unalive
Example Sentences
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The intent was for them to appear unalive while still getting across a sense of the person they used to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
But because, in fact, it had never occurred to me that one might not engage deeply and absorbedly with unalive things.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
But there are all kinds of reasons why one might not distinguish, in one's loving relationships, between alive and unalive things.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023
The neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks, who's involved with the project, describes Henry as "almost unalive", but as soon as the music starts there's a complete transformation.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2012
Another hint that Ebola is extremely ancient is the way in which it can seem neither quite alive nor quite unalive.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
