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Example sentences for "unlit"

Lexicographically close words:
unlimbering; unlimited; unlined; unliquidated; unlisted; unload; unloaded; unloading; unloads; unlock
  1. Joyselle's arm jerked and the unlit cigarette flew out into the darkness.

  2. An empty carriage, if there is one, please," she asked the guard, and he opened a door and helped her into a still unlit compartment.

  3. For some seconds he lay staring about the unlit cabin, mouth dry, heart hammering with apprehension.

  4. In his right hand he holds a candle-stick of tin with an unlit candle in it and a bunch of keys; with his left hand he shades his sensitive eyes.

  5. A yellow chest of drawers stands between the two windows; upon it is set an unlit kerosene lamp; a mirror hangs above it on the wall.

  6. Perhaps the neighbours may hear her sobbing to herself in the dark, with the fire burnt out for want of fuel, and the candle still unlit upon the table.

  7. This attic was a most chilly and dismal spot, reached by a crazy ladder, and unlit save for a single frosted window; so low at the eaves and so dark that we could seldom stand upright, nor see without a candle.

  8. Her little face, seen now in repose, unlit by the light that glowed in her eyes when she looked at him, was piteous with fatigue.

  9. But Marion shook her head and put out a prohibitory hand with so urgent a gesture that the unlit lantern which hung by a strap from her wrist bumped against the glass.

  10. Hans and Fritz were understood to be creeping back, to be examining the unlit fuse, to be applying a light thereunto, in order to restore it to its maker after their custom.

  11. Then bits of it were attached to tin-bombs and shied--unlit of course--into the German trenches.

  12. That only touch, that feeling only, Enough we found, we found too much; For the unlit shrine is hardly lonely As one the old fire forgets to touch.

  13. He had a big unlit cigar in his mouth, which he was constantly chewing.

  14. Weiss removed his unlit cigar from his mouth, and drew a little breath.

  15. Weiss reached out his hand for a box of cigars, and biting the end off one, put it unlit into his mouth.

  16. Corbett's eyes involuntarily followed those of his newly-found friend, and he started as they rested upon Steve Chance, who now sat nervously chewing at the end of an unlit cigar in the middle of the poker players.

  17. For a little while Steve Chance sat moodily biting at the stem of his unlit pipe, and then he asked Corbett-- "Are you going to join Rampike for his fall hunt, Ned?

  18. Rickie talks to Mr. Pembroke, amidst the unlit valleys of our over-habitable world.

  19. He filled his pipe, and then sat pressing the unlit tobacco with his thumb.

  20. Then, before Wrayson could recover from the shock of her words, she was gone, flitting down the unlit side of the street with swift silent footsteps.

  21. I left somewhere in the small hours of the morning, and walked along the Albert Road on the unlit side of the street.

  22. They glided past the front of the great unlit house, past another strip of woodland, and then up a narrow stream.

  23. Margaret's coffee was untasted, even her cigarette lay unlit by her side.

  24. You know you must go down a long withdrawing To reach the unlit places of your heart, Which are the night within my unknown eyes Beyond all stars; so let me touch you once.

  25. When they found him he lay resting on his elbows and gazing with blank eyes of horror at his unlit fire.

  26. He lay supported by his elbows, his eyes gazing blankly at the unlit fire.

  27. The people in the building, hearing this mass of men approach in the dark, unlit street, thought that they were the enemy, and opened fire on them.

  28. Peaceful ships that approached its uncharted and unlit shores were fired upon.

  29. They wrenched open the wooden door and hurried down the dark steps into the gloomy, unlit cellar.

  30. They sat at a small round table lit by shaded lights, in the centre of an apartment which was large in reality, and which seemed vast by reason of the shadows which hovered around the unlit spaces.

  31. The servant was standing in the gloom of an unlit portion of the passage.

  32. Eleanor swept me through a hall that smelled of poverty, up unlit stairs to a bare slit of a room.

  33. Upon the table were the remains of a supper--decaying fruit, half-consumed champagne and an unlit cigar lying on one of the plates.

  34. Next moment I was beside the pair, and to my dismay recognised that her companion was the fellow Logan, whom I had last seen entering that dark unlit house outside Milan.

  35. I smell a rat,' said Smyth, who had in his mouth an unlit cigarette, which had fastened itself to his lip and bobbed up and down with his speech, like a miniature baton.

  36. Repressing a chuckle by a great effort, Mathews hastily fumbled for his corncob pipe, and placing it unlit in his mouth, continued to look into space with a face that was almost purple from smothered exuberance.

  37. He was also holding an unlit cigar in his hand, which he left in the hedge.

  38. You'll be able to place him," and he twirled the unlit cheroot between his lips with bewildering rapidity.

  39. I read it too," broke in Sir John Dene, who had hitherto remained an interested listener, as he sat twirling round between his lips the still unlit cheroot.

  40. Ughtred took up his as yet unlit cigarette, and Sara sipped her coffee.

  41. The priest, who had come through from the dining-car, held between his fingers an unlit cigar.

  42. Up at that dark, unlit window had flashed for a moment the pale, terror-stricken face of a woman, drawn back almost at once by an unseen hand.

  43. The room, huge, unlit and darkened with tapestry hangings, seemed full of mysterious shadows.

  44. The town naturally was unlit for fear of aircraft, and yet there was a queer feeling that every one was looking at you as you walked up and down in the dark.

  45. Far away, half veiled by the mists of night, unlit by the evening star, lay the coast.

  46. The Romans moved, as upon a stage, before her, unlit battling faces, clashing voices and armor; and the bearded Jews heavily collecting and confuting.

  47. For an instant it was lost again, but the searchlight swept back, groped until the tramp was caught, and this time held--in all her unlit wickedness.

  48. Since the newspaper became powerful, topic has supplanted fable, and subject comes to the artist untrimmed and unlit by the vitality of many minds.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unlit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    black; dark; dusky; ebony; obscure; obscured; pitchy; rayless; starless; sunless; tenebrous; unilluminated; unlit