Use unnatural in a sentence
Sentences ending with unnatural
- For such a young man, seemingly destined for the inner life of contemplation, to be a soldier seemed almost unnatural. [6]
- This may be very wrong; but it is not unnatural. [6]
- It was almost unnatural. [11]
- The actual transfer to the stage of the drawing-room and its occupants, with the behavior common in well-bred society, would no doubt fail of the intended dramatic effect, and the spectators would declare the representation unnatural. [4]
- That evolution is strange, and to me unaccountable and unnatural. [5]
- It had not seemed unnatural. [11]
- The uncanny feeling possessing him increased; the thing was unnatural. [11]
- It seemed to Honora, so fanciful this day, that its unwonted air of festival was unnatural. [9]
- The rage of his being seemed to stupefy him; he could not resist the sensation of the unnatural. [11]
- When we put him away off in the apse, and set him up for a Goth, and then seat ourselves at a distance, scattered about among the pillars, the whole thing seems to me a trifle unnatural. [4]
More example sentences with the word unnatural in them
- This almost unnatural, yet quiet, intensity had behind it something besides the mere spirit of the sportsman. [11]
- And the same with a king's son; it don't make no difference whether he's a natural one or an unnatural one. [5]
- In spite of will a sort of hopelessness went through me, for I could feel long blades of corn grown up about my couch, an unnatural meadow, springing from the earth floor of my dungeon. [11]
- Doctor Benjamin's conjectures were not unnatural, but quite remote from the actual fact. [6]
- The outer air was perhaps less charged with the unnatural, and with a glance towards the room where death was quartered, they left the hut. [11]
- This heraldry of war was all unnatural in the golden weather and sweet-smelling land. [11]
- He was levying upon the vital forces remaining in him, which, distributed naturally, might cover a year or so, to give him here and now a few moments of unnatural strength for the completion of a hopeless struggle. [11]
- It would be unnatural, nay, suspicious, if she did not sometimes long for the old freedom and her former companions. [10]
- This was not unnatural, for was not I the "chorus to the play"? [11]
- There was something unnatural in her governance of herself now. [11]
- Utter licentiousness, and unnatural crimes, prevail to an astounding extent. [1]
- There was an unnatural brightness in her eyes. [11]
- That death is unkind, cruel, and unnatural, that kills for living. [5]
- And that gesture, too, seemed unnatural to Prince Andrew. [2]
- A voice within told him, that his brother's murder would be branded as a cowardly, unnatural, and unjust deed, and he shuddered at the thought. [10]
- When he came to, he said mournfully: "The unnatural calm to which I have subjected myself has told upon my nerves. [5]
- I ask you to make me happy in a year, but you are free: our engagement shall remain a secret, and should you find that you do not love me, or should you come to love..." said Prince Andrew with an unnatural smile. [2]
- Was it unnatural, therefore, that when George Selby departed, Laura should watch him from the window, with an almost joyful heart as he went down the sunny square? [5]
- The bare trees, the sand, the bricks and roofs of the houses, the green church spire, and the corners of the white house in the distance, all stood out in the transparent air in most delicate outline and with unnatural clearness. [2]
- So this is the meaning of her excited, resolute, unnatural look the day before yesterday, yesterday, and today," thought Sonya. [2]
- Pierre, looking through the doorway beside which he lay, drew in his breath sharply, for it seemed at first as if The Man was an unnatural fancy, and not a thing. [11]
- Even the half-breeds standing by felt a light shock of unnatural excitement. [11]
- He had a sovereign balm for "colds," composed of camomile flowers, boneset, liquorice, pennyroyal and gentian root, which he sold to all comers; and it was not unnatural that a visitor with weak lungs should lodge with him. [11]
- Still, her brave soul bore her up, and she resolved to bear with her friend's unnatural disposition yet a little longer. [5]
- Shall I be so unnatural, as not to give bread to the hungrie, or uncharitable, as not to cover the naked? [4]
- She knew her remarks sounded unnatural, but could not refrain from asking some more questions. [2]
- Senators, magistrates, sheriffs, police, gamblers, horse-stealers, bankers, and broncho-riders all die unnatural deaths at times, but a musician in the West is immune from all except the hand of Fate. [11]
- His figure might perhaps once have been tall and slender, but it was now so bent and shrunk by age, privation and suffering, as to look unnatural and dwarfish, in comparison with the size of his head. [10]
- The unnatural sound passed beyond him as he lay gripping his rifle and fighting for coolness. [13]
- For, behind her outward hardness, there was a sort of justice working, an iron thing, but still not unnatural in her. [11]
- We have lost our way, Hugh--it's all so clandestine, so feverish, so unnatural, so unrelated to life, this existence we're leading. [9]
- I know of nothing so little complimentary to a singer as the audience that patronisingly listens outside a room or window,--not bound by any sense of duty as an audience,--between whom and the artists an unnatural barrier is raised. [11]
- Nor did the new and feverish existence over whose borderland she had been transported seem real, save in certain hours she spent in Ditmar's company, when he made her forget--hers being a temperament to feel the weight of an unnatural secrecy. [9]
- But as he neither tried humbly to conciliate our people nor swore back at them, his unnatural conduct created surprise, and several of the party crawled to him where he lay in the dim light that came through the grating, and examined into his case. [5]
- It was so natural, yet so unnatural, to be thus in touch with the habits of far-off times. [11]
- It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. [2]
- She thought of Natasha and of her own youth, and of how there was something unnatural and dreadful in this impending marriage of Natasha and Prince Andrew. [2]
- I do not mean laziness, which is always discontent; but that serene enjoyment, in which all the natural senses have easy play, and the unnatural ones have a holiday. [4]
- Her unnatural tone made him wince unpleasantly and he replied hastily. [2]
- There was a little too much color in Myrtle's cheeks and a glistening lustre in her eyes that told of unnatural excitement. [6]
- There was a light in her eyes--an unnatural light--of strength and presence of mind. [11]
- But if the Judge continues to put forward the declaration that there is an unholy and unnatural alliance between the Republicans and the National Democrats, I now want to enter my protest against receiving him as an entirely competent witness upon that subject. [7]
- He clutches at it, he tears away the snow, he calls aloud--and his voice has a faraway unnatural sound--"Gaspe Toujours! [11]
- She knew what it was all meant to represent, but it was so pretentiously false and unnatural that she first felt ashamed for the actors and then amused at them. [2]
- Now, all this is very natural if they are all alike guilty in that fraud, and it is very unnatural if any one of them is innocent. [7]
- But Mrs. Falchion's introduction to me occurred in such peculiar circumstances, and the coincidence of your knowing her was so strange, that my interest is not unnatural, I suppose. [11]
- Prince Andrew talked incessantly, arguing now with his father, now with the Swiss tutor Dessalles, and showing an unnatural animation, the cause of which Pierre so well understood. [2]
- His words, uttered in so strange and unnatural a voice, shook their nerves. [11]
- His wild words in delirium might mean nothing, but if they meant anything, and she knew of that anything, she was still a heartless, unnatural woman, as I had once called her. [11]
- The anxiety of her soul lent an unnatural brightness to her eyes; so that more than one enamoured courtier made essay to engage her in conversation, and paid her deferential compliment when the Queen's eyes were not turned her way. [11]
- Sonya began watching her friend still more attentively and noticed that at dinner and all that evening Natasha was in a strange and unnatural state. [2]
- As with everyone, her face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a glass. [2]
- It had followed her down the staircase and into the street, the weird, unnatural music. [11]
- Mademoiselle George, with her bare, fat, dimpled arms, and a red shawl draped over one shoulder, came into the space left vacant for her, and assumed an unnatural pose. [2]
- She insisted that he was a bad man, and that in the duel with Bezukhov, Pierre was right and Dolokhov wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. [2]
- Then Master Langdon had a great many questions to ask, some relating to his new duties, and some, perhaps, implying a degree of curiosity not very unnatural under the circumstances. [6]
- At this distance from the scene and after years of meditation I am convinced that their efforts to induce me to go were merely an unnatural craving for sensation. [11]
- Medicine, in distinction from food, is every unnatural or noxious agent applied for the relief of disease. [3]
- So, for hours, for weeks--it might have been for years--and then he woke, clear and knowing, to "the unnatural, intolerable day"--it was that to him, with Little Hammer in prison. [11]
- It might at first glance seem quixotic, eccentric, but was it unnatural that the prisoner should choose silence as to his origin and home, rather than have his family and friends face the undoubted peril lying before him? [11]
- Jo raised his eyes, red with an unnatural fire, deep with gratitude. [11]
- To my humble entreaty that he would set aside the unnatural and sinful oath which forbade him to enter his parents' house he had turned a deaf ear. [10]
- The powers that emanate from the glittering wonder are as terrible as they are unnatural. [10]
- It seems..." He did not finish, but gave a painfully unnatural smile. [2]
- But the smile did not enhance Vera's beauty as smiles generally do; on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, expression. [2]
- This was of course natural; to have felt otherwise would have been unnatural. [5]
- They boiled, and coughed, and spluttered, and discharged sprays of stringy red fire--of about the consistency of mush, for instance--from ten to fifteen feet into the air, along with a shower of brilliant white sparks--a quaint and unnatural mingling of gouts of blood and snow-flakes! [5]
- There were two confessionals; a great bronze lamp attached to one of the pillars scarcely dispelled the obscurity, but cast an unnatural light upon the gigantic crucifix that hung from a beam in front of the chancel. [4]
- Sometimes, when his colleague was preaching, he observed this kind of inattention; but after all, it was not so very unnatural. [6]
- Natasha felt offended by the hesitation she had noticed in the anteroom, by her father's nervousness, and by the unnatural manner of the princess who--she thought--was making a favor of receiving her, and so everything displeased her. [2]
- To do that, by force of imagination I was obliged like actors on the boards to resolve myself into an unnatural mental state and see all things through the eyes of an assumed character. [5]
- The room shone brilliantly, yet just under the great canopy, over the dais; there were shadows, and they seemed to me, as I stepped under the red velvet, a relief, a sort of hiding-place from innumerable candles and hot unnatural eyes. [11]
- It was not at all unnatural that Irene should have been charmed by Penelope, and that the latter should gradually have established an influence over her. [4]
- The most unnatural articles of diet displace the frugal but nutritious food of unconvulsed periods of existence. [6]
- Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance, to kick with hoofs; it runs to egotism and bloated self-conceit; it runs to a bodiless pretension, to unnatural refining and elevation, which ends in hypocrisy and sensual reaction. [6]
- It was strange and unnatural to see lion eat lion, and we thought maybe they warn't kin. [5]
- His eyes, nose, and mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms and legs always fell into unnatural positions. [2]
- It became tarnished and after a time darkened, but it wrought no change in my unnatural condition. [6]
- Towards evening, with an unnatural strength, he sat up in bed. [11]
- And he died an unnatural death. [4]
- There is always an unnatural calmness about its nap, and an unwholesome gloss, suggestive of a wet brush. [6]
- Besides, it stimulates an unnatural appetite, a liking for the striking, the brilliant, the sensational only; for our selections from current literature are, usually the "plums"; and plums are not a wholesome-diet for anybody. [4]
- If there be a present cause why one can be both made and carried cheaper in money price than the other can be made without carrying, that cause is an unnatural and injurious one, and ought gradually, if not rapidly, to be removed. [7]
- His eyes were a little heavy, but his complexion was a delicate and unnatural pink and white-like a piece of fine porcelain. [11]
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