How to Use sight unseen in a Sentence

sight unseen

adverb
  • Cole bought the Dovecote Café, where the pair sit, sight unseen.
    Washington Post, 27 July 2021
  • Edward Collins, one of the four, bought in sight unseen.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Allen Kovac wanted to sign the band based on the demos, sight unseen.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The videos explained how to bid online for the contents, sight unseen.
    Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • Season 5 brings the pods to Houston as a new group of singles try to fall in love sight unseen.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That was the hope with Victor Oladipo, who remains sight unseen.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • And so the couple decided to move to the Dallas area — sight unseen — and build their dream home.
    Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This Utah team, sight unseen with a slew of skill position holes and question marks, can be a factor in the Pac-12 South.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Sure, these four titles would have altered the race, but sight unseen, do any of those seem like game changers?
    Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Beware of rescue groups that ask you to adopt online or sight unseen.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • The number of people buying homes sight unseen has soared.
    New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • These tactics worked: a stunning number of people bought land in the flats sight unseen.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Purchasing a car, sight unseen, from a stranger might not seem risky for some buyers.
    Carroll Lachnit, Edmunds, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
  • Geoff Petrie drafted with the first-ever pick, sight unseen, by the franchise.
    oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Sometimes, buyers don’t have a chance to make an offer before a home is snapped up, sight unseen.
    NBC News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Larry Hoover has bought a lot of cars — sight unseen — off the internet over the years and never had a major problem.
    Ron Hurtibise, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • When the house went on the market in November 2015, Makenna Held made an offer, sight unseen.
    Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Apr. 2018
  • So on a whim, Tempesta buys, sight unseen, a house in her mother’s native Sainte-Colombe, France.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Larry Hoover has bought a lot of cars — sight unseen — off the eBay auction website over the years and never had a major problem.
    Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Given that the pair just tied the knot sight unseen, Dom grilled Mack further on his decision-making skills.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The band played until 10 p.m. Guests could buy a six-pack of beer sight unseen because each of about 50 different kinds of beer was wrapped in brown paper.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • So Martin cast a wide net across San Diego and started applying for rental homes, all sight unseen.
    R.j. Rico, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Their first dog, River, a lab-border collie mix who is now 4, was adopted from Texas, sight unseen.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • But mostly it’s been shown to RED fans who preordered the device sight unseen, as well as a handful of journalists.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2018
  • TVs are a challenge for Amazon, as consumers might be disinclined to buy a TV sight unseen.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The company uses its loans to buy homes sight unseen, makes improvements and then flips them for a small profit.
    Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 13 June 2018
  • Yes, a lot of money today already moves digitally, sight unseen, with the press of a button or swipe of a card.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Or acquired them from China or Saudi Arabia, sight unseen, thinking the city was still a safe place to park a few million.
    Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The expenditure was for more than $2.5 million and trustees approved the waiver, sight unseen.
    Elizabeth Sander, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2023
  • Be wary if a potential tenant wants to rent property sight unseen.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 11 June 2024

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