How to Use unexplained in a Sentence

unexplained

adjective
  • Note, too, the unexplained set of antlers strapped to the roof of his car.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
  • This leaves some of the most alarming blunders of the day unexplained.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Here are some of the most likely reasons for unexplained weight gain, and how to stop it in its tracks.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Do your best to avoid close, skin-to-skin contact with any person with a new and unexplained rash.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Strange, unexplained things have been known to happen there.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • No detail is too trivial to go unexplained by the stars.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Werewolf by Night might have just added another one to the list of unexplained weapons on Earth.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The illness, still unexplained, sometimes slows her to this day.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
  • In fact, only 1% to 2% of the unexplained deaths had no unsafe sleep factors.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
  • But for some as yet unexplained reason, children appear to be spared the worst of the disease.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The report shed light on what had been a surprise and unexplained firing.
    — Ryan J. Foley, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • At this stage, the death is being treated as unexplained.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • In May 1993 an unexplained pulmonary illness killed a young Navajo man in the U.S.
    — Alberto Lucas LÓpez, National Geographic, 17 June 2021
  • The relevance of the question went unexplained by Leach.
    — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 4 Dec. 2021
  • The trial scene implodes, first as the clans squabble among themselves, and then as an unexplained fire breaks out and engulfs the room.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Our father’s long unexplained absences, the fights between him and our mom.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The others were either killed in crossfire, or their deaths are so far unexplained.
    — Byreuters, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Since the story first picks up in the middle of the Sick, many details about its origin were left unexplained — until now.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
  • That left the question of where these unexplained cases were coming from.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 30 June 2020
  • The other two deaths remain unexplained: Buster's classmate Stephen Smith died in a hit and run that has never been solved.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • There were no furtive phone calls or unexplained absences.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Set out cardboard cutouts of Armas on the lawn, for unexplained reasons.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 4 July 2020
  • The first unexplained cases, which was fatal, occurred in an adult in Kansas in March.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022
  • The death is being treated as unexplained at this time, but is not thought to be suspicious.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2020
  • But we are supposed to believe that his unexplained sole dissent in the Trump records case must be corrupt.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In June 2016, just two months after Makenzie was born, she was treated in the ER for unexplained choking.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The school’s first choice was hired but resigned days later for still-unexplained reasons.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • What drives their bizarre array of symptoms is, as yet, unexplained.
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Other animals, dead and alive, and unexplained human bones also were found at the property.
    — Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • People who were in the pediatric unit should monitor themselves for 21 days after their exposure for symptoms, including a fever and a new or unexplained skin rash.
    — Kansas City Star, 7 July 2025

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