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How to use unwonted in a sentence

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McCreesh's scholarship is not in doubt, yet the performance bears no traces of dryness or unwonted caution.
As such, these data may well acquire an unwonted historical significance if the potential ecological impact of the disease becomes a reality.
In other conflicts, too, Roman armies seemed to have unwonted difficulties.
So he will miss an event which last year afforded him more, unwonted, publicity than ever before in his life.
Despite the unwonted showers over the past week, she said, St Lucia was experiencing effects of the dry season.
Why is it that London is in the throes of a simultaneous and quite unwonted dim sum explosion?
It was the unwanted, unwonted curiosity it raised, racing from one possibility to another instead of letting me doze off.
He is describing a paradigm shift, and this fact is all the more obvious for his unwonted coyness in discussing it.
I can say that the engineering gives the violin and piano unwonted realism and spatial presence.
It was a question of degree for the tribunal in each case to decide whether the change of mind is too late to recover from the unwise and unwonted words.
Leinsdorf shows unwonted impetuosity in his approach to tempos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while not consistently as refined as it could be, plays the music tautly.
In the wake of Sandy, the cyclone that savaged America's North Atlantic coast, rival religious figures found unwonted if unconscious agreement.
But the Treasury select committee, in particular, has risen to unwonted prominence.
He followed her progress almost as much by imagination as by perception, but even through such tenuous tracking he could tell that she was moving with unwonted deliberation.
It is 14 years since this great American choreographer's death, and after a period of unwonted chaos, the future of her company at last looms clear.
He complied of course, and stood shading his haggard face in the unwonted sunlight of the great window, looking as wan and unearthly as if he had been summoned from the grave.
And yet, while the progress of the biomedical sciences is raising unprecedented expectations, it is also a source of unwonted perplexity whenever the question of its moral legitimacy is raised.
The young men and women experience an unwonted degree of freedom, and are able to discuss their personal and social situation individually or in groups.
Examples from Classical Literature
Was not his unwonted self-defence itself admission of new enlightenment and approachability?
Stockings, knickerbockers, and blouse were drawn on with unwonted rapidity.
Only the surprise of it, his own dumb unreadiness, his unwonted lack of ingenuity and diplomatics had almost lost her to him.
The little supper was tastily arranged, the tea and the chop had an unwonted fragrance.
It was a breezy afternoon, with some turbulency in the camp, and much windy discussion over this unwonted delay of justice.
Ye see, said Mrs. yammer, following up briskly her unwonted independent movement, we get it atween us.
Mother noticed my unwonted grandeur when I went in to say good-night to her.
Then she heard her uncle's voice, speaking sharply and with unwonted sternness.
There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses.
Some fell into unwonted silence, while the gestures of the rest were equally significant.
The next Sunday, there was the unwonted occurrence of a sermon after vespers.
His zeal even reached the unwonted climax of rummaging in a godown for tin-lined cases and helping her to pack her offerings.
I find that older people as well are tempted to unwonted energy if promised a glimpse of the walking fern.
He nodded, leaning back against the well-padded cushions with an air of finding unwonted ease.
In front of Sandy Jim stood Chad's Bess, who had shown an unwonted quietude and fixity of attention ever since Dinah had begun to speak.
As I entered I saw, it is true, an unwonted tidiness, but the old landmarks were all in their place.
In an unwonted mood of expansion he turned to Mali-ya-bwana.
He appeared surprised at finding Newman, but his surprise was but a momentary shadow across the surface of an unwonted joviality.
Poyser answering for the rest with unwonted vivacity of tongue, for he had all the appropriate wedding-day jokes at his command.
But the rest of the men slept heavily, seizing the unwonted chance.
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