ADJECTIVE
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not set afire or burning
the table was bare, the candles unlighted
held an unlit cigarette -
without illumination
came up the lightless stairs
the unilluminated side of Mars
through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets
How To Use unlighted In A Sentence
- The refrigeration unit was unlighted, but seeds occasionally were exposed to light when the door was opened to remove or introduce other lots of seeds.
- The three machines stood like weird night monsters at the gravelled foot of the wide stairway under the unlighted porte-cochere. Chapter II
- Our nature dim, like to an unlighted torch, sleeps in formless blank till the fire attain it; this life of life, this light to moon, and glory to the sun. I.4a
- Where we stayed there are no buses, no taxis, no trains, and the nearest pub is five miles away along unlighted, pitch-black roads.
- Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
- Late in the evening, Frank Cain is driving down an unlighted stretch of the main road into San Marcello, near Jensen Hill.
- Kuroishi is unlighted, and I was tumbling and stumbling along in overhaste when a strong arm cleared the way, and the house-master appeared with a very pretty lantern, hanging close to the ground from a cane held in the hand. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- Here and there were ornate iron braziers, now cold and unlighted.
- And, as he bore her out of the high tower and descended the unlighted, interminable stairs of stone, he heard her weeping against his breast and softly asking intercession in behalf of a dead young man who had tried to be to her a "Kamerad" -- as he understood it -- including the entire gamut, from amorous beast to fiend. Barbarians
- Take one unlighted candle away to give to someone who needs a ray of light.