unlit
- not having lighting; unilluminatedavoid unlit streets after dark
- not having been ignitedtapping his unlit cigarette
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Examples from the Web for unlit
Contemporary Examples
The streets are unlit; the drivers are blind to anything more than a few inches beyond their headlights.
The Daily Beast arrived two hours after the shooting, navigating the unlit roads through mining country.
The man took a long, unlit cigarillo out of his mouth, and paused.
Now Baronova sits in the coffee shop and nervously fiddles with an unlit cigarette.
He pulls an unlit cigar from his teeth, his favorite black Sharpie at the ready.
Historical Examples
The hall was unlit, and only the faintest light reached it from the office.
The Night RidersRidgwell Cullum
Down in the unlit body of the church the riff-raff of O'Brien kept the doors.
RomanceJoseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
He filled his pipe, and then sat pressing the unlit tobacco with his thumb.
The Longest JourneyE. M. Forster
And, when we stood beside him, he had put a half-smoked, unlit cigar into his mouth.
No ClueJames Hay
Her life seemed a thing of quenched torches and unlit lamps.
The Tyranny of WeaknessCharles Neville Buck