Example Sentences

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None have been better — technically more audacious, emotionally more varied, ethically more unanswering — than this one.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2012

Our own demand for justice and for reasons comes to the same unanswering answer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those questions belong among the gigantic, terrible ones, insoluble, silent,—the unanswering primeval sphinxes of the mind.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

She had brought up her own children in abject terror and unanswering submission; and Nature, as usual, revenged herself by causing her never to cross the wills of her grandchildren on any consideration.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah

Straight to the sunrise my ship’s sails are leaning, Brave at the masthead her new colours fly; Down on the shore, her lips trembling with meaning, Love waits, but unanswering, I heed not her cry.

From Threads of Grey and Gold by Reed, Myrtle