unaccustomed
Example Sentences
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Breuer’s evangelizing has made him an important public figure in a country unaccustomed to seeing and hearing from men in uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana -- southern states unaccustomed to intense winter weather and the bone-chilling cold that's forecast to continue for much of the next week -- were especially impacted.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
He deploys a funky delivery that ends with him throwing the ball from high above his head, an arm slot opposing batters are unaccustomed to facing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Murderbot is stoic but awkward and unaccustomed to human emotions, which it learns about by surreptitiously watching hours of soap operas.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
I was unaccustomed to this scope of attention.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Vocabulary lists containing unaccustomed
Flowers for Algernon
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Stories of Ourselves
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