unalive

Example Sentences

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The intent was for them to appear unalive while still getting across a sense of the person they used to be.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024

But because, in fact, it had never occurred to me that one might not engage deeply and absorbedly with unalive things.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

But there are all kinds of reasons why one might not distinguish, in one's loving relationships, between alive and unalive things.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

The neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks, who's involved with the project, describes Henry as "almost unalive", but as soon as the music starts there's a complete transformation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2012

The rest of her seemed unalive, like a pale wax model of my mother: the woman who could not fight fire with fire, even to save her children.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver