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US
/ˌənəˈnaʊnst/
]
[ UK /ʌnɐnˈaʊnst/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɐnˈaʊnst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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without warning or announcement
a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night
they arrived unannounced
How To Use unannounced In A Sentence
- I would show up unannounced, watch Jaime teach calculus, chat with Principal Henry Gradillas, check in with other Advanced Placement classes and in the early afternoon call my editor in Washington to say I was chasing down the latest medfly outbreak story, or whatever seemed believable at the time. Unlike many, Escalante believed in teaching, not sorting
- You drop in at a friend's place one evening unannounced.
- Kader Asmal for what it described as his courageous unannounced visit to a Soweto school last week. ANC Daily News Briefing
- I did an unannounced radio silence yesterday: no sending personal e-mail except in emergencies, no reading anything online -- lj, Facebook, comics, news, nothing. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
- If the fish have got used to the sudden onset of winter that arrived unannounced last week, then some good sport can be expected from the roach population of the waters below the city.
- The Texan singer will be supported by two other bands, as yet unannounced.
- Groups singing carols and folk songs to the beat of local musical instruments would arrive unannounced at any time of the night.
- My uncle arrived unannounced yesterday evening.
- She appeared unannounced and took control of the meeting.
- I'm aware that the past week has been the longest unannounced hiatus I've taken from posting since this site started.