How to Use unscheduled in a Sentence

unscheduled

adjective
  • The first round was unscheduled, and to call it a fight would at this point be off the mark.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The unscheduled flight had just been added to the flight plan the previous Friday.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Hamlin had to make an unscheduled pit stop to remove the tape.
    Jenna Fryer, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • This would follow the unscheduled 40-basis point hike in May.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 7 June 2022
  • The Tesla arrived a bit later, thanks to the unscheduled stop, but had more than a quarter of its battery left.
    Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • But Milton says the aim is to reveal the battery before the end of this year at an as-yet unscheduled event called Nikola World.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 14 June 2020
  • Dozens of drivers were forced to take an unscheduled detour.
    Nashelly Chavez, sacbee, 17 Mar. 2018
  • So if your host makes an unscheduled visit to your quarters — gotcha!
    Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Like any coach, Pastner fretted over how his team would respond to an unscheduled break in the middle of the season.
    Paul Newberry, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
  • And of course, Musk himself couldn’t resist the urge to make an unscheduled appearance.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 23 July 2018
  • If not for the unscheduled presence of both doctors in the emergency room that day, Caleb’s outcome may have been far worse.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Boston was the second of two unscheduled stops the Japanese plane made.
    Patrick McGeehan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • In New York, parole officers will often make unscheduled visits to the home to see that a parolee is there by 9 at night.
    Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Now, eight working hours is an entire third of each day, so some of your unscheduled crying time is bound to fall in that window.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The president made an unscheduled stop for ice cream after his speech.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 28 May 2021
  • Trains are frequently rerouted or forced to make unscheduled stops to avoid shelling.
    Isabel Coles, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Ashleigh is in the remake of 1980s movie Valley Girl, but the film is currently unscheduled.
    Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 25 June 2018
  • But shortly after Doe took the first pill she was taken to the hospital for a series of unscheduled tests.
    Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The results of the unscheduled hearing were not entered on the court's docket until Tuesday.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 27 June 2017
  • The snag has led to unscheduled shop visits for dozens of Dreamliners, costing Rolls-Royce more than 220 million pounds in charges last year.
    Bloomberg.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The Capitol had been closed to unscheduled visits because of the pandemic.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Specifically, there are more unscheduled and one-on-one meetings than there used to be.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Diaz was so accustomed to the chaos of the surge that an unscheduled break during a shift of nonstop calls now seemed like a luxury.
    ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The unscheduled test continued for over an hour, until the whole system was disabled by 1:17 AM.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The unscheduled test continued for over an hour, until the whole system was disabled by 1:17 AM.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2017
  • There's an eternal allure to taking off at a whim, unscheduled.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2024
  • When bad weather forced the helicopter to make an unscheduled landing in Portland, O’Keefe booked a $1,400 black car for the three-hour drive from the helipad to the sailboat.
    Will Sommer, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Fans were pleased with Musgraves’ unscheduled appearance at the bar.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Except for an unscheduled stop somewhere in the midwest.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 July 2021
  • Passenger Heath Barnes said the ship was on a detoured path, destined for an unscheduled stop in Freeport, as a result of stormy weather and high winds when fire started.
    Marissa Parra, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024

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