How To Use Little-known In A Sentence

The final episode of this hard-hitting series delves into little-known horrors behind history. The Sun
He backed his little-known horses in fierce ante-post bets. The Sun
They also offer a look into little-known innovations, such as precision artillery shells for howitzers developed for the US Army.
We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
We discovered a little-known mountain area near Ohau, and did a walk up the Temple valley which turned out quite exciting.

The techniques of boodling were little-known and regarded with a certain awe by the mid - nineteenth-century public. The Hacker Crackdown
The Aymara were the members of a great but little-known culture of the Americas centered in the ancient city of Tiahuanaco. WN.com - Articles related to Spain Hit by Strike Over Austerity Measures
It is a little-known fact that Laura owned a greyhound at the age of eleven.
Locals run a little-known homestay — where you get to learn about Tai Dam culture and history and join in village life.
So I can imagine there may be some who also feel wary about a little-known process that has been in place for years. Times, Sunday Times
Aiden Tolman a NSW State of Origin 'bolter' LITTLE-KNOWN Melbourne prop Aiden Tolman has emerged as a NSW State of Origin bolter after dismantling the Rhinos in a man-of-the-match performance for the Storm. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The little-known condition causes the body to attack itself and leads to fatigue and joint pain. The Sun
The little-known magnificent wildlands of Nevada are typified in this remote wilderness of rugged canyons and broad desert playas.
The little-known condition causes the body to attack itself and leads to fatigue and joint pain. The Sun
If the review is negative and gives a non-trivial reason of why the paper should not be published e.g., a clever break of a cryptosystem, a little-known fact that makes a study useless, etc., the review should be published instead of the paper. Reviews Should be Published
Smith, a little-known outsider with limited political experience, came from behind to score a surprise victory.
The Olympics can make sporting heroes out of previously little-known athletes.
A little-known singer-songwriter has secured a multi-million pound record deal and television advertising contract.
It is a little-known fact that fashionistas love sweets. Times, Sunday Times
She suffers from a little-known muscle-wasting disease.
In the caption on another photograph, we learn that the tarsier is a "member of a little-known zoological group called Asiatic profimians," prompting us to wonder whether that group, if in favor of "fimians," is anti something. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
This little-known British firm has now gained considerable prestige .
It's a little-known fact that celebrities get twice as many colds. Times, Sunday Times
The novel is built around a little-known historical event.
When this movie was made, Bill Gates was a little-known nebbish.
And it was Hussein, after all, who installed as heir apparent the little-known and unseasoned Abdullah just before he succumbed to cancer.
So this year, World Kitchen, a little-known Rosemont-based company that makes big-name brands such as Pyrex and CorningWare, will release a new "footed" Corelle rice bowl in China, along with about 84 other updated products worldwide. Chicagotribune.com -
Those two seats went to candidates from little-known independent parties.
The novel is built around a little-known historical event.
They were among 29 members of the little-known sect which grabbed the limelight in July last year when members stole a huge cache of powerful weapons from military armories by posing as army officers.
El Gratin's also the little-known site for many power breakfasts, the kind where an element of invisibility is sought that the town's two other power breakfast venues -- Virrey de Mendoza and Villa Montana -- lack. Restaurant in Morelia, Gringo Grub
It's too much of a crapshoot, at least over 18 holes, too great a chance you'll have a couple of little-known players in the final and therefore no real interest.
Iraq also loaded a little-known fungal poison called aflatoxin, which may cause cancer, and it experimented with infectious viruses. His Secret Weapon
The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists. Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works
But the coming man of national Democratic politics, says the Observer, is the little-known boss of The Bronx.
Look out for Glossa, a Spanish label rich in little-known pre-classical and classical music.
For a stint, he was "in the weeds" -- as his ever-changing world of taste laid in the wild -- little-known leaves, weeds, and flowers like Queen Anne's lace, chicory root, and pigweed -- more poetically called lamb's quarters. Rozanne Gold: Chopra and Vongerichten Talk Food
Can you share a little-known fact about yourself? The Sun
When I was in grad school, almost certainly before that cart was created, we had to check our footnotes by grinding through illegible microfilm copies of 100-year-old monographs; by taking the intercampus bus to Berkeley to check on the only copy of a critical edition of certain little-known Medieval MSS west of the Mississippi; by writing a friend in Germany to check with his university research librarian about their copy of that 17th century treatise with marginalia scribbled by Werckmeister; by flying to Washington to buttonhole an old friend working as an assistant at the Library of Congress to see if he could help get me some face time with an important MS that just didn't seem to be available in microfilm; by..... It's the All New Mobile Footnote Check Station!
This little-known but critically lauded sitcom is back for its third series. The Sun
The Olympics can make sporting heroes out of previously little-known athletes.
She's a little-known assemblywoman from the northern part of Nevada.
One, introduced in May, would authorize inspectors with the city Department of Consumer Affairs to enforce a little-known state law that requires businesses to display their names in English.
This little-known British firm has now gained considerable prestige .
Rather, he drew a picture of the opportunities to be presented to the boys in seeing the new land, of what he called the comforts of their snug cabin and of the advantages that must come to all young men in becoming acquainted with the little-known frontiers of their country. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland
Charles is anxious for details of this little-known show but it seems likely that only octogenarians would now recall it.
IT SOUNDS like the testosterone-tinged vision of an investment banker: a little-known upstart buys its most famous rival, three times its size.
The flowing lines and sweeping shapes of a little-known medieval sculptor are enough to tarnish Rodin's reputation.
It has often bought paintings, etchings and photographs by little-known artists that subsequently become considerably more valuable. Times, Sunday Times
We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
It Could Happen to You" (changed from "Cop Gives Waitress $2 Million Tip," the new title surely plays on "It Should Happen to You," George Cukor's lovely, little-known 1954 comedy) is shamelessly old-fashioned: it shouldn't float, but it does. Psst! Want a Good Tip?
HERE is a little-known fact. Times, Sunday Times
What is a little-known fact about you? Times, Sunday Times
Convener of the samiti, Sanjay Dabhade said that though Gaddar is little-known in western Maharashtra, his show is expected to draw huge crowds from the city and rural outskirts. Pune to get a dose of leftist revolutionary ideology with Gaddar
It has often bought paintings, etchings and photographs by little-known artists that subsequently become considerably more valuable. Times, Sunday Times
This little-known story sheds more light on the cultured England boss. The Sun
It covers a little-known subject with style and panache rather than strict historical accuracy.
Long a part of the library's holdings, these produce box labels and seed and nursery catalogs from 1880 to the present are a little-known treasure worth seeking out.
However, there is no doubting his enthusiasm for this little-known genre.
The study resulted in evidence suggesting that a little-known omega-3 called docosahexaenoic acid or DHA may have implications for treating male infertility. Foodconsumer.org
Just hours after putting Northern Rock up for sale, he allowed 14 savers in a little-known bank in Havant, Hampshire to face losses on deposits over and above the £85,000 covered by the guarantee scheme that could run into thousands of pounds. Arabs demand new freedoms but the west offers old economic blueprint
Roderick Attard, a little-known scrum half from Malta who had trials with Gateshead Thunder at the start of this season, has been banned for two years after testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone earlier this year. Josh Charnley recalled by Wigan from Hull KR loan spell
But Toyota, a company that built its reputation with meticulous attention to quality, is now facing a credibility crisis as little-known problems are surfacing with many of its models.
Placing poetry in this particular way — tracing lyric to one of its hidden sources — helps to recover a little-known vernacular tradition, a genre of "lost" poems; yet it also raises, more generally, certain theoretical questions about configurations of place, or placelessness, in language and about the topography of poetic form. Club Monad
The novel is built around a little-known historical event.
Young, confused, and seeking my own voice, I needed not only all the helpful examples I could scrounge up but also a little-known source of readily stealable graphic ideas.
The number of British visitors to this once little-known place has grown tenfold in five years. Times, Sunday Times
This little-known but critically lauded sitcom is back for its third series. The Sun
Obama auto-pens Patriot Act extension into law CBS/AP WASHINGTON - President Obama has taken advantage of a little-known and infrequently used device called an autopen to put his signature on legislation extending the government's post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists for anther four years. Breaking News: CBS News
The principle of sympathetic vibration mentioned above also provides the explanation of that strange and little-known phenomenon called repercussion, by means of which any injury done to, or any mark made upon, the astral body in the course of its wanderings will be reproduced in the physical body. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
Another little-known fact about GATT is that the Agreement is only being applied provisionally and not, definitively, as provided for in the articles of the Agreement. Imperial Preference and GATT
The leader also named his sister a top general, and awarded a high military post to a little-known general believed to have family ties — a bid, analysts say, to surround his twentysomething son with experienced regents. Irish Troubles, Strong Tea, Flash Report
However, a little-known, non-invasive practice called the metamorphic technique can be learned in just a few hours, and is a valuable skill for life.
A little-known factoid shows that roughly 90 percent of all worldwide markets (in population terms) are located outside the United States.
Hard core wave riders are now exploring isolated coral atolls in the South Pacific, little-known archipelagos in the Philippines and the jungle-fringed coastlines of Indonesia for big, uncrowded waves.
Harvestmen do indeed belong to the vast arachnid (or spider) class of creatures, but in a little-known group called opiliones. Times, Sunday Times
But the flightless giants are also genetically similar to a little-known neotropical bird called a tinamou—a grouse-like creature whose short, rounded wings enable somewhat clumsy but swift, flapping flight. Birdology
But by far the most ludicrous begging episode happened in Dundee, where I was menaced by that little-known phenomenon, the pre-teen bike gang.
The debate over these little-known acts was a litmus test of the issues that lie hidden beneath Australia's rapid urbanisation.
Trible himself is a jazz singer little-known outside a small circle of initiates, although his career has included work with the likes of vibist Bobby Hutcherson and saxophonists Pharaoh Sanders and Charles Lloyd.
So this year, World Kitchen, a little-known Rosemont-based company that makes big-name brands such as Pyrex and CorningWare, will release a new "footed" Corelle rice bowl in China, along with about 84 other updated products worldwide. Chicagotribune.com -
The baobab is a traditional food plant in Africa, but is little-known elsewhere. American Chronicle
Personally I'm looking forward to being able to seeing what different civic models emerge once we support those beyond the static "guild" system, and of being able to study a wide variety of phenomena under the little-known umbrella of ekistics in ways that simply cannot be approached in the physical world. Computational Social Science and the Problem With Hakkar’s Blood
The series was interspersed with stories from lives of little-known actors in the tragedy.
It’s the story of a man-eating plant that eventually takes over the world, told in jaunty 1960s-style doo-wop, written by a little-known team called Ashman and Mencken who would eventually fade into obscurity after producing little-known Disney musicals like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. It's Official
Why not do some research, screen some little-known or largely forgotten films (honestly, those are often more intriguing than the ones that took home gazillions at the box office) and tell us something we don't already know?
And then there's the rastafari Prince Lincoln, whose little-known "Humanity" might be the album's best song. NPR Topics: News
Not so long ago Viviana was a little-known actress playing in a provincial theatre - these days she's the toast of New York/the town.
Il Desiderio Preso per la Coda is a little-known jewel near the Piazza Navona.
First, the selection of music brings little-known pieces to our attention: a Bach sonata, and duos and trios of 17th and 18th century origin.
Professor Davis's unorthodox methodology split historians over whether his estimates were plausible but they welcomed any attempt to fill a gap in the little-known story of Africans subjugating Europeans.
The little-known academic came from last place in the polls to win the first round of voting. Times, Sunday Times
Carr recounts the little-known World War II story about the survivors of a tramp steamer sunk in the summer of 1940.
Four hundred million times a year, employees of a little-known company called NCO dial the telephone "just to talk. ScrippsNews
But just a year later, with the economy in tatters, he was booted out of office by a little-known state governor named Bill Clinton.
It is eventually retrieved with the help of a lion and a little-known creature called a bandicoot.
But many of us are keeping our pearly whites white by putting a little-known chemical called triclosan in our mouths. The Sun
Political consultants used to be little-known operatives working in dingy offices trying to elect better-known candidates.
What he found when he visited Djibouti, a small, little-known country on the Horn of Africa, felt eerily familiar.
She has delighted in rendering in delicate detail and exquisite colour the little-known plants and creatures of the desert.
In the process, you might well learn little-known facts about what you ingest (the artist's "posters" about coffee, beer and cheese are popular) and what you believe in (Inman memorably trumpets inventor Nikola Tesla and explains why Thomas Edison's competitive shenanigans were stinkier than a Peterbilt full of body parts). The 'Riffs Interview: 12 Secrets of the insanely viral 'OATMEAL' creator Matthew Inman
Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.
The little-known cast is unlikely to become better known.
One, introduced in May, would authorize inspectors with the city Department of Consumer Affairs to enforce a little-known state law that requires businesses to display their names in English.
It's a fascinating remnant of a little-known corner of history - a shanty sung by black ocean-going sailors, lamenting their unequal pay.
She has a little-known condition called hyperhidrosis, which means that she perspires excessively. The Sun
The two reliquaries are described as containing the relics of the little-known Saint Felician, the third-century bishop of Foligno who was particularly venerated in Umbria, Italy.
We are little-known and therefore little-understood, and this is exacerbated by Pagans who insist on aligning us with mythical broomstick-flying wart-sporting hags.
Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.
One contributor left his job as an aircraft design engineer to travel Europe in a camper van, researching little-known megalithic sites to add to the fast-growing sections on France and Germany.
Although financing these ventures was always trouble-some, Louis was omnivorously curious; he wanted to launch studies of the pygmy chimpanzee as well as such little-known African mammals as the aardvark, zorilla a creature resembling the skunk, and warthog—animals he had watched as a child, but whose behaviors remained little-known. Ancestral Passions
He closes by examining the few films - mostly little-known indies - that he believes portray the city in a fuller, truer fashion.
Or you could hang out in the bar, where engaging young sommelier José Bracamonte offers pisco tastings and advice on Peru's excellent but little-known wines. Debut

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