unfamiliar

Example Sentences

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So when Ilya offers him a tuna melt in episode four — something warm, messy, unfamiliar — and Shane accepts without hesitation, it’s not small.

From Salon

Days seem longer when exploring shops in unfamiliar parts of town or making friends while volunteering at a city park.

From The Wall Street Journal

A subcontractor unfamiliar with modular construction might bid a project higher than they otherwise would to compensate for the uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times

For Africa's leaders, who for years have been arguing that they should be dining at the top table, it was not an unfamiliar analogy.

From BBC

Darren Stewart, coroner for Suffolk, said different schools using different safeguarding information management tools "may result in a risk to life due to teachers being unfamiliar" with new systems when they changed jobs.

From BBC