unlooked-for
Example Sentences
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Both actors completely inhabit their absorbing roles, relishing the opportunity their exchanges provide and adding unlooked-for layers to a complicated human relationship.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
We have been supplying a legitimate professional demand and not once could have foreseen the unlooked-for results.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2022
Like she did with Bloodborne PSX, Walther will provide daily development updates on her Twitter page, offering neat tidbits into the making of such an unlooked-for but right-on-time project.
From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2022
A Month in the Country is set in 1920; Birkin somehow survived Passchendaele – the extreme shade a setting for his jewel of a Yorkshire summer, an unlooked-for gift given “on borrowed time”.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2018
His hand and shoulder were twitching from the unlooked-for contact.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
