Definition: 1. To a remarkably degree or extent. 2. Used before adjectives to emphasize that a particular quality is greater than normal.
Use 'unusually' in a sentence:
1. The grippe hit unusually severely that year.
2. The choices open to design museums seem far less strict than those to art museum, and visitors may also sense the humorous part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys collected from our everyday life.
3. He was, she believes, unusually susceptible to women.
4. The choices open to design museums seem far less strict than those to art museums, and visitors may also sense humorous part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually.
5. They say that these prison numbers are unusually high and ask why it is the case.
6. In recent years, there has been an unusually large number of divorces in the United States.
7. Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995 was an unusually bright comet.
8. In 1967, Edgerton's side-scan sonar systems revealed a large, unusually shaped object, which McKee believed was the Mary Rose.
9. Jessica imagined herself as a girl of unusually great ability.
10. She seems an unusually clever girl.
11. It's unusually hot this summer.
12. He was an unusually complex man.
13. Living conditions in crowded cities, they say, are similar to those of animals in a zoo and make the inhabitants unusually aggressive.
14. The old peasant conjectured that it would be an unusually cold winter.
15. She possesses a soprano voice of unusually fine quality.
16. The delicate creatures have unusually large wings, which are aerodynamically inefficient1.
17. This year water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze are unusually high.
18. The unusually hot sun has fried up the crops.
19. Some white dwarves4 have almost pure hydrogen or helium atmospheres, but this star has an atmosphere unusually high in the heavier element, carbon.
20. He points out that climate data obtained from slow-growing corals around the Pacific indicate a series of unusually frequent El Ninos around the time of the Lapita expansion.
21. He had been feeling drowsy, the effect of an unusually heavy meal.
22. Traffic was unusually light for that time of day.
23. He seemed unusually attuned to people's feelings.
24. Marine life may be affected too ： El Ninos can reduce the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich water that supports large fish populations, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral.
25. He had an unusually good eye both for things and people.
26. He looked unusually chipper this morning.
27. Waters off the Peruvian coast become unusually warm, destroying the local anchovy fishing industry.
28. The weather is unusually hot.
29. Unusually among British prime ministers, he was not a man of natural authority.
30. For many American, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell.
31. It's a bit unusually busy tonight.
32. For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell.
33. The spring had been unusually dry and we received only two tenths of an inch of rain during the entire month of June.
34. For the past month or more, she had been unusually happy and had been really throwing herself into her work.
35. He is unusually adept in mathematical calculations.
36. The unusually high mortality rate among dolphin calves in the industrially contaminated waters along Florida's Gulf Coast is probably the result of their being poisoned by their mother's milk.
37. That's a marvellous description, Mrs Drummond. You're unusually observant.
38. The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.
39. It turns out to be a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.
40. The singer Michael Jackson's story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy.
41. Observations indicate that gas clouds in galaxy M87 are whirling unusually fast about the galaxy's center.
42. While Maple Hill's conversion program is unusually hands-on and comprehensive, it's just one of a growing number of businesses committed to slowly changing the way America farms.
43. Unusually, for a Japanese politician, he's a fluent English speaker.
44. Bile salts are unusually effective at rupturing cell walls.
45. Seawater samples from the area where the seals died did contain unusually high concentrations of the toxic bacterium.
46. It was unusually hot, dry and windy.
47. Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face.
48. Hypotheses regarding dinosaurian and avian evolution are unusually diverse—and often at odds with one another.
49. Unusually for him, he wore a tie.
50. Darwin also wondered at the origins of the wolves, which were unusually small, and had reddish fur and relatively short jaws.
