How to Use unobserved in a Sentence

unobserved

adjective
  • And in a place this small, nothing goes unobserved.
    — The Sports Desk, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Normal things that went unobserved by the rest of our rowdy crew of five would be a source of angst for him.
    — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
  • Nose-pickers and gossipers could do their business in the aisles unobserved.
    — Justin Papp, Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The equation says how the wave function evolves over time but only while the system is left unobserved.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Gray said the rocket’s collision with the moon will likely go unobserved from Earth.
    — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • And then there’s the not-so-small matter of inactive, which also often means unobserved.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • However, back then the planet pair would have been very low in the west during bright twilight and was likely unobserved.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Gentle waterfalls feed clear natural pools, all but unobserved.
    — Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Something more and less and yet still the same because sometimes there is no difference between the subject observed and the subject unobserved.
    — Jeff Vandermeer, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
  • These drones recorded hitherto unobserved behaviour on the part of the animals.
    — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Like flossing, or licking Bolognese sauce from the bottom of a bowl, locking up your bike is a task meant to be experienced alone, unobserved.
    — Curbed, 29 July 2022
  • His father taught Koranic chant there, so in his spare time Ibrahim would do the same, unobserved in some corner, muttering over the holy book.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Despite city and countywide warnings to avoid trick-or-treating this year, Medrano didn’t want the holiday to pass unobserved.
    — Dallas News, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Police believe the woman chatted to the guard to distract him so that the man, unobserved, could cut the painting out of its frame, possibly using a box cutter.
    — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The holiday was largely unobserved by major American brands until this year.
    — NBC News, 19 June 2020
  • Both like to attend early-morning spin classes at Flywheel, a nearby studio, where the room goes dark when the class starts — the better to pedal unobserved.
    — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • Both like to attend early-morning spin classes at Flywheel, a nearby studio, where the room goes dark when the class starts - the better to pedal unobserved.
    — Paul Schwartzman and Josh Dawsey, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • The government had hoped the bill would slide through Parliament unobserved, but the timing turned it into the centre of a controversy.
    — The Economist, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Berry runs a number of complex statistical tests demonstrating that these unobserved factors are not likely driving his results.
    — Christopher Ingraham, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Daniel Boone National Forest goes unobserved, Sharp, 27, is okay with that.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Trojan Horse was a shell for Greek soldiers to enter Troy unobserved and then discarded without value.
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Astronomers chose a list of previously unobserved galaxies for Hubble to inspect.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The rigorous planning gave way to a more spontaneous approach when capturing the unobserved, private Phil, a world away from his public persona.
    — CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Never ones to let a celestial object go unobserved, astronomers turned to other wavelengths of light to peer behind the dust of our galaxy and into the depths of the Universe.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Most of that good work, particularly his ongoing involvement at the hospital, goes unobserved.
    — Phil Richards, Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Some related species in the same genus are already on the brink of extinction, with one declared extinct in the wild and another unobserved since 2003.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Believing herself to be alone and unobserved, the woman faced the elevator’s mirror, leaned close, and began working intently on her makeup.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But by the time these conditions are discovered in a patient, the key evolutionary moment when an HSC lost its way has come and gone unobserved.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Additionally, users should clearly understand how their data is being used—and know how to opt out or to remain unobserved in a public space that might contain emotion-sensing agents.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2021
  • In the latest models of cosmology, these unobserved phenomena make up 95 percent of the universe.
    — Kate Larue, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023

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