How to Use unheard in a Sentence

unheard

adjective
  • Their cries for help were unheard.
  • To do that on the eve of the playoffs is almost unheard of.
    Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That would have been unheard of in the halls of 30 Rock even just a few years ago.
    Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The poem is this: The Fourth of July is now unheard of.
    John Annarino, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • In the very nascent stage of the eVTOL era, those numbers are unheard of.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 May 2021
  • To even film something in black and white is unheard of.
    Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the enterprise space, a go-live in a few days is unheard of.
    Olga Lykova, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Just a few years ago, all of this hubbub was unheard of.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2021
  • It’s also not unheard of for guests to try to poach crew for their own yachts.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Payouts in the one-to-two-million range are not unheard of.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Shah points to supports now in place that were once unheard of in the workplace.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2022
  • While spikes around now aren’t unheard of, the average for the date is about 75 grains.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Two for two is unheard of for any writer, let alone a young one.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Such a sight was uncommon but not unheard of at the time.
    Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • The idea that somebody looked up and nobody came over is unheard of.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • And to have a 94-episode run is almost unheard-of nowadays.
    Yara Shahidi, Glamour, 5 May 2022
  • When Prime launched in 2005, two-day shipping was unheard of.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Those kinds of results are unheard of at an FCS school in the modern era.
    Khari Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The whole idea of small-scale brewing and trying to make a living was unheard of.
    Alice Barlow, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • That was unheard of, at a certain time, in a certain era.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Martin Luther King talked about how a riot is the language of the unheard.
    Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The upcoming wintry mix is rare, but not unheard of for the city.
    Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2021
  • And now, in the spring and summer of 2021, the economy is bouncing back at a rapid pace that’s unheard of.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • To beat 3 grand slam champions on route to her first one is unheard of.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
  • This couple happened to get a 5% rate, which is unheard of.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In the world of TikTok, where trends rise and fall in days, that longevity is almost unheard of.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Set in 1905 in the Empire of Russia, such notions were unheard of.
    Carolina Del Busto, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Prices start at just $50 — which is unheard of for Sam Edelman.
    Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This kind of cold is not unheard of in Arkansas, Hood said.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • For years, the notion that a major union would give the time of day to a Republican politician was unheard of.
    Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025

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