unlive
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of unlive
Example Sentences
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No," said she, calmly, "that you cannot, for you cannot make me unlive the past!
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
It means that I divorce myself from everything of Now; that I unlive my past life; that I leave my companionship with dumb things––horses and cattle and birds––and I love them, for they are natural.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by J. N. Marchand
They came to her so often now, these intelligent, untrained women, all eagerness to help, to forget and unlive, if they could, their wasted lives.
From Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Thus they unlive their former lives, and commence men by forgetting that they ever have been boys.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
The latter part of his life is so led as if he desired to unlive his youth, and his last testament is full of restitutions and legacies of piety.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
She often said, of her own generation of women: “Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
I can’t really imagine, had I not gotten the chance to practice and do this work, how unlived my life would feel.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2023
The exhibition opens with words from the late African American poet Maya Angelou: “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived; but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again,” writer Maya Angelou said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2020
The place feels borrowed to me, unlived in.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
So where do you draw the line between unliving protein and living organism?
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023
Words hold enormous power; in the case of Yente, she becomes suspended between unliving and undead.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
No wizardry would serve him now, but only his own flesh, his life itself, against the unliving.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Those rows below drawn up as if in order to march, unliving rows.
From Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
I remember the big, fat, rather gloomy fields of this part of Baden, damp and unliving.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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