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

The curious, unliving light in the room changed her character.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Nothing so deters us from wanting to worship as the notion that worship is unliving.

From An Interpretation of Friends Worship by Toomer, Jean