Sentence examples for almost unfamiliar from inspiring English sources

But when she sat down before kickoff, she found herself in an almost unfamiliar position: on a couch.

He must, he thought, have noticed this before, but now the room seemed shabby and strange, almost unfamiliar, and not the room he had slept in every night throughout his childhood, with the small desk in the corner where he did his homework.

But they have taken everyone's urge to tell a story to a new and almost wholly unfamiliar level.

As someone who eats out professionally, I found it refreshing to choose between dishes that were almost completely unfamiliar.

The drink was almost as unfamiliar to me as the setting for the book: Mexico in the thirties.

That's a terrain that major-studio films are almost entirely unfamiliar with these days: it's too dangerous, too unpredictable, like the wilder reaches of Afghanistan.

Home advantage, albeit at a venue almost as unfamiliar to the Italians as to their visitors, will be crucial to the Azzurri when they welcome England to Rome on Saturday.

These three women lived thousands of miles apart and were almost certainly unfamiliar with one another's work, yet they shared a visual language that had very different meanings for each.

As for those parts of the Old Testament that bend the laws of physics, they are symbolic and should be read as such.This is a God that would be almost as unfamiliar to Edmund Gosse's father, to John Calvin or the pope as it would to a Roman sacrificing a bull to Mithras.

I have been lucky enough to live, in some sense, in White's world for the past four years a world that is almost completely unfamiliar to us, but which we can imagine thanks to his careful observation of the life around him.

As a judge of the Court of Chancery he was required to deal with cases of equity; though he was almost entirely unfamiliar with the Roman law it was based on, he had previously practised in the Chancery.