unlit

Example Sentences

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Goldman celebrated his 67th birthday in the unit, with cake and an unlit candle delivered by his medical team, who also sang Happy Birthday to him on video.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Inside, Beshear was seated before an unlit fireplace, legs crossed, shirt collar unbuttoned, looking like the pleasantly unassuming Dad in a store-bought picture frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

At last I was admitted inside, into the main hall, a cold room with an unlit hearth and a ceiling of blond pine.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2025

This, of course, was my mother’s worst nightmare: Traveling solo, I’d been coaxed by a stranger into an unlit building in a remote Saudi village, within a volatile border area that the U.S.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

He watched sourly, an unlit cigar clamped between his teeth, as I scrambled aboard an inch ahead of the closing doors.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam