Example sentences for: unorthodox

How can you use “unorthodox” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To fortify this unorthodox analogy, the Clintons bound guns and bombs together in their legislation and in their analysis on the Colorado tragedy.

  • In front of the neoclassical façade stand several statues including Anne Hutchinson, who left the intolerant colony for Rhode Island, Quaker Mary Dyer who was hung for her unorthodox views, and John F. Kennedy striding in front of the western wing.

  • We can maximize the total freedom of speech by silencing people who prevent others from speaking--when they utter racial epithets, represent women in degrading ways, use their wealth to dominate the press and the political process, or block the funding of unorthodox art.

  • He thinks the NEA should subsidize art that will enhance the "robustness" of the debate and should therefore prefer unorthodox art--though only, of course, if it represents a viewpoint the endowment considers, by virtue of social need and a prior history of exclusion, worthy of its megaphone.

  • Lucie Berard's father reported that the portrait of his daughter, with its unorthodox coloring and swirling purple background, "simply frightens people away."


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