adverb
definition
In an unusual manner.
Examples of unusually in a Sentence
Last October I heard of an unusually bright little girl in Texas.
After the service, Alex was unusually silent.
Maybe he was unusually hungry.
She was unusually pleased by the idea.
He was unusually tender and kind to me, and for a brief space the shadow lifted.
But Bordeaux was an unusually good-looking man - and that spelled trouble.
It was a fine day, sunny after rain, and the air was unusually pure.
Only blindness could have prevented her from knowing that she was unusually attractive.
Mary stood by, unusually quiet, but when Cade left she found her voice.
Alex was unusually quiet through breakfast and she assumed he was thinking about that darkness thing.
They are the only ones, Darkyn's growl was unusually soft, almost a purr.
He was unusually coordinated for such a large man, at least any she had seen up to now.
Frustrated when he was around, she couldn't help but feel unusually alone when he was gone.
The bloodied arm was making her unusually lightheaded.
Kris watched the door to the guest bedchamber close, unusually hopeful about his discovery.
Her unusually swift stride outdistanced both of them.
This skull is unusually schizognathous, the vomer (v.) being very small, and the maxillo - palatine process (mxp) much aborted.
The few supplies she had would barely last the night, especially since the flow was unusually heavy.
Darian looked unusually calm.
Golitsuin was unusually well educated.
Even Mr. Cade had hinted that it was unusually large.
His gaze was unusually intense as he struggled to control his emotions.
Their expressions were unusually sober.
Evelyn sounded unusually pensive.
But Fred was being unusually patient.
Alex was back by lunch and unusually quiet when they sat down to eat.
The wood covers were unusually cool to his touch, and a shiver went up his arm.
The Mosquito Indians, of whom there are several tribes, are an unusually intelligent people, short of stature and very dark-skinned.
As nearly every house is surrounded by a courtyard or garden, the town covers an unusually large area for the number of its inhabitants.
He was unusually tall, and possessed in advanced years a strange and rather terrifying air of sombre majesty.
For an unusually long period this particular poetry had occupied public and professional opinion, and all the commonplace things about it had been said and re-said to satiety.
The years spent at Jena were unusually productive; indeed, the completed Fichtean philosophy is contained in the writings of this period.
Bricked vault tombs were discovered containing bodies outstretched (not contracted); the deposits were of an unusually fine character and comprised silve, alabaster and even iron.
The very large mass of detail collected at these inquiries entails an unusually long time spent in compilation; the statistics of population, accordingly, are available considerably in advance of those relating to production and industries.
That year, however, was an unusually bad year; the lamperns, from their scarcity, fetched £8, ios.
Unlike Australia, its geological structure is unusually varied, and owing to its instability, it includes, for its size, an unusually complete series of marine sedimentary rocks.
He had written a popular history of the late war, the first volume having an immense sale and bringing him unusually large profits.
The original materials for a life of St Columba are unusually full.
All plant life has a remarkably large proportion of subterranean growth, because of the necessity of getting moisture from the earth and not from the air; hence roots and tubers are unusually well developed.
When, on the outbreak of the Swedish war of 1809, the emperor ordered the army to take advantage of an unusually severe frost and cross the ice of the Gulf of Finland, it was only the presence of Arakcheev that compelled an unwilling general and a semi-mutinous army to begin a campaign which ended in the conquest of Finland.
Freeman remarks, "it is an excellent example of a small cathedral of its own style and plan, with unusually little later alteration."
Nevertheless along the whole line some kind of surveillance was established long before the close of 1861, and, in proportion as the number of vessels available increased, the blockade became more and more stringent, until at last it was practically unbreakable at any point save by the fastest steamers working under unusually favourable conditions of wind and weather.
Hence field fortifications played an unusually prominent part, time and material being available as a rule for works of solid construction.
Buchan describes the island-studded portion of the western Pacific as the most extensive region of the globe characterized by an unusually heavy rainfall.
The abnormal connective tissue in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome leads to trouble with wound healing and unusually stretchy skin.
A manicurist patient of Dr. Stuart Nordstrom pointed out that the odor of a temporary tooth cap was unusually similar to that of the materials used to mold porcelain nails.
If you're under-eye skin is unusually transparent, you are more likely to exhibit circles no matter what you do.
It may seem like Italy has an unusually large number of different police forces, but when you think about it, it's no different in most countries.
This mountainous district, having the sea to the west, records an unusually heavy rainfall.
An unusually able ruler, connected by marriage with the powerful Servian dynasty of Nemanya, and by treaty with the republic of Ragusa, 2 Kulin perceived in the new doctrines a barrier between his subjects and Hungary.