uncherished

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

I recalled lost relatives, uncherished in their time and therefore a source of belated, worthless grief, and first loves, unrequited and now sweetly recollected.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016

For fifteen years, over what is, in fact, two generations in tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant and yet oddly uncherished national treasure.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2014

Have pity on thy child, who will be left In infancy, uncherished, and the ward Of unkind guardians; lay to heart the woes Which loss of thee would bring on him and me.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin

As she merged into womanhood, unpro- tected, uncherished, uncared for, there fell on her ear the music of love, awakening an intensity of emotion long dormant.

From Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there by Wilson, Harriet E.

Unvisited as uncherished,  Save by the wandering wave!

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram