unlooked-for
Example Sentences
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But it turns out — spoiler alert — that he’s “something of a military genius” who has unlooked-for gifts as a guerilla leader.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
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
A Month in the Country is set in 1920; Birkin somehow survived Passchendaele – the extreme shade a setting for his jewel of a Yorkshire summer, an unlooked-for gift given “on borrowed time”.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2018
When they rely on what Kassirer calls “quick and dirty summaries,” medical residents no longer give themselves opportunities to enrich their memories with unlooked-for facts.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2014
‘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
