unlooked-for
Example Sentences
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Both actors completely inhabit their absorbing roles, relishing the opportunity their exchanges provide and adding unlooked-for layers to a complicated human relationship.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
We have been supplying a legitimate professional demand and not once could have foreseen the unlooked-for results.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2022
Like she did with Bloodborne PSX, Walther will provide daily development updates on her Twitter page, offering neat tidbits into the making of such an unlooked-for but right-on-time project.
From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2022
“Ah those days,” writes Carr in A Month in the Country, which is that extraordinary thing, a novel that manages to bring alive, without sentimentality, a rare, unlooked-for few weeks of gentle happiness.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2018
‘But often I must put mirth aside. Elladan and Elrohir have returned out of the Wild unlooked-for, and they had tidings that I wished to hear at once.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
