How to Use unheard in a Sentence

unheard

adjective
  • Their cries for help were unheard.
  • To do that on the eve of the playoffs is almost unheard of.
    Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That would have been unheard of in the halls of 30 Rock even just a few years ago.
    Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The poem is this: The Fourth of July is now unheard of.
    John Annarino, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • To even film something in black and white is unheard of.
    Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the enterprise space, a go-live in a few days is unheard of.
    Olga Lykova, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Just a few years ago, all of this hubbub was unheard of.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Payouts in the one-to-two-million range are not unheard of.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Shah points to supports now in place that were once unheard of in the workplace.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
  • While spikes around now aren’t unheard of, the average for the date is about 75 grains.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Two for two is unheard of for any writer, let alone a young one.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Such a sight was uncommon but not unheard of at the time.
    Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • The idea that somebody looked up and nobody came over is unheard of.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • And to have a 94-episode run is almost unheard-of nowadays.
    Yara Shahidi, Glamour, 5 May 2022
  • When Prime launched in 2005, two-day shipping was unheard of.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Those kinds of results are unheard of at an FCS school in the modern era.
    Khari Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The whole idea of small-scale brewing and trying to make a living was unheard of.
    Alice Barlow, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • That was unheard of, at a certain time, in a certain era.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
  • This couple happened to get a 5% rate, which is unheard of.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In the world of TikTok, where trends rise and fall in days, that longevity is almost unheard of.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Prices start at just $50 — which is unheard of for Sam Edelman.
    Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Smoking weed on top of the building is one of my favorite scenes, but [that’s] not unheard of.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Such an act, as yet unheard-of, would come on top of the voluntary cuts the three states agreed to last summer.
    Nick Bowlin, Outside Online, 4 May 2022
  • And once the show started, some attendees say cries for help went unheard amidst the roar of the music.
    Travis Caldwell and Rosa Flores, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
  • That was unheard of—until El Salvador did just that in June.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Still, Shaughnessy’s access to the team would be unheard of today — just like many of the team’s actions, both on and off the court.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Today, finding so many blue whales so close to shore is unheard of.
    Andrew Chapman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • The persistence of hot and dry conditions is unheard of in parts of the region.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • Joaquin Phoenix would later win the Oscar playing the same role, but Oscars for performances in these movies was unheard of.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The task is so difficult and complex that a reliable forecast more than a couple of days in advance was unheard of just a few decades ago.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024

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