Example Sentences

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An unknownness enveloped them, as if they were playing a game, as if they were draped in cloth or lost in old rooms.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2019

I could feel the bigness of it and the unknownness of it and a pent-up tension—whether of tears or anger, I couldn't tell.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison