Example Sentences

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The unusualness of your voice — were you comfortable with it right away, or did you have to come to the understanding that it was an asset for an artist?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

A woman conductor leading a brand-new work by a woman composer is still noteworthy and surprising for its unusualness — a rarer event than it ought to be.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2021

The documentary spends ample time underscoring the unusualness of the arrangement.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2021

Later we will be trying to measure the "unusualness" of an observation or a sample mean and thus we need a measure from the mean.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

I did not sleep much, but passed a comfortable night, for my bed, though hard, was warm and clean: the unusualness of my situation prevented me from sleeping. 

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell