How to Use unexplained in a Sentence

unexplained

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  • Do your best to avoid close, skin-to-skin contact with any person with a new and unexplained rash.
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Strange, unexplained things have been known to happen there.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Werewolf by Night might have just added another one to the list of unexplained weapons on Earth.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Our father’s long unexplained absences, the fights between him and our mom.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The other two deaths remain unexplained: Buster's classmate Stephen Smith died in a hit and run that has never been solved.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The first unexplained cases, which was fatal, occurred in an adult in Kansas in March.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022
  • In June 2016, just two months after Makenzie was born, she was treated in the ER for unexplained choking.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Then there was an unexplained pause when Donald Trump did not host Obama.
    — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The ending is abrupt, glossing over the real-life 1972 raid with an unexplained mention in passing.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The only indication of spring is the chronic unexplained leak over my kitchen sink.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Waters said that for some unexplained reason, the suspect allowed other patrons, both white and Black, to leave the store.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • That is where researchers found the increase in unexplained deaths in Black infants but not for any other racial or ethnic groups.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Motives for the attack in and around a children’s lakeside playground in the Alpine town of Annecy remained unexplained.
    — John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • But then he was escorted out of Kuwait for unexplained reasons.
    — John S. Matuszak, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2022
  • But she was never called as a witness for reasons unexplained.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But fans of the Murdaugh Murder Netflix series know that there are two other unexplained deaths highlighted in the show.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The hypoxia event is unexplained, but not uncommon in the Sound, said Powell, the coastal scientist.
    — Anita Lee, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, the genie won’t go back in the bottle easily because 171 remain unexplained.
    — WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • For unexplained reasons, customers sometimes weren’t able to complete their sales at all.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Dec. 2022
  • For Henry, his father’s unexplained death is the ultimate cold case.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The massacre in Soweto comes as the country still mourns the deaths of 22 young people -- some of them as young as 13 -- who died in as of yet unexplained circumstances at a tavern in East London last month.
    — Manveena Suri, David McKenzie and Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 July 2022
  • Something to know about The Luxor in Las Vegas is that the hotel is apparently haunted—over the years it’s seen a number of murders and unexplained deaths.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2024
  • For residents, the silos have been a kind of living proof of the tragedies the Lebanese have been forced to live with over the decades, in which gruesome events that shock the country are left unexplained and no justice is delivered.
    — Nader Durgham, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Why Biden would need to be bribed into rigging an election in his own favor—and how Biden could achieve that as a private citizen—went unexplained.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
  • It was first observed in the nineteen-eighties, when researchers noticed unexplained sequences of viral DNA in E. coli.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, and unexplained bleeding.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
  • People who see a new and unexplained rash should see their doctor and avoid intimacy, Arwady said.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • The restaurant and bar on the first floor have their own set of unexplained swinging light fixtures, whispers, slamming doors and people who report being pushed or touched when no one else is around.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Also in Jake’s clan is an adopted teenage daughter, Kiri (Sigourney Weaver), whose origins are left unexplained.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The unexplained rise in strokes, heart attacks and diabetes, however, is also no joke.
    — WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022

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