How to Use unrehearsed in a Sentence

unrehearsed

adjective
  • This crossfire of looks reads so unrehearsed that when their gazes do meet, it feels charged with tension.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • So brands need to come across as unrehearsed, human and relatable.
    Tony Pec, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • That left the Brahms symphony unrehearsed until that evening’s show.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2022
  • However, Rowe flipped on the stand and claimed her interview was unrehearsed.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Funnily enough, Alexis can’t tell you what those unforced, unrehearsed words were.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Though the swearing made it onto the streamer, the moment seemed unrehearsed and did not look like anyone was expecting it.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The unrehearsed aspect of the musical segments only adds to the pleasure.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2024
  • These lyrics—unrehearsed, sweet, sincere—became the start of a new dad’s musical awakening.
    Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2022
  • His questions were clearly prepared, but his delivery seemed unrehearsed.
    Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • And, unrehearsed, Rogers sang the morose song of past love and played the piano, a real treat for fans who've been following her for the past decade.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
  • That moment was unrehearsed, said Barnett, who played Bush in Ferraro’s debate prep.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • One evening, after a few drinks and an unrehearsed jam, Howard and David headed back to their shack and David climbed into bed to get some sleep.
    Michael Kosser, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The number itself is astounding no matter what, but Tony also notes that the number was done in an unrehearsed single take.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • But during this quick, unrehearsed grasp at connection, readers see clearly why the rewards of that recognition are far higher than its cost.
    Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Most of Lorde’s moves, however, seemed more impulsive and improvised — unrehearsed, as if no one were watching.
    Timothy Finn, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Shires brought the song to its high point by trading bluesy, swampy fiddle solos and twin harmony with the backing band’s Noah Jeffries, unrehearsed.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The cause of this unrehearsed athletic and mental flatulence — field, to clubhouse, to front office — is another matter.
    Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Even a moment days in the making, days in the pondering, and days in the feeling, can upend expectations and require fresh, raw, unrehearsed response.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2022
  • An unrehearsed conversation affects the listener very differently from a work of art.
    Imani Perry, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • Then came the unrehearsed and classic cadence-call finish, one that will forever be his signature call and Zenyatta’s moment.
    Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • In a last-minute, unrehearsed addition, black student organizers wanted to address a letter that had appeared in the school’s newspaper.
    Anne Branigin, The Root, 9 Apr. 2018
  • But apparently those lines, though eloquently delivered, were unrehearsed.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Feb. 2016
  • Are your hilarious eyebrow-raising looks directly into camera unrehearsed?
    Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Tarr mixes professional and amateur performers, yet demands the same unrehearsed naturalism from each.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 June 2026
  • The impassioned celebration was quickly clipped and shared across social media, with thousands enjoying what initially looked like a release of unbridled, unrehearsed joy.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • There are moments at home (her tastefully extravagant Vegas mansion) that are clearly unrehearsed — like anytime Celine interacts with her twin teenage sons.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 June 2024
  • For over a decade Open Group has been creating unrehearsed situations, performative films, and spatial experiments.
    Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The live format and unrehearsed, off-beat interactions produced something TV hadn’t seen in a while — something bracingly alive with chaotic (and comedic) possibility.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
  • Play-by-play announcers—of which race callers are foundational—are unwittingly thrust into providing an unrehearsed soundtrack to history, words and emotions that will be replayed endlessly.
    Tim Layden, SI.com, 4 June 2018
  • The content is completely unrehearsed, just like live improv theater, and the combination of suggestions from the listeners and creative choices from the performers can be totally unpredictable.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2023

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