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

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

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

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 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