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How to use unsee in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb

Unsee means to undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something. Example: “Although his eyes were open, the sleepwalker headed, with unseeing eyes, towards the danger.”

Examples of unsee by meaning

verbTo undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of...

  • And, as Laura says, you can’t unsee it.1969, Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap, page 180
  • Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.1977, Stephen King, The Shining
  • Once one has “seen” the well-known gestalt psychology drawing of the young woman in a fur coat, she cannot be “unseen” after one notices the alternative, an old crone1991, E. Roy Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics, page 94

More sentences with unsee

  • Although his eyes were open, the sleepwalker headed, with unseeing eyes, towards the danger.From the entry unseeing
  • The cave frog's eyes have devolved into unseeing lumps.From the entry unseeing
  • With black unseeing eyes the old woman, the crone, stares at him and through him.2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Six”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry crone
  • Once you see it, you can't unsee it.2022 April 7, Marc Andreessen, Twitter. From the entry current thing
  • With the unseeing eyes of an office-goer she looked at Hong Kong passing before her on the bright hot morning. .2010, Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang, The Book of Change, →ISBN, page 287. From the entry office-goer
  • I see a singing darkness in my unseeing eyes.1992, Wiesław Myśliwski, The palace, page 109. From the entry densen
  • To unsee what has been seen.2014, V.L. Ewing, The Expert: - Book 1. From the entry unfeel
  • The female attendant, face like a headman's axe, walking down between the tall brown doors, carrying a yellow duster, landlady of all she surveyed, commentless, unseeing and disapproving.1968, Keith Claire, Duringwitch, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →ISBN, pages 19–20. From the entry commentless
  • Her face was pale, yellowish, with a clear, transparent skin, she leaned forward rather, her features were strongly marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative look.1914, D. H. Lawrence, The Wedding Ring. From the entry predative

Meaning of unsee

  1. verb To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.

Full definition of unsee

Questions about unsee in a sentence

How do you use unsee in a sentence?
Unsee is used as a verb. For example: “Although his eyes were open, the sleepwalker headed, with unseeing eyes, towards the danger.”
What is a short sentence with unsee?
“To unsee what has been seen.”
What does unsee mean?
Unsee means to undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.

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