How to Use unobserved in a Sentence

unobserved

adjective
  • Normal things that went unobserved by the rest of our rowdy crew of five would be a source of angst for him.
    Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
  • Nose-pickers and gossipers could do their business in the aisles unobserved.
    Justin Papp, Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Gray said the rocket’s collision with the moon will likely go unobserved from Earth.
    Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • However, back then the planet pair would have been very low in the west during bright twilight and was likely unobserved.
    Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Dec. 2020
  • And then there’s the not-so-small matter of inactive, which also often means unobserved.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • His father taught Koranic chant there, so in his spare time Ibrahim would do the same, unobserved in some corner, muttering over the holy book.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Daniel Boone National Forest goes unobserved, Sharp, 27, is okay with that.
    Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Why that matters: A drone brings Ring surveillance inside the home and leaves almost no corner unobserved.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Police believe the woman chatted to the guard to distract him so that the man, unobserved, could cut the painting out of its frame, possibly using a box cutter.
    Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Something more and less and yet still the same because sometimes there is no difference between the subject observed and the subject unobserved.
    Jeff Vandermeer, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
  • Both like to attend early-morning spin classes at Flywheel, a nearby studio, where the room goes dark when the class starts — the better to pedal unobserved.
    Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • Both like to attend early-morning spin classes at Flywheel, a nearby studio, where the room goes dark when the class starts - the better to pedal unobserved.
    Paul Schwartzman and Josh Dawsey, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Like flossing, or licking Bolognese sauce from the bottom of a bowl, locking up your bike is a task meant to be experienced alone, unobserved.
    Curbed, 29 July 2022
  • Never ones to let a celestial object go unobserved, astronomers turned to other wavelengths of light to peer behind the dust of our galaxy and into the depths of the Universe.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The government had hoped the bill would slide through Parliament unobserved, but the timing turned it into the centre of a controversy.
    The Economist, 20 Mar. 2021
  • But by the time these conditions are discovered in a patient, the key evolutionary moment when an HSC lost its way has come and gone unobserved.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Despite city and countywide warnings to avoid trick-or-treating this year, Medrano didn’t want the holiday to pass unobserved.
    Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Trojan Horse was a shell for Greek soldiers to enter Troy unobserved and then discarded without value.
    Steve Tengler, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The lawsuit says that after the anesthesiologist and nurse returned from leaving Nguyen unobserved, the doctor found that the teen's lips and face had turned blue and that discoloration was spreading across her body.
    Phil McCausland, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2019
  • These drones recorded hitherto unobserved behaviour on the part of the animals.
    The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The rigorous planning gave way to a more spontaneous approach when capturing the unobserved, private Phil, a world away from his public persona.
    CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The result was that the neo-Nazi terrorists went unobserved, unsuspected and relatively free to continue their killing spree.
    New York Times, 11 July 2018
  • In the latest models of cosmology, these unobserved phenomena make up 95 percent of the universe.
    Kate Larue, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Believing herself to be alone and unobserved, the woman faced the elevator’s mirror, leaned close, and began working intently on her makeup.
    Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The holiday was largely unobserved by major American brands until this year.
    NBC News, 19 June 2020
  • Regardless of its company, the star lasted barely a few million years before exploding as a supernova that went unobserved as most do, Welch said.
    Marcia Dunn, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Regardless of its company, the star lasted barely a few million years before exploding as a supernova that went unobserved as most do, Mr. Welch said.
    Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Additionally, users should clearly understand how their data is being used—and know how to opt out or to remain unobserved in a public space that might contain emotion-sensing agents.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2021
  • However, that doesn’t mean tradition will go unobserved.
    al, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Notably unobserved in major variants of concern or interest, this mutation is found in the C.1.2 variant originating in South Africa.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021

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