How to Use unrehearsed in a Sentence

unrehearsed

adjective

• This is a shining moment for him and was very unrehearsed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• One evening, after a few drinks and an unrehearsed jam, Howard and David headed back to their shack and David climbed into bed to get some sleep.
  — Michael Kosser, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• The only unrehearsed moment: after the team had stitched on both hands and DiMeo's new face, his left hand started to change color.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2021
• That left the Brahms symphony unrehearsed until that evening’s show.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2022
• That moment was unrehearsed, said Barnett, who played Bush in Ferraro’s debate prep.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
• The number itself is astounding no matter what, but Tony also notes that the number was done in an unrehearsed single take.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• These lyrics—unrehearsed, sweet, sincere—became the start of a new dad’s musical awakening.
  — Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2022
• Even a moment days in the making, days in the pondering, and days in the feeling, can upend expectations and require fresh, raw, unrehearsed response.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2022
• Most of Lorde’s moves, however, seemed more impulsive and improvised — unrehearsed, as if no one were watching.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
• The cause of this unrehearsed athletic and mental flatulence — field, to clubhouse, to front office — is another matter.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• The short recording of a verse in English, unrehearsed and something of a surprise for Gilberto, launched her to international superstardom, with the album going on to win four Grammys.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 6 June 2023
• In a last-minute, unrehearsed addition, black student organizers wanted to address a letter that had appeared in the school’s newspaper.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 9 Apr. 2018
• An unrehearsed conversation affects the listener very differently from a work of art.
  — Imani Perry, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• The festival, which started in France in 1982, will boast massive groups of musicians delivering unrehearsed performances.
  — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2018
• Shaquille O’Neal was a nonfactor as a host, delivering an awkward monologue and woefully unrehearsed bits that showed why Shaq has largely abandoned his acting career in retirement.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 25 June 2019
• Responding to what seemed like an unrehearsed question from host Geoff Keighley, Mustard appeared genuinely upset that Fortnite players can't play with those on other platforms.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2017
• What should have been a humorous concept — four friends touring the world in search of the ultimate party — was dulled via an incoherent, unceasing and unrehearsed script that even the participants seemed less than interested in presenting.
  — al, 21 Feb. 2023
• The content is completely unrehearsed, just like live improv theater, and the combination of suggestions from the listeners and creative choices from the performers can be totally unpredictable.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2023
• There can be beauty in the deliberately unpolished and unrehearsed, but poorly shot videos of performers standing cold on a New York beach, making vague and portentous gestures to the ocean, were accidentally awkward rather than defiantly rough.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 June 2021
• Play-by-play announcers—of which race callers are foundational—are unwittingly thrust into providing an unrehearsed soundtrack to history, words and emotions that will be replayed endlessly.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 4 June 2018
• But apparently those lines, though eloquently delivered, were unrehearsed.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Feb. 2016
• Her voice is clearly natural, conversational, unrehearsed.
  — Will Tizard, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024