unsee
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unsee
First recorded in 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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But the best compliment I can pay Early is that, while you never quite unsee his jawline and strategic padding, his total commitment is such that it swings you over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Between the two actors’ faces lies a vast expanse of experience, disappointment, and things that Kay has seen and can’t unsee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Now that we’ve unearthed these lines, we can’t unsee them.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025
Ms Lucas said there were "scars we cannot unsee" and she was struggling with trusting others and herself.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
And in his early days of ushering, he’d once Recollected with a racoon who’d belonged to Pain, and quite frankly, he saw things he could not unsee.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
Sea horses gazed at me from dried, unseeing eye sockets, their snoutlike mouths frozen in a macabre O! of surprise.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2018
Few characters in ballet make as lasting an impression as the Sleepwalker, an enigmatic character with long, flowing hair who makes her unseeing entrance on point, holding a candle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
I swallowed and stared unseeing, the words spurting to me from a red, misty distance.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Instead of Gods like Poseidon and Zeus playing an integral role in the story, they are left as unseen forces that motivate the characters’ actions.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
This motion occurs when a star moves slightly toward and away from Earth as an unseen, massive object pulls on it while orbiting.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
At one point, they came upon previously unseen photographs from Saar’s early career as a costume mistress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Police in Australia have released previously unseen photographs from their investigation into the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio 25 years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He flinches and grunts in reaction to some unseen stimulus.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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