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How to use the word unusual in a Sentence? Page #12

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It would be a rather unusual beginning.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These things can burn very quickly and violently ; it would not be unusual for them to explode, we believe it has n’t been a massive explosion ; it’s just been these vapor release valves that popped.

Richard Rennard

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They simply break into small bits as they weather out of the sediment before they are found. The preservation of ours is truly unusual, but a great deal of that may be due to the fact that we were able to locate them while they were still deep underground.

Peter Houde

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It's an un-hopped beer and a unique recipe that we wanted to stay true to, without the hops in there and with these other unusual ingredients, you get a starchy, grainy flavor and aroma with a bit of sourness, almost like an ancient berliner weisse.

Alex Acker

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It’s not unusual for women to have multiple orgasms, so to talk about super orgasms…it’s, in my opinion, a bit misleading.

Cynthia Graham

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It was a very unusual type of agreement. I'm not sure who would be willing to sign that because basically you lose it all.

Fernando Donis

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The peptide described in the Immunity report is somewhat unusual because of the apparent specificity, if further studies show that it has a low level of cytotoxicity and it can protect in other animal models of influenza, it could be developed as a potential treatment for influenza.

Louise Rollins-Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It did n’t seem that unusual, i never thought [ I ’d be ] going in for a stomachache and coming out a totally different person, and [ it’s ] life-changing.

Kevin Breen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think the general consensus is electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment, if they attempt to do that, that's going to engender other challenges.

Jeffrey Rosenzweig

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Unless the prisoner is unconscious, then drugs two and three will cause pain -- torturous punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, and state guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.

Jeffrey Rosenzweig

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Rain is very unusual for us.

Joan Harvey

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s unusual because the victor does n’t usually say there was fraud after an election because usually, the victor will say it was a fair election and that’s why they won.

Neil Levesque

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It literally happened on the last day of the excavation, … right in front of our eyes and those of the excited students, an unusual ceramic vessel c. 18 cm high (7 inches) was exposed, atop of is the image of a person….

Gilad Ilatch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I don’t think it’s necessarily unwise for a business to make a political statement, particularly privately-owned businesses in the fashion sector, said Abby Schreiber, managing editor at Paper Magazine. Fashion has always been about expression, provocation and, not infrequently, politics and, to that end, these designers ’ refusal to dress Melania Trump is not, in and of itself, unusual for this industry. fashion designers have long attempted to tell a story about their brand and vision and to articulate a feeling, emotion or sense of who their customer or ‘ muse ’ is, Schreiber said. And for those designers who are troubled by the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that surrounded Trump’s campaign, it may make sense for them to want to distance their brand and their vision from it. But Robert Casey, President of modeling agency Maggie, Inc., offered a simple solution.

Abby Schreiber

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You’ll remember the day was August 2 — a little unusual to be wearing a wool hat in the area there.

Detectives Robert Boyce

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The impression left is that there’s favoritism involved, and it’s just very unusual in State Department real estate and housing transactions overseas to have this kind of focus on someone with such clear financial connections to even the departed secretary of state. Normally, there’s much more competitive activity involved, [of] which we haven’t seen any evidence from the State Department.

John Bolton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I know that many of my supporters are disappointed, i am too. But our disappointment must be overcome by our love of country. And I say to our fellow members of the world community, let no one see this contest as a sign of American weakness. The strength of American democracy is shown most clearly through the difficulties it can overcome. Some have expressed concern that the unusual nature of this election might hamper the next president in the conduct of his office. I do not believe it need be so. President-elect Bush inherits a nation whose citizens will be ready to assist him in the conduct of his large responsibilities. I, personally, will be at his disposal, and I call on all Americans -- I particularly urge all who stood with us -- to unite behind our next president.

Vice President Al Gore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The completion of prior actions is not unusual in Fund programs and, while their implementation takes time, they need to be met before the board meeting.

Natalia Koliadina

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This legal challenge is incredibly unusual -- I have never heard of this happening before.

John Malcolm

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We've never questioned Uruguay's authority to protect public health, and this case wasn't about broad issues of tobacco policy, the arbitration concerned an important, but unusual, set of facts that called for clarification under international law.

Marc Firestone

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s a cruel and unusual form of torture, and then my daughter goes, ‘Dada!’ and she starts hugging and kissing the screen and waving at him, and he’s not waving back and she doesn’t understand why he’s not waving back. She thinks it’s like FaceTime. And it’s because Daddy’s getting it.

Blake Lively

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We are one of the least expensive places to take classes, and that is because my mother did not try to make money on this but tried to make it available for everybody. today we have the ability to be united, and it’s most unusual for me to be able to experience the different ways you can learn the joys of dance.

Debbie Reynolds

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Today we have the ability to be united, and it’s most unusual for me to be able to experience the different ways you can learn the joys of dance.

Debbie Reynolds

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

As a profession we prescribe too many narcotics for too many patients, barring unusual circumstances, we should be able to get a good handle on patients’ pain after surgery and minimize their opioid use.

Andrew Rokito

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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