unsought

Example Sentences

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Someday, Portland’s anonymous vandals may confront in their own lives unsought circumstances that require an agonizing decision.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2020

That’s because the second, unsought product of their big night out is knowledge and empathy, and learning to question the disparaging assumptions they’ve made about their classmates who seemingly coasted through high school.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

But as the story becomes about the city’s need to worship at Bauman’s wheelchair, Gyllenhaal’s sidesteps dignity and saintliness and inhabits the horror of unsought heroism.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017

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