How to Use unplanned in a Sentence

unplanned

adjective
  • Keep at least half of the trip unplanned.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2026
  • The clue pairs in this grid that seem too clever to be unplanned start here.
    — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2025
  • All the while, there is no unplanned downtime.
    — Eric Herzog, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • That is how small, unplanned spending starts to add up.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Make two batches and freeze one for unplanned nights ahead.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Make two batches and freeze one for unplanned nights ahead.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
  • But there were all these unplanned moments, too.
    — Charlie Markbreiter, Them., 21 Oct. 2025
  • Avoid a gaggle of small, same-size pots, which will look busy and unplanned.
    — Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 11 May 2018
  • Looking back, all this was unplanned.
    — Daniel Coyle, Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • So much of this project has been like that, full of unplanned surprises.
    — Blair R. Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Countless lives were changed that night, sometimes in unplanned ways.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike reserve funds, they are used for unplanned costs.
    — Liz Christy, CBS News, 7 May 2026
  • Try to have some money set aside to pay for the unplanned expenses that crop up.
    — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Not much time remains for anything unplanned.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Big moments, small moments, planned and unplanned ones.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 9 Dec. 2025
  • His unplanned stay in the town begins when the police pull him over on the highway.
    — Amir-Hussein Radjy, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
  • All of it a surprise, unplanned and yet not a single complaint.
    — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
  • For Lund, that meant his book went in an unplanned direction.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2021
  • As the crowd was dying down, a few of us decided to take an unplanned spin on the bikes.
    — Curbed, 12 May 2023
  • These unplanned excursions are part of the magic of road trips.
    — Allie Volpe, Vox, 4 Aug. 2024
  • There's been no word on whether or not this unplanned hiatus will affect the return date.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 11 Oct. 2017
  • And that’s when the pregnancy stick flagged the next unplanned chapter of their lives.
    — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 11 July 2018
  • Wunnava explained that she was not told about the unplanned trip.
    — Cheryl Fiandaca, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Still, the unplanned stunt could have posed a serious danger.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Sometimes, the things that are unplanned are the most beautiful.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Those will be the pieces that will be life-savers if anything goes unplanned with the weather or something else.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 13 May 2024
  • During the unplanned break, the boss drove by, saw the idle machinery, and fired all of them on the spot.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
  • This person is out of the office because of unplanned absences a lot.
    — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • An unplanned idea Windstar is not the first to offer a mystery cruise.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Ansari said that the timing of the union announcement and the closure is unplanned.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020

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