How to Use unknown in a Sentence

unknown

1 of 2 adjective

• The victim's attacker was unknown to her.
• Much remains unknown about his early life.
• For some unknown reason, my computer crashed.
• An unknown number of cases go unreported.
• Her music was previously unknown outside of Asia.
• The cause of the blast remained unknown late Friday night.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• The events leading up to the shooting are still unknown.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 25 Jan. 2024
• The artists are unknown, and some objects may be the product of more than one pair of hands.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• What happened to the people who starred in the film is also unknown.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• The lieutenant said the motive for and the circumstances of the killing are also unknown.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• The long-term effects of progestin use are still unknown, Pirie said.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 23 Mar. 2023
• The paintings are unknown in Sloviansk, let alone the world.
  — Samya Kullab The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
• The eventual ruling reached by the EU, the date of which is still unknown, would be non-binding.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 22 Dec. 2023
• What is included in Books 2 has been the largest unknown, but the exhibits in the complaint lay out some of what could be in there.
  — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 10 July 2023
• The condition of her 7-year-old sibling is unknown at this time.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• For Vermont, the full extent of this week’s damage is still unknown.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Matute and the victims knew each other, but the motive for the shooting is unknown, police say.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• Ancient art Today, the names of the artists who crafted these ancient works are unknown.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• During a search of the Chevy, police found a plastic bag with an unknown white powder.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
• Police had no description of the shooter, and the motive for the assault was unknown.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2023
• So Love didn’t pick up the first call from an unknown number 10 minutes later, or the second one.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• The effect these words will have on President Putin is unknown.
  — Dan Brooks, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Details regarding who would pen the tracks, or sing the numbers are unknown.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
• The cause of the fire was unknown and is being investigated.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• An end date and the scope of any potential problems remain unknown.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• What is unknown is where some of these crews will ultimately end up.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2023
• In the aftermath of the Ukrainian withdrawal, their fate was unknown.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Those sales also release an unknown amount of weaponry into the world.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The father and daughter's whereabouts were unknown after that.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• The male victim was shot by an unknown suspect, who fled, Dallas police said.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2023

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unknown

2 of 2 noun

• A fear of the unknown kept her from changing jobs.
• The director cast an unknown in the lead role.
• We're facing too many unknowns.
• That is among the most unknowns in the Big 12 (Baylor has a depth chart with 29).
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
• But how much the state could bring in, and how early, is a huge unknown.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
• But it’s the actor up there on the stage who has to take that leap into the unknown.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• For an opener full of unknowns, there was a lot to like.
  — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• There are still many unknowns as the Cougars prepare to open the season.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
• The big unknown is how the switch to 988 will affect the number of people who call for help.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2022
• The study cautions that there are still many unknowns about the causes of red wine headaches.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2023
• And then beyond the funding, there is a huge unknown around staffing.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• To this end, Mr. Watson is working hard to chart a course into the unknown.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
• But those beings, like us, have to go through life prepared to face many huge unknowns.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2023
• The unknown is Nathanial Hackett, in his freshman year as a head coach.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• The number of insights lost in the storm is an unknowable unknown.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• Despite the many unknowns Moreno has faced throughout her life, it’s all led to this moment.
  — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• For months, the Barbie movie’s vast unknown has been one of its greatest assets.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 11 July 2023
• Staying with the Kirby Smiths for a time—and for pay—could have seemed a safer move than leaping into the unknown.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
• Her Dog Seyfried explained that Finn helped ground her in a career where there are so many unknowns.
  — Celeste McCauley, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• That’s to a whole bunch of unknown, unknowns with the legal calendar.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
• There are still many unknowns about how explorers would deal with a death.
  — Emmanuel Urquieta, The Conversation, 31 July 2023
• Which means that even after all the lab work, there are still going to be some unknown unknowns.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• But the post-Turing-test world is not a leap into the great external unknown.
  — Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2023
• The greatest unknown is the effect flooding and heavy rains from Hurricane Ian will have over the long term.
  — Curt Anderson, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2022
• Central Florida, one of the new unknowns in the Big 12, is a home game for Oklahoma.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The team removed that from the list of unknowns with the announcement on Tuesday afternoon that the team had picked the East Crossroads.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2024
• And at this point, the unknown is really just how quickly and how sharply the housing market will fall.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• As is the case with anything, there are still some unknowns about what other issues could arise with over-the-counter naloxone.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 29 Mar. 2023
• There are betting markets for just about all of these unknowns, so Galen asks the crew to make an assessment of the going odds.
  — Galen Druke, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Logan looked to cast an unknown after his first choice for the role, Audrey Hepburn, turned him down.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023

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