untended garden was soon overgrown with weeds.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

At the moment, the idea of untended livestock seems more troubling to me than what a disease says my body can't do.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

But untended crops and livestock soon wither away.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Race With Death] Reference

An untended hose welled on a patch of sickly lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Could Be Anything] Reference

And if you wander on the lawn untended in the dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay and Padie Book Kiddie Songs] Reference

Small things now, but untended, they would only worsen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

A few had untended wounds, full of dried blood and dirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Sharpe looked at the bodies lying untended in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

He wondered why the boat had been left where it was, untended.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Single Spell]

But like many government subsidies, it has untended consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Plan Colombia] Reference

For several days, Ruth could only hiss like an untended teakettle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bonesetter's Daughter]

You are untended and unprepared and still divided against yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

"Next time, don't leave it untended," Jackie said, not at all repentant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Butchers Hill]

Now Haleh looks to her garden untended to more than eight months and smiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2007] Reference

Seeds that, left untended, will surely scatter to even more threatening fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practicing For Armageddon] Reference

She came to herself to say that she could not leave her mother's body untended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Remember, the kernel was designed to live untended if it ever started executing.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Names]

The garden was untended and the curtains were drawn across the downstair windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

Left untended - or abandoned - they would soon be quickly swallowed by the jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable] Reference

A village emptied of workers meant crops, animals and fishing boats left untended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice of the Gods]

It had the vaguely cathedral look of all untended paths dimmed by overarching trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kahawa]

They all had long, unevenly coloured hair that hung untended around their shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

He fears that, left untended, the disease could wipe out the state's deer population.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plague On The Plains] Reference

           But suddenly everything, anything waits untended for my taking.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Day] Reference

But nothing is worse in my mind than throwing away money when these needs go untended.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2001] Reference

I ducked back into the house, wondering hopefully if I might come across an untended pantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter of Mary]

I studied Rae: her untended auburn curls, lack of makeup, mangy coat, and moth-eaten sweater.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Something In A Sunday]

Four were brightly polished, but the middle one was battered and untended, its style archaic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

And Nora and co. were lobbying to go to some sort of untended party last night at the marina.    From Wordnik.com.  [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference

The flapping of the untended sail roused Sebell first, the rising sea breeze cooling his cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon Drums]

Evils grow as weeds grow in the garden, as thorns and thistles and briers cover the untended fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference

A fair comparison is that of scientific farming with unsystematic gleaning from wild and untended fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference

Six years ago da Silva joined hundreds of homeless peasants and stole onto one of Brazil's untended estates.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plot Of Their Own] Reference

Gossip is running wild: who drinks too much, who has a compulsive-gambling problem, whose kids are left untended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Straight To The Heart] Reference

Not a human being was in sight, but herds of cattle grazed on the pastures, and goats sported untended on the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

But, on the other hand, we find that life can exist without conscious mind, even if untended by others, for a limited time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference

Our young people cannot instantly acquire the depth of science and engineering and math skills we have untended for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Hot Dogs and Beans: Obama and the American Dream] Reference

Oriental, lived to see its churches turned into mosques, below which lie, broken and untended, the porphyry monuments of Paleologue and.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference

 Not like these parrots, plumage like firecrackers exploding, their bodies heavy as crows, overfed as they are by the untended orchards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post] Reference