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

Men trickled in from the unlit street, using the flashlight on their phones to climb three flights of concrete steps until they reached the rooftop.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

It consisted solely of heaps of stones—which were handy for throwing down the hole—together with a few rusty Genoese cross-bows with their bolts and a pile of turfs for the unlit fire.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White