How to Use unanticipated in a Sentence

unanticipated

adjective

• The new policy has had some unanticipated side effects.
• How those games laid out, though, was the unanticipated part.
  — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Dozens of those plans are now up in the air, as the public health impacts of the virus present a massive unanticipated expense.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz Africa, 27 June 2020
• But this unanticipated assistance comes at the cost of the fetch rover.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2023
• While the initial shock of the attack has worn off, an unanticipated grief remains that even time can’t seem to shake.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2022
• Have an idea, a link, your own story of unanticipated kindness on the road?
  — National Geographic, 10 Dec. 2019
• Many of the acts moved the audience in unanticipated ways.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
• The abundance of games that have broken in unanticipated ways has primed us for a wild Final Four.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• But the lesson of the genie is that there will always be unanticipated hacks.
  — Bruce Schneier, Wired, 19 Apr. 2021
• This triple-punch has left farmers with an unanticipated milk surplus and no place to store it.
  — Ed Townley For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 8 June 2020
• Due to unanticipated road closures the auto-car couldn’t make it to her and her order would have to be canceled.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• On the plus side, the unanticipated stay helped Rubio etch his name in the record books as the American with the most consecutive days spent in space.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
• My hopes are that the money was spent and that this was just an unanticipated event and maybe these bridges need to be rebuilt in their entirety.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
• And holes in the uppers can alter the way the shoe fits your foot, leading to unanticipated problems over time, Dr. Conenello says.
  — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 27 Oct. 2021
• Through it all, the city has taken the run of curiosities in stride and in some ways embraced the unanticipated attention.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2021
• Making matters worse, the crew had expected the fire to hit the grove the following day, but strong winds and unanticipated growth changed the forecast.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Sep. 2021
• Not one to stay idle, the drummer has filled his unanticipated free time with various projects.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• The Committee on Inmate and Youth Deaths report for last year showed that 26 of the 55 deaths listed were unanticipated.
  — Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2024
• But the details of the sets, such as the embryo cold storage area, that might prompt shoppers to do unanticipated window shopping.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
• It’s the children who push this book forward in unanticipated ways.
  — Jennifer Egan, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• But Love also is well aware that desperate times can lead to the unanticipated.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• In its five years of activism, P.A.I.N. has made immense and unanticipated strides.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• Russia’s response was not unanticipated, and the United States will deal with it.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• And yet his final years made a chart of the sea, and his ports of call were all literal ports, portals of hope, of which Porto Ercole was the final, unanticipated stop.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• This is a daunting and often unanticipated issue and any fixes may take weeks to show.
  — Iman Bashir, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The network that presents the games has been forced to pivot, and the addition of Michael Phelps to its broadcast team turned into a master stroke for unanticipated reasons.
  — David Bauder, ajc, 31 July 2021
• Already the planet has thrown a few unanticipated challenges into the rover’s first Earth year on the Martian surface.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
• The pair agree that Platt’s proposal proved more unanticipated than Galvin’s.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 16 July 2023
• But when unanticipated side effects emerge, resentments between the sisters come to a head.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
• The sudden, unanticipated degradation of Hezbollah has shattered tired, old assumptions that Iran’s most vaunted proxy was untouchable, catching the U.S.—and many others—by surprise, right as the global community was calling for a cease-fire.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024