uncherished

Example Sentences

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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

Unvisited as uncherished,  Save by the wandering wave!

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Stevens, Bertram

And, further, she genuinely did cause him to feel that throughout his career he had always missed the very best things of life, through being an uncherished, ingenuous, easily satisfied man.

From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Bennett, Arnold

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