How to Use unseen in a Sentence

unseen

adjective
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  • Sean and Olivia found some great unseen home movie footage and sent that.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The other takes the field for only three types of plays and strives to remain unseen.
    — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The police force and, of course, the United States, the unseen actor always present.
    — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Once inside the house, Poirot is haunted by unseen spirits in his search for the truth.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But there is a veil covering the unseen world, which not the strongest man could tear apart.
    — The Editors, Town & Country, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Where the clock is hidden behind the bar, by the empty Pernod, and the hand that refills it, unseen but for us.
    — John Cotter, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • An unseen segment of the series showed one major holdup in the pair’s future.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Throw pillows get tossed around daily and collect all types of filth unseen by the naked eye.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Welcome to Wayward Watching, a column on the seen and unseen in film.
    — Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Fanning asks as a man gets dragged by an unseen creature.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This off-road-ready mid-size pickup truck has been given a number of tweaks both seen and unseen.
    — Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Ahead of the on-demand release of The Eras Tour on Dec. 13, fans are getting a tease of the unseen footage featured in the extended, rental version of the film.
    — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • But raising a flock can come with many unseen challenges and hassles.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The roar of an unseen crowd blares, a deafening noise that rises and falls in enveloping waves.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Even campsites at Thousand Springs, near Twin Falls, are 61% booked — site unseen.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The surprise weekend attack by Hamas left an Israeli death toll unseen since the 1973 war with Egypt and Syria.
    — Josef Federman and Issam Adwan, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Chef Terry, who not only runs the restaurant on a culinary level but also owns it, goes unseen for most of the episode.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
  • The deadly violence between Israel and the Palestinians over the last year and a half has surged to levels unseen in the West Bank in some two decades.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Much of that time, for both men, was spent behind closed doors, unseen by anyone except state workers.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But what helps justify their $595 price tag isn’t just the fact that each pair is made by hand, but all the unseen details that support your stride during runs.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2023
  • All that was required was a paper towel to wipe it down, and since there weren't a ton of nooks and crannies, dirt wasn't hiding anywhere unseen.
    — Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Frank liked to encounter people, photograph them unseen, click, and move on.
    — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
  • On those occasions a dark fear gripped my heart, a sense that dangerous and unseen forces would have the final, fatal say on my life.
    — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The fear of an unseen chain of transmission out in the community, though, had diminished.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The party now dictates what people are allowed to watch, read, listen to and buy in their private lives to an extent unseen in decades.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Birds—previously unseen within the city—flock in, and chaos ensues.
    — Talya Zax, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The movie opens on Nora sitting between Hae Sung and Arthur at a bar, as seen from across the room; unseen patrons guess what the trio’s relationship is over the soundtrack.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2023
  • In Bird Box Barcelona, the same unseen monster from the first film terrorizes and eradicates society.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
  • Beneath the pines and hardwoods of this landscape is an unseen chemical threat to the people and wildlife downstream as the Conasauga flows into the Oostanaula River.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Last year, consumer prices jumped at rates unseen since the 1980s, swiftly eroding the purchasing power of each U.S. dollar.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023

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