How to Use unheard in a Sentence

unheard

adjective
  • Their cries for help were unheard.
  • To do that on the eve of the playoffs is almost unheard of.
    Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The poem is this: The Fourth of July is now unheard of.
    John Annarino, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • To even film something in black and white is unheard of.
    Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the enterprise space, a go-live in a few days is unheard of.
    Olga Lykova, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Payouts in the one-to-two-million range are not unheard of.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Shah points to supports now in place that were once unheard of in the workplace.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
  • While spikes around now aren’t unheard of, the average for the date is about 75 grains.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Those kinds of results are unheard of at an FCS school in the modern era.
    Khari Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That was unheard of, at a certain time, in a certain era.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Prices start at just $50 — which is unheard of for Sam Edelman.
    Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The persistence of hot and dry conditions is unheard of in parts of the region.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • By and large that was unheard of — a bunch of young cats, men and women, mid-20s to early 30s, opening flagship stores.
    Khalil Kinsey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • While snowfall in June isn’t unheard of in the region, enough to pile up on roads and halt traffic is much less common.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • In most parts of the country, fall weather can vary widely even in the course of a day—snow isn’t unheard of, and neither is a streak of blazing sun.
    Kristina Rutkowski, wsj.com, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This kind of policy isn't unheard of in the game industry.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2022
  • So, summer-like days in February are not unheard of in these parts.
    David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The producer ended up not coming to the recordings, which is unheard of.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Party switching, of course, not unheard of in the United States Senate.
    NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • There is some risk to booking through a third-party app, though, and fake reservations are not unheard of.
    Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 30 July 2023
  • That would have meant my music was going to remain unheard by other corners of the world.
    Shania Twain Built Her Own Country, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Down: One of the less common types of insulation, but not unheard of in winter boots.
    Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Stories of rape and other atrocities at the hands of Russian troops are not unheard of in small towns and suburbs of Kyiv.
    ABC News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The company launched at a time when faith in the banking system was at an all-time low, and digital banks were unheard of.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • One winery sells bottles for $300, which is not unheard of in Napa and Sonoma.
    Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Seventy per cent of them survived—a rate that is unheard of today.
    Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Making the jump to a person was unheard of, but not inconceivable.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The shooting rocked a country with strict firearms laws where gun violence is almost unheard of.
    Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Celebrities taking back their control from the paparazzi isn’t unheard of.
    Vulture, 17 Dec. 2022

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