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
“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
“Pericles,” the tale of a seafaring prince who experiences unfathomable loss and unlooked-for redemption, has its problems.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2016
His hand and shoulder were twitching from the unlooked-for contact.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
