uncherished

Example Sentences

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I recalled lost relatives, uncherished in their time and therefore a source of belated, worthless grief, and first loves, unrequited and now sweetly recollected.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016

For fifteen years, over what is, in fact, two generations in tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant and yet oddly uncherished national treasure.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2014

And, further, she genuinely did cause him to feel that throughout his career he had always missed the very best things of life, through being an uncherished, ingenuous, easily satisfied man.

From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Bennett, Arnold

That it should endure years, suffer discouragement, bridge distances and surmount obstacles, all uncherished and unrequited, was fiction, pure and simple.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

On their commencing their chanting, the men came forward, emerging from the darkness into the obscure light shed by the yet uncherished fires, like spectres.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles