unsought
Example Sentences
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Someday, Portland’s anonymous vandals may confront in their own lives unsought circumstances that require an agonizing decision.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2020
No less than Eastwood’s films, “A Beautiful Day” is a work of intimate and tragic politics, of unsought heroism that’s cursed with the very fact of its necessity.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 2019
In the final chapters of “Fled,” Jenny reflects on her unsought notoriety: She is a curiosity, a spectacle, a source of entertainment for an audience that can never really know her.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
Arthur’s Jeddah Diary series, an intimate portrait of young women in Saudi Arabia, is a prime example of this unsought advantage.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2017
“Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world,” he wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
