unsought

Example Sentences

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Like the hundreds of thousands protesting Floyd’s murder, this unsought public affirmation of Black people’s innate value — by countless openhearted people who aren’t Black — felt surprising.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2021

Over the decades, he relinquished the hope that he would ever write an opera, much the way someone who has missed out on love resigns himself to unsought solitude.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

But as the story becomes about the city’s need to worship at Bauman’s wheelchair, Gyllenhaal’s sidesteps dignity and saintliness and inhabits the horror of unsought heroism.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017

“That is an unintended, unsought after byproduct of the movie,” Hunter says.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2017

“Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world,” he wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson