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
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
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
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
What the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips calls “the unlived life” is the one that invariably seems to preoccupy them most.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
They are the trip abroad you never took, the business you didn’t start — shadows of a more vibrant life unlived.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2022
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
Those rows below drawn up as if in order to march, unliving rows.
From Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
There was the cold, unliving part of her.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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