How to Use unaided in a Sentence

unaided

adjective
  • This world is way too distant and faint to see with the unaided eye.
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
  • There are just two Wolf-Rayet stars that can be seen with the unaided eye over Earth.
    Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Both worlds will make for a stunning pair as seen with unaided eyes.
    National Geographic, 10 June 2020
  • Go outside or to the gym to change your space and enable yourself to take a step back and let ideas come unaided.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Over the next two weeks, the cosmic spectable will be easy to see with the unaided eye if there's clear skies, according to NASA.
    Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2020
  • At the end of the night, he was spotted walking unaided to the team bus flanked by Brown, a few players and assorted staffers.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, the Andromeda Galaxy is the farthest thing away that can be seen with our unaided eyes.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Another 30% are partial eclipses, which are easy to see with the unaided eye.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The finished product can swim unaided for over 36 hours, at more than 1.5 body lengths per minute upstream.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2019
  • He was left unaided again with four minutes to play when Philipp Kurashev drove to the net with any defenders.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Some fear that small donors, unaided, aren’t enough to counteract the power of big donors or dark-money groups.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 10 June 2019
  • And finally—​sophistication: AI-​assisted hacks open the door to complex strategies beyond those that can be devised by the unaided human mind.
    WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Before Starlink, there were about 200 objects in orbit around Earth that could be seen with the unaided eye.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • On the day of the Great American Eclipse, the devil comet may become visible to the unaided eye, astronomers say.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • This booster is great for older kids who aren't quite ready to transition to sitting unaided in the car.
    Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The planets will be easy to see with the unaided eye by looking towards the southwest just after sunset.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Jupiter and Saturn are easily seen with the unaided eye.
    Marisol Chávez, Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
  • From our earthly perspective, the Cassini crash will not be able to be seen with an unaided eye or a telescope.
    Blaine P. Friedlander Jr., Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Seniors felt unaided and upset when their CVS shut down.
    Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • After your eyes adjust, however, the two should be easy to see with the unaided eye, separated by space equal to the width of a full moon.
    Andrew Fazekas, Science, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Astronomers know this from watching the night sky with the Mars rovers, which have cameras about as sensitive as the unaided human eye.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016
  • Most of the time, our unaided intuition would suggest that a small change of density should lead only to a bit more burn.
    Julia Brodsky, Forbes, 29 May 2021
  • August 9 Mid-August will be the best time in the entire year to catch sight of tiny Mercury, the most elusive of all planets visible to the unaided eye.
    Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • If both a camera and your unaided eyes are available to you, then experience the northern lights in both those ways.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 1 June 2024
  • All of these stars are within the faint Centaurus constellation, which can't be seen with the unaided eye.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Located some 1,344 light-years away, the Orion Nebula can be seen by the unaided eye.
    National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2018
  • However, most of the action happens too slowly for our eyes to see unaided.
    Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Neowise is one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 July 2020
  • Dutch kids ride in child seats practically from birth, are on balance bikes by two, and are cycling unaided by four.
    Dan Kois, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Visibly yellowy-orange to look at with the unaided eye, Arcturus in the constellation of Boötes is a mere 37 light-years from us, and easy to find on clear nights in June.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 June 2021

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