unlooked-for

How To Use unlooked-for In A Sentence

• Could they have seen our merry graduates, when the door was locked for the night, and the venerable wig was thrown aside, jollifying over their supper! could they have heard the peals of laughter caused by the unlooked-for success of the frolic, how would their cheeks have been covered with blushes! Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
• The cart is an unlooked-for chance—we ought to take it and go… but that would leave these two old fellows to raise the alarm. The Mistaken Wife
• a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy
• But the running, the running has stayed with me: The lovely, unlooked-for side effect of fear. Runners
• His left hand moved feebly at his side, as if fending off the unexpected sorrow and unlooked-for guilt. THE LAST RAVEN
• Those who accompanied the Southern army on this arduous march will recall the dismayed expression of the emaciated faces at this unlooked-for calamity; and no face wore a heavier shadow than that of General Lee. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
• I have been waiting up here like Simeon Stylites on his pillar, and counting every day, and conjecturing each step taken by our friend towards the coast, wishing and praying that no sickness might lay him up, no accident befall him, and no unlooked-for combinations of circumstances render his kind intentions vain or fruitless. How I Found Livingstone
• Sir Patrick said his knighthood – announced in the New Year Honours List – had been “an unlooked-for honour”. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Patrick Stewart Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II
• Marjorie to call Millicent down to help; but the child came back with a grave face and the unlooked-for news that Millicent was so ill she could not rise. Chatterbox, 1905.
• (That this mighty maternal figure speaks a Yiddish patois is an unlooked-for bonus.) Hobbes in the Himalayas