left field
Example Sentences
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When a moment like that comes up that’s completely out of left field — unlike anything that I can remember on the show, even from before you were host — do you get nervous?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The warning is not coming out of left field.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
“There are legitimate water quality threats that we need to attack and rectify in a regulatory manner. And then there are things that are out in the left field that just distract people,” Donley said.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
The clear winner, out of left field, was Brazilian jiu-jitsu: a relatively new art accepted so rapidly that we already knew the basics from our Army combatives course.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
Came out of left field and caught me right in the gut.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
