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Example sentences for "unaccustomed"

Lexicographically close words:
unaccompanied; unaccomplished; unaccountable; unaccountably; unaccounted; unacknowledged; unacquaintance; unacquainted; unacted; unactive
  1. In deference to the fact that all but our Japanese friend were unaccustomed to chopsticks, forks were placed on the table as well as the little sticks that the Orientals use so deftly.

  2. He was in that state of unaccustomed and somewhat embarrassed bliss in which a man would have dined happily with Beelzebub.

  3. Loch Leven-head may be bonny by day, but at night it is far from friendly to the unaccustomed wanderer.

  4. A dinner in India is, to one unaccustomed to it, a striking sight.

  5. I am, myself, unaccustomed to be kissed, but it is an operation to which I may accustom myself, in time.

  6. He found the knots of immense assistance, for had it not been for them, unaccustomed as he was to the work, he would have been unable to prevent himself from sliding down too rapidly.

  7. It hesitated before the unaccustomed task; it shrank from contradicting its teachings of charity and was driven forward by popular fanaticism.

  8. Unaccustomed to restraint, vigorous manhood asserted itself in all its greatness and its littleness, whether in wreaking cruel vengeance upon the defenceless or in offering itself joyfully as a sacrifice to humanity.

  9. She carried a little wooden box which with an unaccustomed shyness she asked him to accept.

  10. He bowed with the stiffness of a back unaccustomed to that form of salutation.

  11. Unaccustomed to open the letters, he became impatient at their number, and he opened very few.

  12. His horse, unaccustomed to parades, and frightened by the roll of the dram, refused to pass the gate till spurred on by Napoleon, while a significant look passed among the escort.

  13. In these unaccustomed bouts Richard was soundly drubbed, as he had anticipated, but throughout he found himself the stronger man, and he managed somehow to avoid an absolute overthrow.

  14. And it was natural, even the mem-sahiba must allow, for unaccustomed modesty to shrink.

  15. A sinister-looking landscape, indeed, to unaccustomed eyes like mine.

  16. To unaccustomed eyes the first sight of passion is always terrifying and is usually repellent.

  17. He spoke quietly, but if she had drunk many more than two glasses of an unaccustomed and heady liquor she would have felt his intonation.

  18. Mrs. Eliot, who was already panting with exertion and the fatigue of stretching up her ample figure to unaccustomed heights, looked down at him doubtfully.

  19. Being, however, quite unaccustomed to dealing with this dual condition of mind it is to be feared he was a little "distrait" and mechanical of speech.

  20. He enjoyed an unaccustomed and languid repletion in his mind, as if it had been overfed and wanted to lie down for a time.

  21. The priest's words had struck an unaccustomed chord of memory in the doctor's mind.

  22. With a somewhat unaccustomed flash of imagination, she looked into the future and saw herself lonely in the flat, or with another girl who could never be to her what Rita was.

  23. The new young squire was bubbling over with exhilaration, plans for the future, the sense of power, the unaccustomed and delightful feeling of solidity and security.

  24. And many brazen-beautiful faces softened for a moment, many pleasure-sodden hearts had a diastole of unaccustomed tenderness as the music pulsed to its close.

  25. Nobody in town was unaware of Homer's infatuation for the coffee demonstrator--with the one exception of Homer's father, who was too busy waiting upon the unaccustomed rush of trade to notice anything else.

  26. While the unaccustomed ears of Europe were shocked at the shrill cries from the rival conventions at Chicago and Baltimore, there was equal turbulence in the Italian Parliament at Rome.

  27. It was after giving prominence to an unusually vivid bit of political vituperation that a conservative London newspaper remarked, "All this is characteristically American, but it shocks the unaccustomed ears of Europe.

  28. These, unaccustomed to interruption, would rapidly lose temper, and they and their partisans would make a rush through the crowd to seize their interrogators.

  29. That strenuous and unaccustomed physical and mental exertion may involve a consumption both of nerve substance and muscular tissue, greater than the outcome of the ordinary diet is able to compensate.

  30. The forgetfulness of earthquake experiences in countries where they are familiar, always amazes those unaccustomed to the awful agitations and troubled with the anticipations of imagination.

  31. You are there, too,' she breathed at last, and then Sidney forgot her beauty for an instant, and lost himself in unaccustomed humility.

  32. A cricket, safely ensconced for the Winter in a crevice of the hearth, awoke in the unaccustomed warmth, piping a shrill and cheery welcome, but Miss Evelina sat abstractedly, staring into the fire.

  33. Unaccustomed since her girlhood to activity of any description, she found her new tasks hard.

  34. They could see certain details, however, for they were all one great family of little people, and it was no unaccustomed thing for them to watch a moral conquest, though they had no conception of an intellectual one.

  35. I am unaccustomed to address a jury, and I hope to avoid the charge of presumption or dogmatism.

  36. But he had not progressed very far before he became annoyed by an unaccustomed intrusion of dampness that threatened him with a cold.

  37. This was a great and unaccustomed luxury to the Arnauts.

  38. All this kept his mind in a state of new and unaccustomed activity.

  39. They were awkward at these unaccustomed tasks, which had hitherto been reserved by quite a different class of society, and had had to grow accustomed thereto; their heads were gray and wrinkled.

  40. By the manner in which he blew his nose--with his knuckles instead of with his fingers--one could see that he had something unaccustomed on hand.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unaccustomed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.