Example Sentences

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With his unlidded eye, the photographer spotted us where we had crouched behind the piano.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

It must have been a little after midnight when Gollum woke up: suddenly they were aware of his pale eyes unlidded gleaming at them.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The bright eye unlidded and gazed at him sleepily.

From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Haley, Bart

Its uncurtained windows were red with the sinking sun, as though bloodshot and inflamed from a too-long unlidded existence.

From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret

These pots have a very cave-man look about them; they are unglazed, unlidded bowls. 

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.