Example Sentences
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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
Every time you speak the name, the emptiness of my life stands before me like a royal Kakemono all covered with unliving people.
From More Portmanteau Plays by Stuart Walker
We revolted from that, but we must take care lest we teach in another way a catalogue of things equally unliving to us.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
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