unlooked-for

How to use unlooked-for in a sentence

• Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.

  The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin

• The good man then devoted his unlooked-for fortune to philanthropies in concert with Judge Popinot.

  Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe

• One unlooked-for result of the evenings happenings was that OLearys antagonism to Dangerfield seemed completely to disappear.

  The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson

• This unlooked-for intelligence, had it reached her in a different way, would have delighted as much as it astonished her.

  At Last | Marion Harland

• The Church shortly discovered an entirely unlooked-for evil, insidious, demoralizing—the political corruption of voters.

  The Leaven in a Great City | Lillian William Betts