unfamiliar

Example Sentences

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I walked unfamiliar streets with music carrying me on its wings, ate dinner at 10 p.m. and remembered who I was when no one needed me to be anything in particular.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

During Alonso's tenure, Valverde at times struggled to cement a starting spot in his natural role, being deployed in unfamiliar positions such as right-back.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

For my own training, I give an AI tool a passage of something I’m trying to learn––a speech, a chapter, a set of unfamiliar names––and then I close the screen and try to recall it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Take another look at that unfamiliar form you mentioned.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

There are other people, straggling revelers, giddy still with the war’s end, and clogging up the streets with their unfamiliar nocturnal activities.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse