How to Use unplanned in a Sentence

unplanned

adjective

• During the unplanned break, the boss drove by, saw the idle machinery, and fired all of them on the spot.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
• Smith, now 72, first learned of the Janes as a 21-year-old with an unplanned pregnancy.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• As the crowd was dying down, a few of us decided to take an unplanned spin on the bikes.
  — Curbed, 12 May 2023
• His unplanned stay in the town begins when the police pull him over on the highway.
  — Amir-Hussein Radjy, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• Make two batches and freeze one for unplanned nights ahead.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2024
• The shot where a butterfly lands on her hand was unplanned.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
• On the way home, the collier made a stop (some say unplanned) in Barbados for coal.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
• That was the case for Liz Haberkorn, who had an unplanned home birth with her daughter, Mae, in 2015.
  — Amanda Krupa, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• Try to have some money set aside to pay for the unplanned expenses that crop up.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
• Then the script gave way to something clearly unplanned.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• Workers in a better frame of mind have 2.5 days worth of unplanned absences a year.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Those will be the pieces that will be life-savers if anything goes unplanned with the weather or something else.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 13 May 2024
• All of it a surprise, unplanned and yet not a single complaint.
  — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
• Nearly half of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the US are unplanned.
  — Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• This person is out of the office because of unplanned absences a lot.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• These unplanned excursions are part of the magic of road trips.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 4 Aug. 2024
• But the Winslet-Pearce chemistry has its unplanned tradeoffs.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2021
• One of those unplanned moments is a favorite of the editor’s.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Queen Letizia laughed at their unplanned twin moment and the two women embraced.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022
• Ryan Reynolds and his brother Terry had an unplanned catch-up.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• For Lund, that meant his book went in an unplanned direction.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2021
• Many of O'Neal’s efforts have been unplanned, not to mention out of his own pocket.
  — Brianne Garrett, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• Countless lives were changed that night, sometimes in unplanned ways.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024
• It's not known what plans SpaceX might have in place to rescue the Inspiration4 crew if an abort or unplanned landing should happen.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2021
• As a result, the Coq libraries feel jumbled, like an unplanned city.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
• There is also an unplanned pregnancy in the movie, and the woman decides to keep the baby.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 8 Aug. 2024
• In other words, plan to make a few unplanned purchases.
  — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• Almost all of them were the ones who’d spent their unplanned layover on the plane with the sick passenger rather than in the terminal.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 18 Nov. 2020
• During the design phase, an unplanned open space was introduced, intended to be a place where workers could gather and relax away from desks and cubicles.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
• Experts there said in a statement the impacts of the weekend’s extreme rainfall in Nepal have been exacerbated by rampant development and urbanization, including unplanned construction on floodplains and poor drainage.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024