unlit

Example Sentences

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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

They said the wrecked car appeared "all of a sudden" with no lights on an unlit part of motorway, making it "really hard to see it until the last moment".

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024

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

For the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was nothing if not thousands upon thousands of unlit wicks waiting for flame.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny