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How to use unlooked-for in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word unlooked-for? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Until that unlooked-for day, Bill C-36' impact can only be measured indirectly.
Such unlooked-for artists learn to make do with their situations, with the rough materials at hand.
With that unlooked-for transformation from a trading power to a governing power, the rationale for the Raj changed.
The most astonishing change in American life in recent times has been the unlooked-for disappearance of violent crime.
And, an unlooked-for bonus, he is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting.
After years of being celebrated by the bluegrass community, in the 1990s he found unlooked-for new audiences.
Landlessness among former subsistence farmers and impoverishment by loss of common resources have been unlooked-for consequences of the Green Revolution.
So sudden and unlooked-for was the attack, so exposed was their position, and for the moment so helpless did they feel, that, panic stricken, the band broke ground and fled towards the river in disorder.
At the same time, insofar as my experience is well-founded, you will reveal a treasure trove, the riches of which will cause the world to marvel, and from which mankind and you yourselves will derive an unlooked-for reward.
Naturally, Janetta was flabbergasted by such a totally unlooked-for query.
Stranded on the shores of an unlooked-for Indian summer, Burnet bakes.
Examples from Classical Literature
How this unlooked-for ending to my studies came about I must now set before you.
The satellite-theory has derived unlooked-for support from photometric inquiries.
My brain reeled beneath the first shock of that unlooked-for news.
I am astonished and mortified at this unlooked-for demonstration.
In the course of the morning there came an unlooked-for visitor.
There is one victory which leads to a most unlooked-for discovery.
He was overjoyed at this unlooked-for opportunity to obtain admission.
Leander was stupefied by such an unlooked-for misconception.
Her unlooked-for achievement was the subject of wonder, applause, and admiration.
But he was saved from a tumble heels over head by an unlooked-for diversion.
At the moment the most unlooked-for it pleased God to deliver me from it.
Two nights after the wheel of fortune gave an unlooked-for turn.
To-night is ripe for pleasure, and indeed, I would be merry as beseems a host Who finds a gracious and unlooked-for guest Waiting to greet him.
She received some unwelcome and quite unlooked-for intelligence before she started.
We distinguish an unlooked-for figure in our visionary scene.
Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
Suddenly an unlooked-for circumstance occurred to help me in my distress.
Not even the unlooked-for commutation of his sentence to transportation for fourteen years, softened for an instant the sullen hardihood of his demeanour.
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