unsung

Example Sentences

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This week the King met unsung heroes providing local government services, and later this week his film about his philosophy of harmony will be released.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

Tartines are the unsung heroes of party food.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026

Jerome A. Cohen’s name should figure on every list of unsung American titans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Melissa McCarthy is an everywoman intelligence agent who chooses to go into the field for the first time in this strangely unsung hero of modern comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

As the lightning flashed and the thunder cracked, I, the unsung quarterback of an unsung team, rose up out of that mud not once, but twice, to achieve football immortality.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor