unsought

Example Sentences

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On the 21st of April, only a third of the way through spring, our 88 degrees may have seemed thermal precocity, an unsought rush to summer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

No less than Eastwood’s films, “A Beautiful Day” is a work of intimate and tragic politics, of unsought heroism that’s cursed with the very fact of its necessity.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 21, 2019

“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

“That is an unintended, unsought after byproduct of the movie,” Hunter says.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 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