Examples of unusual in a Sentence
It's not unusual for him to stay late at work.
a scene of unusual beauty
She has an unusual name.
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First, get your early holiday shopping on at a market with 25-plus local vendors offering unusual crafts and gifts.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Italian driver Fabio Barone set a new speed record for a quite unusual yet dangerous challenge – driving a race car at the fastest speed on the flight deck of a navy ship.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
In team meetings on Friday mornings, Vrabel used to cover situational football with unusual, and sometimes game-changing, plays that cropped up across the league the previous week.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Such dramatic ejections are more commonly observed in massive clusters and are rarely seen in smaller group environments, making dE01+09 an especially unusual and noteworthy case, the study notes.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Italian driver Fabio Barone set a new speed record for a quite unusual yet dangerous challenge – driving a race car at the fastest speed on the flight deck of a navy ship.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
In team meetings on Friday mornings, Vrabel used to cover situational football with unusual, and sometimes game-changing, plays that cropped up across the league the previous week.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Such dramatic ejections are more commonly observed in massive clusters and are rarely seen in smaller group environments, making dE01+09 an especially unusual and noteworthy case, the study notes.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Unusual.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unusual. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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unusual
adjective
un·usu·al
ˌən-ˈyüzh-(ə-)wəl 
-ˈyü-zhəl
unusually
adverb
-ē
unusualness
noun
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