uncustomary

Example Sentences

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In her last years, exiled to the desert due to failing health and lack of institutional support, Wanda passed after an uncustomary silence.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

From Congress to the mainstream Jewish community, many have been stunned into uncustomary silence, others have broken with long tradition and voiced outright criticism.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2023

Otherwise, save for Carmichael's measured jabs, it was business-as-usual along the red carpet parade, where celebrities returned to being honored to participate in the Globes ceremony and pretend nothing was uncustomary.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023

Mr. Farrell has found himself in an uncustomary role: beseeching his suppliers to allocate more of their goods to him so that his company can work through a growing backlog of orders.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

I have said that it is important to give the freest scope possible to uncustomary things, in order that it may in time appear which of these are fit to be converted into customs.

From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart