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
Those rows below drawn up as if in order to march, unliving rows.
From Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
The hours were creeping on with the less certain stars; a very faint and unliving grey touched the edges of the clouds.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
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