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How to use the word unheard-of in a Sentence?

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Yet to execute you … it can be now 8-4? That’s just unheard of, no other state in the country has ever done that other than Florida.

Maria DeLiberato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Taking 75 guns off the street in a weekend in Panama City Beach is unheard of, this was not spring break in any way, shape or form.

Mayor Sheldon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[Bob] really did take care of everybody. … If you need a doctor, if you need a lawyer, if you need a pastrami sandwich at three in the morning because some girl just broke your heart, Bob was that guy, he loved making people happy. It didn’t matter who you were, your status. … He somehow took his TV family and made them his real family, which is unheard of.

Jeff Ross

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She got everything she wanted, everything, which was unheard of in 1955, she was whip smart, witty, ambitious, strategic and above all, incredibly courageous.

Amy Greene

Found on CNN
2 years ago

An SSBN on the surface is all but unheard of, this may suggest a hull or engineering problem that requires a major shipyard to investigate and fix.

Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No one thought that there were any dinosaurs in Missouri. It's just unheard of to find dinosaur fossils in this part of the country.

Abigail Kern

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everyone expects Michigan to probably win the national championship, it’s like almost like a Duke basketball or Kansas basketball-type thing, having four of the top five kids drafted. That’s unheard of, and I do n’t know if that will ever happen again.

Jack Hughes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is not unheard of or infrequent for the media to discover fraud, but for the media to become part of the fraud -- or part of the story, if you will -- that's less common.

Miriam Baer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s unheard of to do a Major League Baseball game in a town this small, we hope everybody likes the quaintness and the people, we’re very excited, this is history that’s being made.

Tana Guetzko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Insect fossils of this type, preserved in three-dimensions like this, are practically unheard of from the Triassic, so this discovery is very important.

Sam Heads

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've never seen monthly price increases like this in the history of the business, it's unheard of.

Brian McClay

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It brought me to tears, at that particular time, it was a truly a blessing. It was unheard of.

Frank Green

Found on CNN
3 years ago

For a southwestern city which receives 30-50 % of its annual rainfall during its summer monsoons, it is almost unheard of to avoid any precipitation during the summer months, for context, the longest period Phoenix has observed without rainfall was only 160 consecutive days in 1972.

Pedram Javaheri

Found on CNN
3 years ago

New York City once described as America's crime capital, had become by the mid-1990s, America's safest large city, murders, shootings, and violent crime are increasing at percentages unheard of in the past. We're seeing the return of rioting and looting.

Maegan VazquezPolice reformRudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You only have to go [ back ] to the'70s when there was last real currency crisis, it's certainly not unheard of.

Thomas Pugh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Many trans people are always willing to educate people and answer questions about being trans as well, i understand that it can be hard to keep up with these changes, especially for people who grew up in a time or a place where being transgender was unheard of, but it's never too late to educate yourself on the subject and change your mistakes.

Lazarus Gates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When God anoints you, people will see it. When He appoints you, others will know it and when He uplifts you, the world will hear it. Because He is able to do what is unheard of.

Gift Gugu Mona

added by Gift Gugu Mona
4 years ago

Around the early 19th century, men took on this special role as providers and protectors, and with that came a whole ideology. Men began to embrace a masculine identity that was based on not doing women's work, women also began to embrace a new identity, unheard of in colonial days : We are the family expert. We know how to raise kids. We know how to change diapers. Institutions began to be organized around this idea.

Stephanie Coontz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Apollo honoring The Temptations - phew! Unheard of. But I'm loving it, because this is our home.

Otis Williams

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But the fact that it was coming down in 1,000 places, it was unheard of.

Kevin McKay

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What will happen next Sunday is Centre Court will be packed for the men's final and I'm sure people will be able to follow World Cup final, it's not unheard of for there to be a ripple of applause or a shout when something special happens in a football tournament, and I'm sure everybody will understand if it does.

Richard Lewis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Promoting hate and division and actually attacking the administration or anybody who's involved with this administration. That's unheard-of. She should be put behind bars and throw away the key.

Actor Antonio Sabato

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A 63 on Sunday, he had a few putts at 62 I know he wishes he could get back, but 63 on a Sunday at a U.S. Open is absurd, it's unheard of. It's a fantastic round, and I don't think anybody was surprised, any Tour player was surprised that Tommy Fleetwood did it.

Jordan Spieth

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Pensions like these are unheard of in the private sector — and deserve the close scrutiny of taxpayers, the long list of six-figure pensioners in the New York City Employees’ Retirement System shows just how great a burden the city has placed on its finances.

Tim Hoefer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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