unsought

Example Sentences

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Someday, Portland’s anonymous vandals may confront in their own lives unsought circumstances that require an agonizing decision.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2020

It’s a reminder of the possibility of a built environment in which not just monuments but all the moments of everyday life could be—in the sense of being endowed with unsought grace, calm, and dignity—Stollerized.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2019

“Oh, I’m running,” he said in an interview on Wednesday before a town-hall meeting, hoping to dispel chatter that Mr. Kennedy could drive him into unsought retirement.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2019

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

“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