How to Use unheard-of in a Sentence

unheard-of

adjective
  • Then came an unheard-of corporate split.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Fighting off paramedics was not unheard-of with trauma victims.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
  • Capital spend is at an unheard-of level.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The damage forced an almost unheard-of response from the grain trade itself.
    — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • He was given an unheard-of seven-year contract to build the next great Penguins team.
    — Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Viganò took the unheard-of step of calling for Francis to resign.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Electoral inscriptions in the bakery hint that buying votes was not unheard-of.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Not so long ago, Kobayashi tells me, treehouses were almost unheard-of in Japan.
    — Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Ukrainians, in fact, were expending artillery shells at an unheard-of rate.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Apparently, this isn't an unheard-of problem, based on comments on her post.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Though not often, brawls are not unheard-of in Turkish parliament.
    — Reuters, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The world has so many moving parts that extraordinary and even unheard-of things happen all the time.
    — Faye Flam, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
  • 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
  • Riding of deer by the monkeys of Yakushima Island is rare, but not unheard-of.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Not to mention, the stock is currently on an almost unheard-of 15-day winning streak.
    — Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Of the seven Spartans who saw the court, four played the full 40 minutes — an unheard-of stat in this day and age.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In its first season, the operation had an unheard-of 90 percent fly rate.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The darling of the screen charmed audiences around the globe, but had a tough time making love and romance work with her unheard-of level of stardom.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The trail finally opened in early February, an unheard-of delay, with six inches of ice.
    — Joanna Slater, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Its usual way moves in with a privacy that rips out plantings ragged and diseased a leap exhilarating away in unheard-of petals.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 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
  • His direct criticism of the military was unheard-of in Pakistan.
    — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The result is more voluminous lashes that are long-wearing and dramatic—at an unheard-of $5 price point.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Again, all this is just research, and for all of it to work well starting this spring would be a legitimately unheard-of technical achievement.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 5 May 2024
  • Milei’s agenda of deregulation and free markets was unheard-of in deeply statist Argentina.
    — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025

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