Use unfamiliar in a sentence
Sentences ending with unfamiliar
- No stranger puzzles you so much as the once close friend, with whose thinking and associates you have for years been unfamiliar. [4]
- Before reaching the open country the sculptor had to ride through the whole city, with which he was entirely unfamiliar. [10]
- I determined to go to some sequestered resort where my face was unfamiliar. [9]
- He knew them every one, and yet there was something about them strange and unfamiliar. [4]
- I was like a shipwrecked sailor washed ashore by the waves and surrounded by people whose language is unfamiliar. [10]
- Somehow, she seemed a great distance from him--as one detached and unfamiliar. [11]
Short sentences using unfamiliar
- Neither was unfamiliar to him. [10]
Sentences containing unfamiliar two or more times
- Evidently these two young men were unfamiliar with the dueling ceremonies, though they were not unfamiliar with the sword. [5]
More example sentences with the word unfamiliar in them
- He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
- Who ever wonders what they thought when they saw him come back to Nazareth a celebrity, and looked long at his unfamiliar face to make sure, and then said, "It is Jesus? [5]
- Falsehood and hypocrisy were as unfamiliar to her as fishing is to the sons of the desert. [10]
- With Eumedes he visited the unfamiliar scenes around him, and his newly restored gift of sight presented to him here many things that formerly he would scarcely have noticed, but which now filled him with grateful joy. [10]
- Every step I took was familiar, yet unfamiliar too. [11]
- There were some tolerably expensive toilets there, and in several cases the ladies who wore them had the look of being unfamiliar with that kind of clothes. [5]
- He kept looking to either side of the road for familiar faces, but only saw everywhere the unfamiliar faces of various military men of different branches of the service, who all looked with astonishment at his white hat and green tail coat. [2]
- But presently, when they had come to what the Banner called the "residential district," she was cheered by the sight of the green lawns, the flowerbeds and shrubbery, the mansions of those inhabitants of Hampton unfamiliar with boardinghouses and tenements. [9]
- For some seconds they gazed with frightened eyes at one another's unfamiliar faces and both were perplexed at what they had done and what they were to do next. [2]
- In the intervals the talk wandered into regions unfamiliar to Honora, and she had a sense that her own horizon was being enlarged. [9]
- He had lost the old sense of comradeship, of easy equality; and he had the odd feeling of dealing with a new man, at once familiar and unfamiliar, who had somehow lifted himself out of the everyday element in which they heretofore had met. [9]
- Yet how, in the most unfamiliar places, does one wake suddenly to hear or see some most familiar thing, and learn again that the ways of all people and nations are not, after all, so far apart! [11]
- Napoleon rode up the high ground at Semenovsk, and through the smoke saw ranks of men in uniforms of a color unfamiliar to him. [2]
- The comfort of tears was denied him, but his grief gripped him at the heart, clouded his brain and made hint so irritably sensitive that an unfamiliar voice, though even at a distance, disturbed him and made him angry. [10]
- But history has shown that when he is abroad observing unfamiliar peoples the chances are heavily against him. [5]
- As I was saying, the Bearer's recommendations were all from American tourists; and St. Peter would have admitted him to the fields of the blest on them--I mean if he is as unfamiliar with our people and our ways as I suppose he is. [5]
- Frequently, in Australia, one has cloud-effects of an unfamiliar sort. [5]
- They had an old-fashioned energy which had long been unfamiliar to me. [5]
- The tender sap of youth was in this glowing and alert new world, and, by sudden contrast with the prison walls which he had just left behind, the earth seemed recreated, unfamiliar, compelling and companionable. [11]
- Even the one noticeable building in the place--besides the stately temple of the sungod Turn--the large fortified store-house, presented at this hour an unfamiliar aspect. [10]
- Yet it was not wholly unfamiliar, for it belonged to the days when he courted her, when she seemed to have got nearer to him than in the more intimate relations of married life. [11]
- It was impossible not to experience a shudder as of the approach of the Judgment Day, when the shadows were flung upon the green lawn, and we all stood in the wan light, looking unfamiliar to each other. [4]
- Sometimes day and night there flash before my eyes--my mind's eyes--pictures of you and me in places unfamiliar, landscapes never before seen, activities uncomprehended and unknown, bright, alluring glimpses of some second being, some possible, maybe never-to-be-realised future, alas! [11]
- No amount of money could have purchased for us, in a strange vessel and among unfamiliar faces, the perfect satisfaction and the sense of being at home again which we experienced when we stepped on board the "Quaker City,"--our own ship--after this wearisome pilgrimage. [5]
- Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. [2]
- We want to love them, and we love, remember, and are glad to meet them again, but they feel that we are unfamiliar, and, because we have grown different outwardly, they seem to miss some chord that used to ring. [11]
- I care as little for the aged scholar as I do for his legion of commentaries and books, though they are not wholly unfamiliar to me. [10]
- There is nothing like the thrill of expectation over the first throw in unfamiliar waters. [4]
- There were many letters to be written and, as she had become unfamiliar with this art, Hannibal faithfully aided her. [10]
- But at last it seemed to me that some of them were taking on a look not wholly unfamiliar to me; there were features that did not seem new.--Can it be so? [6]
- All about you is a bewildering variety of unfamiliar and beautiful trees; one sort wonderfully dense foliage and very dark green--so dark that you notice it at once, notwithstanding there are so many orange trees. [5]
- The old man interested him: he was a wreck out of an unfamiliar life. [11]
- Her glance fell in shame, and she gently continued in that tone of self-compassion which was by no means unfamiliar to the members of her family. [10]
- The porter, listening in perplexity to the unfamiliar Polish accent and not realizing that the interpreter was speaking Russian, did not understand what was being said to him and slipped behind the others. [2]
- In reply to his knock, a man's unfamiliar voice asked who he was, and what he wanted. [10]
- It seemed to her as if she were in the habitation of sleep, and as if phantoms and dreams were floating around her on the unfamiliar noises. [10]
- Instead of replying he sang almost below his breath the words of a song unfamiliar to his companions, though the Indian's eyes showed a flash of understanding. [11]
- The cheery salutation he had ready for her died unborn and he tumbled the pieces of pottery awkwardly on the grass while some unfamiliar, deep-seated emotion, mixed with pity and glad assurance of his power to succor her, held him dumb. [13]
- But even she had seemed powerless to alter his habits.... Powell Street, that happy hunting-ground of my youth, had changed its character, become contracted and unfamiliar, sooty. [9]
- Suddenly, the world had grown unfamiliar to him; he saw it from afar; but his subconscious self involuntarily registered impressions, and he moved mechanically through the ceremonies and duties of the immediate present. [11]
- The man was gazing at the seascape, and his very absorption gave me a sudden and unfamiliar thrill. [9]
- Prodigiously excited, I followed her, fearful that I might be seen by someone who knew me, nor was it until she reached an unfamiliar street that I ventured to overtake her. [9]
- It was his first appeal to a force outside himself, to an active principle unfamiliar to the voluntary working of his nature, and the answer had been immediate and adequate. [11]
- Away down here fifty-five degrees south of the Equator this sea seems to murmur in an unfamiliar tongue--a foreign tongue--tongue bred among the ice-fields of the Antarctic--a murmur with a note of melancholy in it proper to the vast unvisited solitudes it has come from. [5]
- All was so familiar, and yet so amazingly unfamiliar, so silent! [9]
- Charley heard the door open, heard unfamiliar steps, seized his pistol, and, springing up, with his back to the safe, called out loudly to Jo. [11]
- It was growing darker, and, being in unfamiliar surroundings, she hurried on, though she knew well what course to take. [11]
- Through the door came the sounds of Kutuzov's voice, excited and dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. [2]
- He is not, but here where he was is something unfamiliar and hostile, some dreadful, terrifying, and repellent mystery! [2]
- His absorption had been so great that for a moment he was like one who had awakened upon unfamiliar things. [11]
- But it may be, as I have said, that I am among strangers, and sing the glories of a forgotten age to unfamiliar ears, so I will "make even" and stop. [5]
- I lived there awhile, many years ago, but the place, now, had a rather unfamiliar look; so I suppose it has clear outgrown the town which I used to know. [5]
- Suavity, with an attendant mordant wit, and a mastery of tactics unfamiliar to the minds and capacities of Englishmen, made him a great factor in the wide world of haute politique; but it also drew upon him a wealth of secret hatred and outward attention. [11]
- She was musing among those flying perceptions, those nebulous facts of a new life, experienced for the first time; she was now not herself as she had been; another woman was born; and she was feeling carefully along the unfamiliar paths which she must tread. [11]
- You see I am very unfamiliar with the subject, and perhaps I don't present my case clearly, but I--" "No, no-no, no-you state it plain enough, but that cocktail has muddled me a little. [5]
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