return
verb (used without object)
to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return to public office;
unreturning
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a word derived from
return.
Example Sentences
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Sacred is the tear that is shed for the unreturning brave.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various
Come, gone—gone for ever— Gone as an unreturning river— Gone as to death the merriest liver— Gone as the year at the dying fall— 370 To-morrow, to-day, yesterday, never— Gone once for all.
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti
It may be shattered with feeble and inexpressive demands, but all the same it is gone, and it is unreturning.
From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting
But how they crowd upon the mind—the "unreturning brave"!
From The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend by Joseph Hodges Choate
Baffled, weeping, yearning, Tossed between God and Man, rebellious spirits, We wandered, now escaped and unreturning.
From Poems by Muriel Stuart
