of other people's tragedies be left unrepaired, so some pundit can exult in "the pleasure of ruins"?
One bullet hole in a doorway leading to the main prayer hall has been left unrepaired as a memorial to the shooting victims.
Keith Coventry's sculpture explores the wasted parts of town, where trees get vandalised and prostitutes step over crack pipes, where doner kebabs rotate and drip fat, and broken windows are left unrepaired.
They wrote that if "a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken". The idea is that if a community tolerates a proliferation of small offenses — fare-dodging, vandalism, public urination — criminals will feel emboldened to commit more serious crimes like robbery and even murder.
As in Balzac's "Human Comedy," characters who loom large in one novel reappear as minor figures in another, sometimes at the next table in Heininger's, where one mirror, cracked by a bullet, is left unrepaired as a memorial to the day thugs shot up the dining room and left the Bulgarian headwaiter dead in the ladies room.
In yeast cells, cadmium increased mutations as much as 2000-fold, and up to 50% of spontaneous mismatches were left unrepaired.
