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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unmould .
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Examples
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Maybe you saw me as an unmoulded piece of clay that could be formed to any shape, but that was OK.
Dead Woman's Shoes 2009
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Maybe you saw me as an unmoulded piece of clay that could be formed to any shape, but that was OK.
Dead Woman's Shoes 2009
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Grate the white chocolate and sprinkle over the unmoulded cake.
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Light driving darkness before it spilt itself profusely upon the corners and bosses; and yet heaped up darkness in mounds of unmoulded shape.
The Waves 2003
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They are then rewrapped (called 'dressing') in the cloth and weighed down again for another hour, then unwrapped, unmoulded, and turned over again.
Chapter 6 1989
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Or they take some of the clay left unmoulded on the potter's wheel and give it her to drink in water; the explanation of this is exactly similar, the earth having acquired the quality of swiftness by the rapid transit on the wheel.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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In a plain unmoulded strip this, of course, would not signify.
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Roman builders had emphasized their oblique arches in many cases by ponderous courses of moulded or unmoulded stone in the form of vaulting ribs.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various
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All that Helen could be brought to define was that she liked looking at things in the country: at birds, clouds, and flowers; but though striking Althea as a creature strangely untouched and unmoulded, she struck her yet more strongly as beautifully definite.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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Sister Winifred and wandered down the passage, not quite certain whether he doubted her strength to lead a chaste life in the world, or could she attribute that change of expression in his eyes to wounded vanity at finding that the living clay put into his hands was escaping from them unmoulded ... by him?
Sister Teresa 1892
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