How to Use unplanned in a Sentence

unplanned

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• 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
• 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
• Workers in a better frame of mind have 2.5 days worth of unplanned absences a year.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Countless lives were changed that night, sometimes in unplanned ways.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024
• In other words, plan to make a few unplanned purchases.
  — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• But 3-4-5 times a week, a grandparent or aunt or second cousins would pop by unplanned.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• If your pet went on an unplanned walkabout, would your neighbors be able to call you or bring them home?
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 7 Jan. 2023
• About the only unplanned element is the elements, as in the weather.
  — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• Just like with Hicks, Dahmer claimed Toumi's death was unplanned.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 4 Oct. 2022
• Their bodies tell the story of a sudden end, of death unplanned and unarranged for viewing.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• On the day Curry died, many of her other friends all found themselves at the Detroit River unplanned.
  — Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2022
• One of them was given the deposit for a house at a young age, and the other two’s first pregnancies (though welcome) were unplanned.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2022
• Natural-gas supplies, in turn, were to blame for about 27% of unplanned outages.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Avoid the pain of an unplanned breakfast with our easy Breakfast Enchiladas.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 11 Nov. 2023
• But according to the 35-year-old singer-mogul, the moment was completely unplanned.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2023
• Shepard blamed a firewall failure for the three-hour crash, adding that there have been no unplanned disruptions since then.
  — Joseph Menn, Lenny Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022
• The pregnancies were unplanned, her sister said, and Bobbie Lou and her family raised the boys.
  — Ashley Luthern, jsonline.com, 10 Apr. 2023
• While Stepien’s absence was unplanned, there was a rushed pace to the questioning of the witnesses who were there in person.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
• Any number of hard and distressing things might have happened to them because one unplanned thing once did.
  — Grant Hughes, Glamour, 13 July 2022
• The siblings were paying an unplanned visit to their aunt’s house in the District after the power went out at their home in Germantown, Md.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024