How to Use unheard-of in a Sentence

unheard-of

adjective
  • That’s far from unheard-of on the iOS app store, and wouldn’t be surprising on the Vision Pro at all.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 23 July 2023
  • Riding of deer by the monkeys of Yakushima Island is rare, but not unheard-of.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The forecast calls for an unheard-of 10 to 15 feet of surge in Tampa Bay depending on the storm's exact track.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At that time, the concept of openly gay parents was mostly unheard-of in the culture at large.
    Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Viganò took the unheard-of step of calling for Francis to resign.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
  • At that time, the concept of openly gay parents was still mostly unheard-of in the culture at large.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • This prompted the businessman to open a bakery inside the grocery store, an unheard-of idea at the time.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 26 June 2023
  • Not so long ago, Kobayashi tells me, treehouses were almost unheard-of in Japan.
    Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • He was given an unheard-of seven-year contract to build the next great Penguins team.
    Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The Ukrainians, in fact, were expending artillery shells at an unheard-of rate.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Eight different players found the back of the net for the Americans in the matchup, with Chase Adams leading the way by scoring an unheard-of 10 goals in the outing.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
  • In terms of storage, count on two deep side pockets and an unheard-of three — yes, that’s not a typo — waistband pockets.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Up to that point in the South, a Black witness identifying white defendants in court was unheard-of.
    Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • The Pacers also scored 40 points in the paint in the first half alone, an unheard-of stat for a Knicks team dominating the paint for the majority of the season.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
  • Long medical absences are not unheard-of in the Senate.
    Annie Karni, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Not to mention, the stock is currently on an almost unheard-of 15-day winning streak.
    Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Louis Cartier named her the director of artistic design in 1933, an unheard-of post for a woman at that time.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Fighting off paramedics was not unheard-of with trauma victims.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • Electoral inscriptions in the bakery hint that buying votes was not unheard-of.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In its first season, the operation had an unheard-of 90 percent fly rate.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Such a diagnosis is not unheard-of, some cancer experts not involved in the king’s care say.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Such a diagnosis is not unheard-of, some cancer experts not involved in the king’s care say.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Though not often, brawls are not unheard-of in Turkish parliament.
    Reuters, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
  • That means unheard-of prices on Free People outerwear, Ugg slippers, and moody fall dresses.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Scenes of the most desperate people trawling through bins for food — once unheard-of — shocked the majority of Greeks who struggled to make ends meet.
    Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 24 June 2023
  • Canady, the national player of the year, had received a $1 million NIL deal — an unheard-of amount outside of football and men’s basketball.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • The directors and the CEO had reached an impasse over the latter’s plan to take the company private; still, resigning en masse is an unheard-of step for a startup board.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Apparently, this isn't an unheard-of problem, based on comments on her post.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2023
  • That’s basically an unheard-of perk for Gen X and younger Americans.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The trail finally opened in early February, an unheard-of delay, with six inches of ice.
    Joanna Slater, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023

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