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

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

A “New Members Orientation” memento candle on the side table was unlit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 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

With all my classmates, I went to the unlit church where the nun led us through the forms of an ‘examination of conscience.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez