Example Sentences

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"Your energy was pure selfless love. A giver in this ungiving life. Your loving nature carried thru decades."

From Fox News • Oct. 12, 2021

The iPhone’s cold, ungiving lens cuts out all emotion and presents the poisoning as an ugly fact, presented objectively and without question.

From The Verge • Sep. 22, 2017

Then there is Liam who throws the odd sop to intimacy to Scott in an otherwise ungiving dynamic.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2017

Yet Tom remains a one-note character, curt and ungiving.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2011

Most of them only see the ungiving soil from which a man must wrestle his subsistence and the barriers that shut him out from the world.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson