unheard-of

Example Sentences

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She also commissioned original scores from American composers, choosing to use contemporary music from her own country—an unheard-of thing to do when she began, Ross says.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those visions, as unheard-of divine communion with a woman, draw her into conflict with priests who find them false.

From Los Angeles Times

“Imagine that the tools of chemistry could be used to create entirely new materials with unheard-of properties,” Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal

His thesis at the Navy Academy was in the unheard-of topic of liquid-fuel engines.

From BBC

The New York Yankees emerged as the franchise most willing to pay players previously unheard-of salaries, inadvertently helping the efforts of Miller and Moss.

From Los Angeles Times