ADJECTIVE
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previously unknown
a first novel by an unheard of writer
developments on an unheard-of scale
How To Use unheard-of In A Sentence
- According to Hughes, Olsen became an addition to the stable when Komon sold one of his works for the previously unheard-of price of 1000 guineas.
- His early comedies might have been taken to represent an unheard-of civility from the back of beyond.
- It was unusual, in a Servant of Naamah; in an anguissette, unheard-of. Kushiel's Avatar
- Also unheard-of was a cartel cornering a commodity such as crude oil, as long as the medium of exchange was gold.
- That summer, it had itched more often than ever, as the goblins swarmed in unheard-of numbers, and banishing them was one way of putting that itch to rest. Excerpt: Runemarks by Joanne Harris
- Janissaries, and stealing his head, for the purposes of baking, shaving, and roasting it, and that they should be condemned to pay the price of his blood; but as the kabobchi had been the immediate cause of the tumult by treating the head with such gross and unheard-of insult, and as he was a Greek and an infidel, it was further resolved that the Mûfti should issue a _fetwah_, authorizing his head to be cut off: and placed on the same odious spot where he had exposed that of the Aga of the The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
- These are unheard-of results for end-stage patients with very poor prognoses. The FDA and Slower Cures
- One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below.
- developments on an unheard-of scale
- Yet, if you, who first wrote Dialogues of the Dead, could hear the prayer of an epistle wafted to 'lands indiscoverable in the unheard-of West,' you might visit once more a world so worthy of such a mocker, so like the world you knew so well of old. Letters to Dead Authors