unfamiliar

Example Sentences

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The prosecutor and the trial judge were not unfamiliar names.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Ibrahima Konate, on the right, carried out these instructions throughout the game in support of Jeremie Frimpong - but the distances he ended up having to cover in an unfamiliar role left him exposed.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

And even though the women won a championship in 1978, under the women’s-only AIAW, it soon fell into decades of unfamiliar Bruins mediocrity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

I walked unfamiliar streets with music carrying me on its wings, ate dinner at 10 p.m. and remembered who I was when no one needed me to be anything in particular.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

He might never have learned to appreciate how easy and thrilling it was to jump from one continent to another, or how to embrace the unfamiliar.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama