How to Use unheard in a Sentence
unheard
adjective- Their cries for help were unheard.
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To do that on the eve of the playoffs is almost unheard of.
—Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2022
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That would have been unheard of in the halls of 30 Rock even just a few years ago.
—Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
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For more than a decade, such a death toll was unheard of.
—Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2021
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The poem is this: The Fourth of July is now unheard of.
—John Annarino, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
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To match that mark through the first three games of this season would be unheard of.
—Scott Bell, Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2020
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The crash of bombs, wreaking death in streets still marked by the scars of war, cannot be unheard.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2020
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That kind of timeline is unheard of in the study of vaccines.
—Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2020
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In the very nascent stage of the eVTOL era, those numbers are unheard of.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 May 2021
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To even film something in black and white is unheard of.
—Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2023
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It’s even not unheard of to feel itchy enough to see a doctor about it.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Aug. 2020
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In the enterprise space, a go-live in a few days is unheard of.
—Olga Lykova, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Just a few years ago, all of this hubbub was unheard of.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2021
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It’s not unheard of for Team A to win by a lot and then Team B to take the second game by a lot.
—al, 16 Mar. 2021
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It’s also not unheard of for guests to try to poach crew for their own yachts.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2021
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Payouts in the one-to-two-million range are not unheard of.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
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Shah points to supports now in place that were once unheard of in the workplace.
—Anna Oakes, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
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While spikes around now aren’t unheard of, the average for the date is about 75 grains.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
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Two for two is unheard of for any writer, let alone a young one.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2022
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Such a sight was uncommon but not unheard of at the time.
—Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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Just three weeks ago such a meeting would have been unheard of.
—Ivan Levingston, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2020
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The idea that somebody looked up and nobody came over is unheard of.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
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And to have a 94-episode run is almost unheard-of nowadays.
—Yara Shahidi, Glamour, 5 May 2022
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When Prime launched in 2005, two-day shipping was unheard of.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
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Those kinds of results are unheard of at an FCS school in the modern era.
—Khari Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
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The whole idea of small-scale brewing and trying to make a living was unheard of.
—Alice Barlow, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
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That was unheard of, at a certain time, in a certain era.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
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But, the brand, which turns 40 this year, is virtually unheard of in the West.
—Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 1 Aug. 2020
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Their prize purse totals $12.6 million dollars, which is unheard of in track and field.
—Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
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His Portuguese-immigrant father, Miguel, moved to the gorge in 1984, when tourism in the area was practically unheard of.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
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