(a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
Example Sentences:
(1) He knew that the find presented the country with perhaps its last chance to develop in the traditional way, but he also knew it would push the oil frontier deeper into the Amazon, release 400m tonnes of climate-changing gases and make the destruction of a vast and pristine area inevitable.
(2) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
(3) Djami Marika stood at the edge of a pristine Arnhem Land beach and shook his head at the boat moored across the channel.
(4) The one-cell mouse embryo bioassay was utilized to test the embryotoxicity of three brands of powerless surgical gloves; Pristine, Ansell, and BioGel.
(5) Environment groups are opposed to the drilling and claim it puts a pristine area of biodiversity at risk.
(6) The pitch on which Iceland train, favoured in the past by Monaco and Nantes for summer getaways, sits beneath Mont Veyrier and is cocooned a few hundred metres from pristine lakeside beaches and disrobed holidaymakers.
(7) Colbeck told the Australian the protected listing was a “sham” because it locked up areas of plantation timber, as well as pristine old-growth forest.
(8) Harboured by the remote and pristine forests in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on the border of the Central African Republic , the chimps were completely unknown until recently – apart from the local legends of giant apes that ate lions and howled at the moon.
(9) Mineralization half-lives for naphthalene in microcosms ranged from 2.4 weeks in sediment chronically exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons to 4.4 weeks in sediment from a pristine environment.
(10) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(11) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
(12) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(13) I opened my eyes to see the pristine beach glistening in the clean dawn air.
(14) A nimal, vegetable and mineral, a pristine tropical coral reef is one of the natural wonders of the world.
(15) Maslin told the FA’s website: “We strive to deliver the best possible surface, so I’m slightly disappointed that the surface isn’t as good as it should be but I’m confident it will be back to its pristine state after a winter renovation.
(16) Today the archipelago’s sparsely populated islands remain pristinely beautiful while some of its underwater landscapes present scenes of utter devastation.
(17) The outsider might have thought that the US had preserved all its wildernesses in national parks long ago, but it was during the 1950s that concern about damming of the Colorado river highlighted the threat to many pristine and unprotected areas.
(18) The once pristine Boulevard Mobutu has lost its lustre.
(19) The residents of Sani Isla expressed relief that a confrontation with Petroamazonas did not take place on Tuesday as anticipated , but said the firm is still trying to secure exploration rights in their area of pristine rainforest.
(20) This time, it’s casual Chuka: skinny jeans with micro turn-ups, blue suede shoes, pristine white shirt, jacket.
Untouched
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
(2) Those along the Atlantic coast fear their relatively untouched vistas will be next.
(3) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
(4) Richard Knights Liverpool • As an ex-headteacher who deserted the profession when it became evident that Ofsted was the untouchable body by which the government ensured its will would prevail in schools, I hope that your paper pursues its investigation into the manner in which Ofsted operates .
(5) Phrases like "untouched by time", "time has stood still" leap from the tourist literature.
(6) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
(7) Back at the heart of the government, untouched by the discord of everyday life, the awkwardness of Greece's relationship with its big brother was on display in the body language of its prime minister.
(8) It was largely untouched by the 2003 invasion and the wave of looting that convulsed Iraq immediately afterwards, and the first American troops to enter Falluja found a local defence force in place and a mayor willing to work with them.
(9) In a letter to the Guardian, Nick Hayes , the father of Tom, called the sentence “brutal” and that “the real architects of financial manipulation and skulduggery in Wall Street and the City remain untouched”.
(10) Drogba, his game hoisted for the big occasion, is untouchable.
(11) The distinctive features of the method are the extended use of the tracer disease concepts, the evaluation of referrals, new procedures for probing the clinical operation of practices, a single blind design, emphasis on the use of the untouched medical record, the ability to compare results with measurements of concurrent outcome, and a relatively low cost.
(12) And, from The Untouchables to Far From Heaven to Six Feet Under, there's not an embarrassment among them: she clearly chooses judiciously.
(13) Ivano-Frankivsk, the region where the incident took place, lies in the heart of Ukraine’s nationalistic west and is untouched by the 16-month separatist war.
(14) Indeed, for years the special rate for far-flung Greek islands was considered untouchable.
(15) Removal of the left lobe while leaving the right lobe untouched was not associated with reduced K-values, but duct obliteration of the whole pancreas was.
(16) In 2 of these patients who had previous gastrectomy, the graft was inserted above the gastro-jejunal anastomosis; in the patient who had cephalic pancreatoduodenectomy leaving the pylorus untouched, the graft was inserted between the first and the third duodenal segments.
(17) The changes were similar in sialoadenectomized mice with untouched kidneys as in sialoadenectomized and nephrectomized, indicating that aggression causes no measurable, if any, renal renin release.
(18) Many of the protestors carried signs supporting the judge, José Castro, who had decided to summon the infanta, praising him for taking on a corruption investigation widely seen as untouchable.
(19) The index includes both seasonally adjusted figures and untouched figures at the national level.
(20) In a sign that the killing spree has left no sector of Norwegian society untouched, the royal court has announced that the 51-year-old was the stepbrother of Mette-Marit, Norway's crown princess.