How to Use sight unseen in a Sentence

sight unseen

adverb
  • Even sight unseen, there’s a lot this project has going for it.
    — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Jackson bought it sight unseen.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That’s right, there might still be love to be found in the show about finding love sight unseen.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Beware of rescue groups that ask you to adopt online or sight unseen.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • Allen Kovac wanted to sign the band based on the demos, sight unseen.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Cole bought the Dovecote Café, where the pair sit, sight unseen.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2021
  • The videos explained how to bid online for the contents, sight unseen.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • Purchasing a car, sight unseen, from a stranger might not seem risky for some buyers.
    — Carroll Lachnit, Edmunds, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
  • Teng, who is from Taiwan, had never been to the state and went there sight unseen.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The premise of the show was to take 50 musicians and build six groups, sight unseen.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Sure, these four titles would have altered the race, but sight unseen, do any of those seem like game changers?
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • That was the hope with Victor Oladipo, who remains sight unseen.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Sometimes, buyers don’t have a chance to make an offer before a home is snapped up, sight unseen.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • But getting buyers to commit to a preorder sight unseen?
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
  • Season 5 brings the pods to Houston as a new group of singles try to fall in love sight unseen.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And so the couple decided to move to the Dallas area — sight unseen — and build their dream home.
    — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Geoff Petrie drafted with the first-ever pick, sight unseen, by the franchise.
    — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The company uses its loans to buy homes sight unseen, makes improvements and then flips them for a small profit.
    — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 13 June 2018
  • Kagan was sure about Eitel at the start and hired him sight unseen, during an online call.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Yes, a lot of money today already moves digitally, sight unseen, with the press of a button or swipe of a card.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2021
  • There are some buyers, especially in the high-end market, that are still buying sight unseen and go off of the photos.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • There are some buyers, especially in the high-end market, that are still buying sight unseen and go off of the photos.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Larry Hoover has bought a lot of cars — sight unseen — off the internet over the years and never had a major problem.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • This annoys his wife, who hankers after Bingley (sight unseen) as a future son-in-law.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Given that the pair just tied the knot sight unseen, Dom grilled Mack further on his decision-making skills.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023
  • So Martin cast a wide net across San Diego and started applying for rental homes, all sight unseen.
    — R.j. Rico, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Their first dog, River, a lab-border collie mix who is now 4, was adopted from Texas, sight unseen.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • The episodes typically consist of couples falling in love sight unseen in the pods and getting engaged behind a screen.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Buyers were making phone calls, buyers were buying properties, sight unseen, to get out of the Bay Area.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Larry Hoover has bought a lot of cars — sight unseen — off the eBay auction website over the years and never had a major problem.
    — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021

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