unsought

Example Sentences

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On the 21st of April, only a third of the way through spring, our 88 degrees may have seemed thermal precocity, an unsought rush to summer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

“Oh, I’m running,” he said in an interview on Wednesday before a town-hall meeting, hoping to dispel chatter that Mr. Kennedy could drive him into unsought retirement.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2019

That’s because the second, unsought product of their big night out is knowledge and empathy, and learning to question the disparaging assumptions they’ve made about their classmates who seemingly coasted through high school.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

“That is an unintended, unsought after byproduct of the movie,” Hunter says.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2017

“Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world,” he wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson