How To Use Unknown In A Sentence

For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
Whoever seeks to export such a system has to be aware of the unforeseeable consequences this model can have in an unknown environment.
This is common and in most cases the cause is unknown. The Sun
The cause of arteritis is unknown in many instances, but parasitic invasion and contiguous involvement of vessels in some inflammatory injuries are etiological factors. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.
This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
Our programmes were of the highest order, the voices pure and full without this abominable tremolo which is unknown to a person who knows how to sing correctly and naturally. Sixty Years of California Song
The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
Code Unknown is therefore a movie that requires a considerable investment of attention.
They were reintroduced but for an unknown period only one vessel was available. Times, Sunday Times
From the dark streets of the city, whether lit by a single streetlamp or brazenly flashing neon signs, to the desolate coastline, where Marlowe is first blackjacked by an unknown assailant, there is no safe haven from disorder and danger. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
To our dismay, unknown to us there was a motel only three kilometres down the road.
President Nixon devalues the dollar, journeys to Peking and Moscow; the future remains unknown.
Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
However, for our purposes, we have used a working definition anchored on Haramiyavia, assuming that the unknown intersection between multituberculates and modern mammals is the appropriate break point.
It is unknown to men of noble mind; it does not lead to heaven; on earth it causes disgrace, O Arjuna. THE DICE MAN
Hospital staff were tempted to give a name to the the unknown child.
Local people live in fear of this unknown sex beast.
And in the very act of declaring the First Cause incognizable, you do not permit it to remain unknown. On the Genesis of Species
Uunknown to him, Williams was calling the police and firefighters at the same time.
The television age has transformed the conventions into presentational exercises from which the unknown and unexpected are ruthlessly excised.
I suggested that maybe blindly feeling your way around a pool was similar to exploring unknown places like Marco Polo did.
Obesity and inactivity kill 26,000 Americans a year, making them less lethal than relatively unknown diseases such as nephritis and septicemia.
She waved me off as I set off into the unknown territory of Park Mountain.
The incidence of pancreatitis after endoscopic biopsy of the papilla is unknown.
She does have a few fears, but they are unknown by most everyone because of her toughness.
Whether Terence O'Neill was committed to promoting the sorts of reforms which might have satisfied the Catholic minority is unknown.
Why do goats sing and what can a bee, a mouse, and an unknown furry creature have in common?
If the nominee is an unknown quantity as far as views on issues, then the nominee will likely make ambiguous statements about any issues the Republicans ask. Think Progress » Will: What conservatives truly want are activist judges.
What is it that we don't know here, the unknown unknowns, as some people in Washington might say?
The boy solves his problem in algebra, finding out the unknown quantity by those values which are given him; and can we not also infer something of the _unknown_ from the great panorama that passes unceasingly before us? The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The etiology of asthma is unknown, but it has been linked to occupational exposures, genetics, and environmental factors.
Our new director is still an unknown quantity.
Such verse was unknown in classical Greek but common in Latin and the Celtic and Germanic languages.
The very concept of free speech is unknown to them.
Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
According to first findings, the guard was shot down with eight or nine bullets from a machine gun fired by an unknown number of assailants who had approached him.
There may be a shuffle of preselected leaders, a review of the news footage, and, of course, the rebels may be rounded up to face a fate unknown. Zondra Hughes: Egypt Revolt: This Is Biblical
In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual. See Their Worlds in Their Faces
The worst possible explanation is that some new, previously unknown viral disease has found its way into the burrows and is now taking a grip. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the vast majority of the unknown number of illegal migrants living in Britain are overstayers; that is people who entered Britain legally as visitors, to work, or as students, and failed to go home again.
Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country.
Mankind is constantly striving to expand his horizons, to push back the boundaries of the unknown, and to challenge himself further and further.
In his biography Alec Guinness: The Unknown, Garry O'Connor reveals that Guinness was arrested and fined 10 guineas for a homosexual act in a public lavatory in Liverpool in 1946.
The provenance of the paintings is unknown.
Yes, some will even begin to realize that they too are all changelings lost among the dark hollows of this bright earth, their deeper selves unknown, asleep.
A previously unknown extremist group has said it carried out Friday's bomb attack.
Private collectors often reminisce of the days they picked up six bottles of 1982 Le Pin at under €20 a bottle, back then not an inconsiderable amount to pay for a relatively unknown wine. The Remarkable Rise of Le Pin
To celebrate Memorial Day, a great ceremony is always held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington D.
Then there are still the misspellings and unknown words.
The identity of the scrum coach is one key appointment that remains unknown. Times, Sunday Times
The invisible components of civil society, whose extent is largely unknown, consist of those who prefer a personal rather than a ready-made set of values, people who never speak up, and people who admittedly do not want to be bothered.
Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia? Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
The crowd cheered on the unknown Tunisian, hoping for a fairy-tale ending to the race.
Then an unknown Samaritan helped him over a log bridge across a creek, and onto a Jeep ambulance. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Unknown to her, a tall, scraggy man stood in the doorway, watching her.
According to some, the depiction of Lord Shiva, by an unknown artist, was about 200 years old.
Everyone is afraid of death, but those suffering from thanatophobia are afraid of the unknown," Ponomaryov explains. Pravda.Ru
In addition, those who make false claims usually say the assailant was unknown to them. Christianity Today
There is also analysis, opinion, portfolios of unknown artists or translated items from the Internet.
A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.
The Internet has opened up a marketplace where sellers and buyers are virtually unknown to each other.
Fear of the unknown is the only villain, and we see remarkably little of that. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
Most of the drawings, etchings and aquatints that convey his bitter contempt and passionate despair for what the artist saw as a Spanish hell on earth remained unknown to the public until after his death.
Most of their page is given over to explaining hitherto-unknown Alternate Facts about book design, typography, and printing.
Too many people, second floor, only one obvious ingress and egress, and walking into an unknown situation. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
Ultimately, the only recognition Railton received was to see the bloodstained Union Jack he had used as a pall for temporary burials lowered over the coffin of the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey.
Mere amateurs in 2009 will make ornithological history in China by discovering birds unknown to science.
The novel starts when a child of unknown parentage is left at the house of the local priest.
It became convenient to account for shifts in Freud's work by focusing on his early reliance on drawing and to cite the influence of painters from northern Europe such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Albrecht Dürer, or even to suggest a false comparison with the Neue Sachlichkeit painters active in Germany in the 1920s but unknown to the young Freud and overlook others as relevant as Paul Cézanne and Chaim Soutine. Lucian Freud obituary
She has a remarkable likeness to an unknown figure who appears in his recurrent dreams, a fact that Paul takes as some sort of omen.
No safe wading in an unknown water.
We are fascinated by the idea of premonition, oracles and anything that would allow a sneak peak at the unknown. Buzzine » Joe Manganiello Interview
An unknown actor was penciled in to play the leading role.
The majority of pop musicians are completely unknown, which makes them bitter. Times, Sunday Times
‘It all leads to the same place - fear of the unknown, fear of letting go, facing your own death,’ she has confessed.
His whereabouts were quite unknown during this period.
Winning the Kentucky Derby is always special, particularly in the prism of the present time, when a horse catapults from unknown to Triple Crown threat based on the win. Secretariat: real-life footage is going to be awfully hard to beat
Juveniles have no need to move because they are oxygen requirements are unknown for this group of organisms and circulation is limited to the movement of fluid through the large pseudocoel. Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
The baby disappears into the unknown vastness behind the handkerchief and to her, her reappearance is a thrilling experience. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
In truth, how she died was unknown, a secret that remained with her family.
And it was not unknown for a peevish north-easter to blow in off the Wash from March to the end of June. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
Immunization during pregnancy is contraindicated because the effects on the fetus are unknown.
The reason for this is truly mystifying as she never missed an opportunity to work with both famous and unknown singers and orchestras.
The reason why children with AGS may be prone to fractures is unknown, although several factors may include: abnormally-shaped bones due to the defect in JAG1, poor calcium intake and/or calcium malabsorption and decreased physical activity. Skeletal Problems and Alagille Syndrome
The biosensor is then used for the determination of unknown glucose solutions. Archive 2004-12-01
It is also unknown whether all patients with clinical symptoms or only those with diffuse scintigraphic uptake have a localized low tibial bone mineral density.
The remaining cases included asphyxia, aspiration, sepsis, and unknown cause.
Fossils of a previously unknown species, which is believed to have belonged to the herbivorous sauropod diplodocus family, were found along the banks of a tributary of the Amazon river in the northern state of Maranhao.
They are usually painted by nonacademic artists and unknown painters.
The altar-pieces to which all this series of _predelle_ belong are unknown. Luca Signorelli
The girl looked at her surroundings and became aware for the first time that around her were dead birds of unknown species, naked of their feathers.
In algebra the sign x usually denotes an unknown quantity.
This is a definite unknown and will continue to influence the share price. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, the numerous business concerns catering to the hobbyist have a tremendous but unknown dollar value.
This drug was practically unknown in Britain.
His whereabouts are / is still unknown.
While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant.
At that time, street heroin use was virtually unknown in Australia.
This year there are very few ‘names’ and a lot of unknown artists.
The county's drought will last for days, said the local water company. It is unknown when water supplies will resume.
The unknown sport of curling grips the nation as the British woman win the gold medal with the very last stone.
Blind image restoration is to recover the original image form the observed degraded image with unknown the Point Spread Function (PSF).
Mr Rumsfeld is the man who, in February 2002, used the phrase "unknown unknowns" to describe the main dangers in any possible confrontation with Iraq. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
The association between chronic hepatitis C virus infection and hepatocellular carcinoma has been described, although the exact oncogenic mechanism is unknown.
Carson played many recurring characters, including Carnac the Magnificent, a mystic from the East who could "divine" unknown answers to unseen questions, which were hidden in a sealed envelope which Carnac held to his head. Our Favorite Johnny Carson Moments
The career path that sees the poacher turn into a gamekeeper is not unknown. Times, Sunday Times
For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
It was a significant archaeological enterprise advancing into unknown territory in the small towns of Roman Britain.
Some say that is precisely what it is - a huge pyramid built perhaps 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilisation. Times, Sunday Times
Life can be likened to a journey with an unknown destination.
His most important contributions were methods of elimination to produce from a set of simultaneous equations, a single resultant equation in one of the unknowns.
The movie transformed her almost overnight from an unknown schoolgirl into a megastar.
The character of the field man's work was fundamentally altered in ways unknown to younger staff.
We all fear the unknown and we all have preconceived ideas of what other places are like. Times, Sunday Times
Photographer Unknown . Spider - like mountain climber executes a Tyrolean traverse between spires in the Italian Dolomites.
For her latest film she deliberately chose a cast of unknowns.
The etiology of preeclampsia is unknown, but widespread pathologic changes can result in pulmonary edema, oliguria, seizures, thrombocytopenia, and abnormal liver enzymes.
Imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown.
This stuff is anecdotical compared to his, how you say, "known unknowns". Whoops! McCain Accidentally Reveals Flaw In Attack On Obama Over Iran
Edgar Zilsel has pointed out that the term ingenium as characterizing extraordinary inborn talent was unknown in the Middle Ages (Zilsel, pp. 251ff.). MUSICAL GENIUS
Before their pioneering research the method by which information was passed down from parent to child was completely unknown.
Apparently there were celestial pyrotechnics on a scale almost-unknown at this latitude.
Unknown to him, she was taking increasingly large quantities of sleeping tablets. Times, Sunday Times
The director took a calculated risk in giving the film's main role to an unknown actor.
All new technologies generate fears of unknown and perhaps unknowable potential harm, but reassurance is demanded nonetheless.
The dad of two was experiencing autophony, one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, an illness that was unknown until 10 years ago. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
I could not understand how someone with so many awards could be unknown to me.
In fact, the elements with atomic numbers 43, 61, and 85 (technetium, promethium, and astatine, respectively) were unknown on earth until some of their radioactive isotopes had been produced synthetically.
We felt we were leaping into the unknown. The Sun
Reports have stated that Scott had taken quite a bit of Laci's jewelry to a jeweler for some unknown reason.
But unknown to Iphigenia, he was no ordinary fisherman, but a sea wizard, one who lived from the flotsam which washed up upon the beaches and shores of the world.
The book begins at our beginning with the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia and why this was such an important discovery – as to whether Lucy is actually female or just simply a male of small stature, remains unknown. “The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory” by J. M Adovasio, Olga Soffer and Jake Page (Smithsonian, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
The outcome of their discussion is still unknown.
He was trying, for some unknown reason, to count the stars.
As an unknown first-time author, to get such a good review was a dream come true.
Traditional retail giants, once threatened by unknown dot.coms with a growing on-line customer base, have now begun flexing their brand muscle in cyberspace.
The subprocessor was linked to the warp core, and was counting down before executing an unknown subprogram. STRANGE NEW WORLDS
One of their answers they did not give forth publicly, but only to us in private -- when they said that the writings of the New Testament had been tampered with by unknown persons who desired to ingraft the Jewish law into the Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
Distilled liquor (including whisky) is unknown in Europe before the 13 th century AD.
The secret of creating genuine lacquer was unknown in England at the time, so the real thing, imported from Asia, remained a perquisite of the very rich.
We are not going to take a great leap into the unknown. The Sun
I don't happen to believe that gender is an immutable, inherent quality: rather, it is a performed series of behaviours, with accompanying emotions and cathexes, with which, for unknown reasons, a handful of people from the "opposite" sex identify. Another human target for conservatives
And the main advantage is that a prospective reader can browse through endless tomes by unknown authors in their own home.
Every perception enters an imaginal file, buds in arrest until swayed by a life-shifting rain or the blight of the news of an unknown person's death.
She is also plagued by bad dreams featuring an unknown woman in a floral dress. Times, Sunday Times
B.when measured, unless the quantum state is an eigenstate of the measured observable A, the system does not possess any categorical property corresponding to A's having a specific value in the set B. Putnam seems to assume that a realist interpretation of (*) should consist in assigning to A some unknown value within B. for which quantum mechanics yields a non-trivial probability. Puppet X: 1
If, again, it is permitted to pretend that the passage has another meaning, and was written as it is from some reason unknown to us, this is no less than a complete subversal of the Bible; for every absurd and evil invention of human perversity could thus, without detriment to Scriptural authority, be defended and fostered. Theologico-Political Treatise
Debrecen were an unknown quantity and they played very defensively, which is their right.
I think your unknown weed may be hairy bittercress Cardamine hirsuta. Winter Weeding « Fairegarden
These crystals, by careful analysis, were shown, first by Hilgenstock, to consist of a form of phosphate of lime hitherto unknown, in which four equivalents of lime were combined with one equivalent of phosphoric acid, and which was therefore called "tetrabasic phosphate. Manures and the principles of manuring
Taking off to places unknown, with your motorcycle for company and a feeling of elation can be a great experience.
When a young and wholly unknown student he had gone to Paris to bring his discovery of fulminic acid to the notice of the Academy. The Story of My Life
The purchaser has accepted the risk of any deviation attributable to factors which were unforeseeable, unknown or incalculable at the time of the forecast.
This year's lineup was surprisingly good, in part because so many of the films came in as relative unknowns.
Thus all of the cultures of the world have stories of unknown beings such as ghosts, goblins, and alien life.
So he was ready to give a cordial welcome to his unknown relation. Wives and Daughters
Our new director is still an unknown quantity.
Go on strike by all means, but don't be surprised if some unknown blackleg wannabe steals your job.
Mr. O'Day, a relatively unknown sidearmer who made it to Anaheim unexpectedly out of spring training in 2008, follows Mr. Rodriguez to the National League and into a wide-open Mets bullpen. In Search of the Next Josh Hamilton
Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race. “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
It is unknown when they were first built but it is generally accepted that they are early Christian and that they were still being constructed up until the twelfth century and possibly later.
This unknown, untried dealmaker applied for and received a 40 - year tax abatement from the City.
His ability to make decisions in a crisis is an unknown quantity.
The protein shares 80.24 % identity in acids with a C 2 - domain protein in Arabidopsis with unknown function.
However, the substrate for desaturation is currently unknown but most likely follows acylation.
She was some kind of a morbid Catholic, because that word succubus was unknown to the profane. Là-bas
The byssus is unknown to us, but the stuffs of Lyons are more valuable. A Philosophical Dictionary
To them, £500 seemed an extraordinary amount of money for a team with no pedigree, a bunch of unknowns that would do little to entice the supporters through the gates at Inverleith.
In that moment, I became absurdly sure that a supernatural force was working upon me, pushing and pulling me toward an unknown fate, a road at whose end stood the slight, cold figure currently bargaining with my father.
Bela Berson (Blume Zabar; Steblov near Kiev 1886 – unknown) came to Vienna in 1905, then went to Chernovtsy; in the years around World War I she was active in Vienna and later in Paris and London, thereafter undertaking guest performance tours in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Yiddish Theater in Vienna.
Ancient vases and carvings tell the story of the war, but whether they are retelling myth or history remains unknown.
It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
These times of change are often stressful because change involves leaving familiar things behind and facing the unknown. Good Habits, Bad Habits
He was an unknown player who wasn't seeded.
But what alternative is there if you are unknown to a potential employer?
European ships and the people they carried brought previously unknown diseases to the Americas and the Pacific.
After his family moved from a home close to Parkhead to a flat near Ibrox, Dalglish befriended a young Rangers player called Alex Miller and it was not unknown for him to skive off school in order to hang around the club before cadging favours from a senior pro. Kenny Dalglish expects respect but no free ride from Sir Alex Ferguson
We use x as the symbol for an unknown quantity.
The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism.
Sometime before the Wright brothers' momentous flights of December 17, 1903, Quick began construction of a heavier-than-air flying machine of unknown configuration.
Magnificence there was, with some rude attempt at taste; but of comfort there was little, and, being unknown, it was unmissed. Ivanhoe
A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.
And despite these proofs of his skill, Albric would have considered it sheerest folly to attack three armsmen of unknown quality alone, for no reason. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
Gaudichaud [918] exhibited before the French Institute, bearing on the same branch two distinct kinds of apples, one a _reinette rouge_, and the other like a _reinette canada jaunâtre_: this double-bearing variety can be propagated by grafts, and continues to produce both kinds; its origin is unknown. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
Large doses of lead and other heavy metals were known to disrupt mental faculties, but the effects of low-level exposure were unknown.
And I know what it feels like to want quietly and graspingly for unknown things.
This is a definite unknown and will continue to influence the share price. Times, Sunday Times
He lived well, helping the poor, and all other people; he died penniless and unknown.
Whether it was anaphylactic shock from a unique allergy or asphyxiation from catching the peanuts in the throat, this is unknown.
Gold was totally unknown to their civilization.
How the creature does this is unknown, but Mark Fricker of Oxford University, who is one of Dr Tero's colleagues, speculates that the forces generated by protoplasm pulsating back-and-forth through the multinuclear cell are interpreted and used to determine which routes to reinforce, and which connections to trim. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Others are known, and no doubt still more remain unknown.
Since metastases of unknown origins are usually poorly differentiated the sensitivity of testing with these antibodies would also be reduced.
a thin watery green soup and now and again sweet potato tops, a bit of cabbage or other “unknown” vegetables. The Story of the Taiwan POW's
Read in studio Stone circles like Stonehenge attract thousands of visitors each year drawn by the excitement of the ancient and unknown.
Much of that cash goes to newbie computer-program creators and unknown artists.
The amount of the consumptions of the mines that are worked is also unknown; but it is known that the gunpowder costs the operators $9 an aroba [of 25 pounds], of lead, $12 Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

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