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Example sentences for "unconventional"

Lexicographically close words:
uncontrollably; uncontrolled; uncontroulable; uncontrouled; uncontroverted; unconventionality; unconverted; unconvicted; unconvinced; unconvincing
  1. To be sure, the unconventional doctor had been insulting; his was hardly the orthodox reception to be expected by one who had crossed the continent to become his partner in some hidden enterprise.

  2. Grant, caught off balance by so unconventional a reception, stammered that he had no symptoms.

  3. Griff, a tall, blond youth, proved to be as lively and unconventional as Jim was serious and reserved.

  4. He's the most unconventional chap you ever saw; a perfect riot.

  5. Anabel does, and he retires, cheerfully unconscious of anything unconventional in the episode.

  6. The Village is, to be sure, entirely unconventional and incurably romantic and dramatic in its tastes.

  7. In reckless, scholarly rhyme he has imprisoned something of the reckless idealism of the Artists' Quarter--that haven for unconventional souls.

  8. Being remote from regular travel routes, the district is fresh and unspoiled; and those who enjoy absolute quiet, unconventional life and a friendly welcome will be sure to feel at home in Sherbrooke.

  9. Not only as a writer but also as a man he takes that far-seeing, keen, sincere, unconventional view of things in general that distinguishes the thoroughbred Westerner.

  10. For if there be anything magnificently unconventional in American literature it is such works as "A Spoil of Office" and "Crumbling Idols.

  11. Naturally his unconventional method of studying English literature had an unusual result.

  12. The police officer was uppermost in him now, but he smiled a certain cordiality at the other's frankly unconventional greeting.

  13. You see, we're very unconventional here, and your brother's a great friend of ours.

  14. He was taken aback at the unconventional greeting.

  15. Yes, I love even the unconventional conventions of the place.

  16. The Board of Trade, an old and historic department, largely bound up with red tape, became the most unconventional office in Whitehall.

  17. By general consent Lloyd George did extremely well in his bold, rapid, and unconventional financial policy.

  18. She knew he could be trusted and had without much hesitation made her unconventional request.

  19. Then she blushed with shame as she realized that from his point of view her unconventional behavior warranted his suspicions.

  20. Unconventional himself, he nothing heeded the chagrin of Mr. Barrett over his inappropriate garb, and chuckled like a schoolboy over his successful raid.

  21. It seems strange enough, that those of us who lived the rough life of Kansas's early days, did not entirely adopt the careless, unconventional existence of the pioneer, but military discipline is something not easily set aside.

  22. Mr. Rudyard Kipling is by divine caprice and natural genius an unconventional poet; but what he desires more than anything else to be is a conventional poet.

  23. It has been even in some sense an advance from unconventional opinions to conventional opinions.

  24. It is my unconventional way of intimating that I am at home.

  25. You forget we are all realistic and unconventional persons here, and do all kinds of odd things.

  26. The impression was that he belonged among those brilliant guerrillas of both sexes, in the border-land of art and society, who lived daintily and talked about life with unconventional freedom.

  27. Reading further, we find that this dishabille companionship involves visits by way of the back door and at all sorts of unconventional hours.

  28. We have all been witnesses at some time or other of that most unconventional performance where the woman in the case allows herself to be dragged across the floor to the man concerned.

  29. The unconventional redeployment of the Plutonian Assault Force amazed and appalled him.

  30. After all, Elizabeth's wedding ceremonies, though shorn of much customary state, were not so wildly unconventional as to shock the feelings of society.

  31. With him she could go anywhere, enjoying a genuine independence, a complete self-confidence, thinking her unconventional behaviour merely good fun.

  32. Then he gave himself to intensest listening and questioning, and presently followed his questions with suggestions which showed that unconventional ways of working were not altogether new to him.

  33. I know this is a most unconventional method, but a doctor is never sure of his time.

  34. On the few occasions that he had seen Mary he was attracted by the brilliant, unconventional little woman, and when she was ill was very attentive and kind to her.

  35. Even then she was unconventional in her methods and was criticised for it.

  36. Our wanderings have been so pleasant and unconventional that I am loth to leave," she said, as she slowly sank again among her cushions.

  37. I have heard nothing since of my unconventional travelling companion.

  38. I must apologize again, Miss Trevert," he said, "for making such an unconventional entrance and giving you such a fright.

  39. He is the most unconventional of men, capable of even approving this madcap scheme of yours!

  40. His sermons, though not particularly speculative, were unconventional and quickening.

  41. Your carbines are not so unconventional and antique," he said meaningly, and with a frosty smile.

  42. The unconventional reformers quote to themselves, I suppose: “Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,” etc.

  43. When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, the historic sense.

  44. For the honest truth is that the unconventional person is almost never just unconventional enough.

  45. This tactical fact the unconventional folk have at last become aware of; and, accordingly, hostility to convention is ceasing somewhat to take itself out in phrases.

  46. And the truly unconventional person has not even a motif; for he disdains repetition.

  47. At least, most avowedly unconventional people are now treating themselves as reformers.

  48. Unconventional people are apt to be Whistlers who cannot paint.

  49. Above all, when we become incapable of the shock verbal, there will be nothing left for the unconventional people but the shock practical.

  50. It became a merry and familiar party, as the way is with easy foreigners, particularly when they meet in such wild and unconventional surroundings.

  51. Because of courageous approach to the basic problem of relations between the homosexual and his family, this story of a young homosexual in an unconventional household deserves shelfspace everywhere.


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