How to Use unusual in a Sentence

unusual

adjective
  • It's not unusual for him to stay late at work.
  • She has an unusual name.
  • The first thing to note is just how unusual such twin pairs are.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The car was parked around the back, which was unusual.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Frosty nights aren't unusual this time of year.
    — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • From the start, the case was unusual.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • That made the move unusual enough.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • That’s, well, unusual, to say the least.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The blood clots form in unusual places, such as veins that drain blood from the brain.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 6 May 2022
  • Users on the platform loved the pup and his unusual skill.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That has seen the club take some unusual steps in recent months.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Blues was a huge part of my background, which is not unusual.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • All of those jokes and rhymes getting to play out in a song is so unusual.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The price jump Smith saw isn’t unusual.
    — Mike Winters, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Schroeder’s good luck has been unusual on the spit this spring.
    — Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • So, this week’s release of new firmware is unusual, to say the least.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 11 June 2022
  • Here are some of the unusual forces that could shape that market in the next weeks.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • Tcheng said the man had a very high risk of dying, but his case wasn’t unusual.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Dec. 2022
  • And try to come up with something unusual.
    — Steve Baltin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
  • So what is driving this unusual price flip?
    — Collyn Wainwright, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This in itself was not so unusual.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • An event of this sort isn’t unusual for New York.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Might be biased but this seems unusual.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Sadly, this was not an unusual case.
    — Nara Parameswaran, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The Patek Philippe stands out as the most unusual of the bunch.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The result is an unusual savory drink that is light and crisp.
    — Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
  • His name, to begin with, was unusual.
    — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • At first glance Colorado seems like an unusual place to grow wine.
    — Alessandra Amodio, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The species is unusual in that males and females stay with their mothers for life.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • So have a blast and buy some fun with these gag gifts that range from the crude to the unusual and beyond.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022

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