How to Use unanticipated in a Sentence

unanticipated

adjective

• The new policy has had some unanticipated side effects.
• 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
• Many of the acts moved the audience in unanticipated ways.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An unanticipated finding, across all three surveys, was the outsized toll on young adults.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020
• In the Age of the Inconceivable, when huge and unanticipated events like the pandemic have become the norm, any outlook may change quickly.
  — Reid Hoffman, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• People were telling start-up founders that S.B. 1047 was going to send them to prison if their model caused any unanticipated harm, which was completely false and made up.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
• The episode itself may have been unanticipated, but the real surprise comes at the end in a time jump when Bluey, now a full-grown adult, visits her parents who still live at her childhood home.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
• There are few actors who can better convey the awkwardness, the messiness and the unanticipated joy of being alive.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Then, in the spring of 2019, his pursuit took on unanticipated urgency.
  — Madeline Drexler, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
• Some say that distinction and its potential consequences was unanticipated when the guardrails were crafted seven years ago.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024