unsought

Example Sentences

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Like the hundreds of thousands protesting Floyd’s murder, this unsought public affirmation of Black people’s innate value — by countless openhearted people who aren’t Black — felt surprising.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2021

“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

Over the decades, he relinquished the hope that he would ever write an opera, much the way someone who has missed out on love resigns himself to unsought solitude.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

Arthur’s Jeddah Diary series, an intimate portrait of young women in Saudi Arabia, is a prime example of this unsought advantage.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 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