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119 examples of Undone in a sentence

This is an important step forward, but much remains to be done to prevent much from coming undone as the global economy confronts the looming wall of debt.
They will not be intentionally undone and are certain to continue to improve and maintain the health of old people for years to come.
Moreover, the model was undone by the use of pensions in the 1960’s and 1970’s as a mechanism for controlling the labor market.
Likewise, economic globalization cannot be undone.
What is done cannot be undone.
Although these actions cannot be undone, further bloodshed and targeted evictions can and should cease.
Globalization cannot be undone, and migration from the EU cannot be cut off.
If a convict turns out to be innocent, his execution cannot be undone.
That is millions of people who could be performing any number of useful paid tasks that are currently being left undone.
Under Malpass, however, this progress could be undone, with the World Bank once again guided by the mantra of economic growth above all else.
And in this case, the government was undone by its own lies.
But exposure of someone’s biometric information is far more dangerous than exposure of, say, a password or credit card number, because it cannot be undone.
Tourism, the lifeline of Kashmir, has been devastated; decades of effort by Indian governments to reverse foreign governments’ warnings against travel to Kashmir by portraying the region as safe have been undone.
That progress should not be undone now by spurious appeals to non-intervention.
But what is clear across the region is that as the fabric of global integration comes undone, Latin American governments face spiking popular dissatisfaction and a sharp downturn in public confidence in governments and institutions.
Anyhow it's done and can't be undone; it may as well be him as another now.
Perhaps they hadn't seen us go overboard; and even if they had, the frigate-- being undone by its rudder--couldn't return to leeward after us.
Suddenly on the pavement was heard a loud noise of clogs and the clattering of a stick; and a voice rose—a raucous voice—that sang—"Maids in the warmth of a summer day Dream of love and of love always"Emma raised herself like a galvanised corpse, her hair undone, her eyes fixed, staring.
He smiled when he herd all this, and I asked him how he could make so light of it, when he must needs know that if there was any discovery I was undone for ever, and that even it would hurt him, though not ruin him as it would me.
'If you are in earnest you are undone.'
She is always married too soon who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late who gets a good one; in a word, there is no woman, deformity or lost reputation excepted, but if she manages well, may be married safely one time or other; but if she precipitates herself, it is ten thousand to one but she is undone.
This was my man; but I was to try him to the bottom, and indeed in that consisted my safety; for if he baulked, I knew I was undone, as surely as he was undone if he took me; and if I did not make some scruple about his fortune, it was the way to lead him to raise some about mine; and first, therefore, I pretended on all occasions to doubt his sincerity, and told him, perhaps he only courted me for my fortune.
On the other hand, if she had questioned or doubted me, I had been undone, for the bare suggestion would have immediately separated me from my husband, without gaining my mother or him, who would have been neither a husband nor a brother; so that between the surprise on one hand, and the uncertainty on the other, I had been sure to be undone.
Dreadful girl,' says she, 'why, we are all undone!
I thought of the bank, and of the other companies in London, but I had no friend to commit the management of it to, and keep and carry about with me bank bills, tallies, orders, and such things, I looked upon at as unsafe; that if they were lost, my money was lost, and then I was undone; and, on the other hand, I might be robbed and perhaps murdered in a strange place for them.
But this aggravated him more than before, that she should put so far upon him, and run things such a length upon no other authority than a hearsay; and then, turning to me again, said very honestly, he was afraid we were both undone.
I thought many ways that I had the worst of it, but his saying he was undone, and that he had no estate neither, put me into a mere distraction.
'Why,' says I to him, 'this has been a hellish juggle, for we are married here upon the foot of a double fraud; you are undone by the disappointment, it seems; and if I had had a fortune I had been cheated too, for you say you have nothing.'
'Tis something of relief even to be undone by a man of honour, rather than by a scoundrel; but here the greatest disappointment was on his side, for he had really spent a great deal of money, deluded by this madam the procuress; and it was very remarkable on what poor terms he proceeded.
We are both undone, and what better are we for our being reconciled together, seeing we have nothing to live on?'
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