unfamiliar

Example Sentences

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The prosecutor and the trial judge were not unfamiliar names.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

And even though the women won a championship in 1978, under the women’s-only AIAW, it soon fell into decades of unfamiliar Bruins mediocrity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a dangerous, bureaucratic limbo with little support and no clear path forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

For its cast, bringing that reality to screen meant stepping into deeply personal and, for many, unfamiliar territory.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Zoya Pozhidayeva and other pilots in her squadron of the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment were at an unfamiliar airfield when they heard.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein