unsung

Example Sentences

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For years, Fede Valverde has been Real Madrid's unsung hero.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Tartines are the unsung heroes of party food.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026

Jerome A. Cohen’s name should figure on every list of unsung American titans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Melissa McCarthy is an everywoman intelligence agent who chooses to go into the field for the first time in this strangely unsung hero of modern comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Other riders Sansa did not know; hedge knights from the Fingers and Highgarden and the mountains of Dome, unsung freeriders and new-made squires, the younger sons of high lords and the heirs of lesser houses.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin