unlit

Example Sentences

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Inside, Beshear was seated before an unlit fireplace, legs crossed, shirt collar unbuttoned, looking like the pleasantly unassuming Dad in a store-bought picture frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 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

At the start of the footage, he can be heard talking with his colleague Asaad al-Nassasra - whose fate remains unknown - as their ambulance drives along an unlit road at night-time.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 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