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Example sentences for "unresponsive"

Lexicographically close words:
unreservedly; unresisted; unresisting; unresistingly; unresolved; unresponsiveness; unrest; unrestful; unresting; unrestored
  1. What a powerful, warm-impulsed actuality, compared to that unresponsive void!

  2. His unresponsive silence seemed to dispirit her, for her eager eyes fell dejectedly.

  3. Never before had I gazed out on a mass of such unresponsive faces or looked into so many angry eyes.

  4. She clutched at the old woman's unresponsive shoulder.

  5. With a sleepy, satisfied laugh, like a petted kitten purring, she settled herself again, with her head against an unresponsive shoulder, and pulled an unresponsive arm round her waist.

  6. He drew a deep, sobbing breath of relief, dropped his dark head suddenly and awkwardly toward Judith's unresponsive hand and kissed it, and then very gently let it go.

  7. When he has flown forth I have endeavored to punch him in the head, and I have wasted my energy upon the unresponsive air.

  8. Her head, fallen partly back, rested a moment against his shoulder: she met his light caress with unresponsive lips and eyes that looked up blindly into his.

  9. He realised that the one thing that he dreaded was a cold tranquillity, uncheered by hope, unresponsive to beauty.

  10. They were fostered also by the activity of the marvel-loving impulse, which is unresponsive to the uniformities of nature, and favors mystic fable, while overlooking sensible fact.

  11. I thought I knew her fairly well: In fact, I'd had my arm around her; And so it's hard to have to tell How unresponsive I have found her.

  12. It's hard to have to tell How unresponsive I have found her.

  13. She was strangely unresponsive to his tender inquiries.

  14. Broken-spirited, Jane acquiesced in all their plans; she seemed as one in a stupor, comprehending, yet unresponsive to the pain that enveloped her.

  15. For the affection and sympathy he felt for his cousin refused to die, while his worship and passion towards an unresponsive woman increasingly consumed him.

  16. He was troubled and uneasy because so much of her lay unresponsive to his touch-- not needing him.

  17. He slaked himself on that dead and unresponsive mouth violently; he felt her frail and slender in the crush of his arms.

  18. He watched the blind man like an actor in a scene till he moved on again, with his stick tracing the edge of the curb and his strained face unresponsive to the sunlight.

  19. A sort of blind passion seized and possessed him; he kissed again and again the fragrant, unresponsive lips.

  20. But she only closed her eyes, and her lips remained coldly unresponsive to his.

  21. He partly lifted the veil, kissed the cold, unresponsive lips, the pallid cheek, the white-gloved fingers.

  22. Nasturtiums languished here and there, where some of the women had made an effort to fight the unresponsive red clay.

  23. He came and went like a polite, unresponsive shadow, spending silent evenings with her in the library, or acting as an irreproachable and unapproachable escort when escort was needed.

  24. To his amazement, the mind of the Vorkul was utterly unresponsive to his thoughts.

  25. Day after day passed, and even the new and ultra-powerful detector screens of the Sirius remained unresponsive and cold.

  26. He was surprised at the unresponsive air with which the boy nodded.

  27. By comparison the hostess's manner seemed unresponsive and preoccupied.

  28. His eyes were level with Miss Martha's as she stood two steps above him on the piazza, and he pressed her hard, little, unresponsive hand.

  29. Something must be done to win the favor of the strangely unresponsive round-faced man in the bunk.

  30. All the way to the cabin she followed closely, nosing from time to time at the unresponsive figure on the drag.

  31. She was unresponsive to the visible devotion of a Duke's eldest son, who came up to Lutwyche's standard in all particulars.

  32. The plight of this girl might have moved even an unresponsive heart, but Rosario showed a stolid face to her distress.

  33. She offered no comment, but sat in front of him, unresponsive as the sphinx.

  34. Some who excel in heavy athletics no doubt coarsen their motor reactions, become not only inexact and heavy but unresponsive to finer stimuli, as if the large muscles were hypertrophied and the small ones arrested.

  35. The darkness deepened in the room; the face of Jean on the pillow became dim and blurred, her hand lay slack and unresponsive in his grasp.

  36. Then he drew her gently down till their faces met upon the unresponsive face of their precious dead.

  37. I was as morose and unresponsive as an Egyptian mummy, and for a very excellent reason, I submit.

  38. You did not stay very long, sir," said he in a sad whisper, and for the life of me I couldn't determine what construction to put upon the singularly unresponsive remark.

  39. It was almost brutal, this furious violence to so gentle and unresponsive a countryside.

  40. Serene and unresponsive it brooded over the distant battle.

  41. A more unresponsive soul than yours can hardly have lived.

  42. He mounted chairs and tables to gaze into the stolid, unresponsive oil-painted faces of somebody's ancestry, he knew not whose.

  43. Sheep are the most unresponsive to human affection of any domesticated animal.

  44. In the darkness ahead he could hear the low voices of the men talking to the dogs and encouraging the unresponsive sheep.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unresponsive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aloof; anesthetized; arctic; autistic; blunt; callous; catatonic; chill; chilly; closed; cold; cool; dead; deaf; dispassionate; drugged; dull; frigid; frosted; frosty; frozen; hard; hardened; hardhearted; heartless; icy; immovable; impassive; impervious; inert; inflexible; inhibited; insensitive; insentient; insusceptible; lukewarm; negative; obdurate; objective; obstinate; obtuse; passionless; passive; phlegmatic; reserved; reticent; slow; soulless; spiritless; stony; unemotional; unfeeling; unimpassioned; unloving; unmerciful; unmoved; unnatural; unreceptive; unresponsive; unsusceptible; unsympathetic; untouchable; unyielding