Example Sentences

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It’s a thriller that turns the screws so unnoticeably you begin squirming before you notice how efficiently the play has gotten, well, under your skin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In fact, even this research found that to maximize happiness, you should spend a little more on experiences—it just also found that this “gain” in happiness was incredibly, perhaps unnoticeably, small.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2017

In both stories Mr. Bennett’s prose occasionally and almost unnoticeably switches from the past to the present tense, as if to signal his glee at the immediacy of it all.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2011

Patty’s tears came on like a rain that starts unnoticeably but surprisingly soon soaks everything.

From The New Yorker • May 24, 2010

It would be protective; it would with age turn to silver unnoticeably.

From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold