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How to use unexplained in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective

Unexplained means not explained; of unknown cause or origin. Example: “There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.”

More sentences with unexplained

  • There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.From the entry drop-off
  • And there is a large, unexplained cool spot in the northern hemisphere.2013 March 21, Dennis Overbye, “Universe as an Infant: Fatter Than Expected and Kind of Lumpy”, in The New York Times. From the entry lumpy
  • Strange unexplained effects abound, there are regions of gravity overload, of bending telnets, lag and cyberspacetime freezes.1999, Indra Sinha, The Cybergypsies. From the entry cyberspacetime
  • British authors have long suspected and documented that vegetable-tanned leather was responsible for many of their unexplained shoe leather-positive patients.2008, Robert L. Reitschel, Joseph F. Fowler, Alexander A. Fisher, Fisher's Contact Dermatitis, 6th edition, Hamilton, Ont.: B. C. Decker…. From the entry shoe-leather
  • “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said.2016 May 10, Amy Chozick, “Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry UAP
  • Thus, unless there exists some being that exists per se, the origination of esse in a chain of composites itself remains unexplained and quite mysterious.2015, Gaven Kerr, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. From the entry per se
  • She Scullied me and I'm sure the word “macrobiotics” never made it into my medical file; it's an unexplained disappearance of cancer.2015, Denny Waxman, The Complete Macrobiotic Diet, →ISBN. From the entry scully
  • The insufferable lines and the need to be rescreened at security even though you have never left a secured area is unexplained.2008 January 27, “Letters: Bad (and Good) Airports”, in New York Times. From the entry rescreen
  • While investigating an uncharted planet, the Enterprise and at least this entire quadrant of space, has been subjected to violent, unexplained stress and force.1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, spoken by William Shatner. From the entry stardate
  • Alternatively, the islandward dip may result from some at present unexplained anomaly, and may have formed recently along the present seaward shore.1962 February 28, Marie-Hélène Sachet, “Geography and land ecology of Clipperton Island”, in Atoll Research Bulletin, number 86, page 97. From the entry islandward
  • The unexplained disappearances of key members of his leadership team and military top brass could be seen as either signs of pervasive corruption or political purges.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC. From the entry pervasive
  • But in a global context — and we are in the midst of a worldwide Christian revival — stories of unexplained healing in response to prayer are common.2022 December 24, Molly Worthen, “How Would You Prove That God Performed a Miracle?”, in The New York Times. From the entry anti-supernaturalist
  • You're looking for reported cases of suspected poisonings, drink-spikings leading to illness or death, unexplained deaths that could have been down to poison, anything like that.2012, Barry Maitland, Dark Mirror, page 18. From the entry spiking
  • The defectiveness of the clone becomes progrssively manifest both in the maturative and the proliferative activity of the progeny, which expands due to a still unexplained biological cause.2012, F. Schmalzl, K.-P. Hellriegel, “Preleukemia -- Problems and Trends”, in F. Schmalzl, K.-P. Hellriegel, editor, Preleukemia. From the entry maturative

Meaning of unexplained

  1. adjective Not explained; of unknown cause or origin.

Full definition of unexplained

Questions about unexplained in a sentence

How do you use unexplained in a sentence?
Unexplained is used as an adjective. For example: “There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter.”
What is a short sentence with unexplained?
““It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said.”
What does unexplained mean?
Unexplained means not explained; of unknown cause or origin.

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