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
  • Our venue teams provide a lot of unseen labor to make for a killer time for guests.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 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
  • Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth.
    — Becki Robins, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 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
  • One of the guards took the auteur to a corner of the prison unseen by the security cameras.
    — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • An unseen segment of the series showed one major holdup in the pair’s future.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But there are challenges — unseen, away from the border.
    — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Throw pillows get tossed around daily and collect all types of filth unseen by the naked eye.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The smoldering cardboard can start a fire that goes unseen and has plenty of time to spread.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Welcome to Wayward Watching, a column on the seen and unseen in film.
    — Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of last week’s Season 2 premiere, the titular lawyer was told by an unseen voice to get in a black SUV.
    — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Then there are those brave souls who wish to peer into the murky unknown of the paranormal to see the unseen and track down things that go bump in the night.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Fanning asks as a man gets dragged by an unseen creature.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Prices of food, rent, gasoline and other items have been leaping at a pace unseen in four decades.
    — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 23 June 2022
  • Later, Alex kills a man at the gym, and the murder goes unseen and unheard by the woman working out in the foreground.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The root of the problem, Gundanna said, is that such communities tend to be unseen in the first place.
    — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But raising a flock can come with many unseen challenges and hassles.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The fact that most of them will go unseen by Academy members strikes me as more of a reason, not less, to make a case for them here.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Shortly thereafter, an unseen assailant clobbers a man over the head, and watches blood pour out of his wound as the man falls dead to the floor.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Some areas of the aging building have been unseen by the public prior to the event's opening.
    — Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Even campsites at Thousand Springs, near Twin Falls, are 61% booked — site unseen.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The impact video had during the Covid-19 pandemic cannot be unseen.
    — Martin Taylor, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • On Thursday, the Prince of Wales took to the couple’s social media and shared a previously unseen black-and-white portrait of the mother of three.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025

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