unlive
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of unlive
Example Sentences
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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
No," said she, calmly, "that you cannot, for you cannot make me unlive the past!
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
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 Beverley, Robert
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 Marchand, J. N.
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 Rinehart, Mary Roberts
“The ghosts of those unlived lives circle close around Mr. McNamara.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
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
Their deaths from influenza had existed as an unlived abstraction.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2020
He sat down in the armchair, and for the first time she noticed how much space there was between the furniture, how sparse her flat was, how unlived in.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
One reason, it must be acknowledged, is because our meetings today are sometimes dull and unliving.
From An Interpretation of Friends Worship by Toomer, Jean
Then let him work who work may High deeds ere the death: to the doughty of war-lads When he is unliving shall it best be hereafter.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
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