unsought

Example Sentences

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On the 21st of April, only a third of the way through spring, our 88 degrees may have seemed thermal precocity, an unsought rush to summer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

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

Arthur’s Jeddah Diary series, an intimate portrait of young women in Saudi Arabia, is a prime example of this unsought advantage.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2017

Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman was asked by the Expressen newspaper Tuesday whether he was upset by Trump’s unsought assessment.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 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