UNCONVENTIONAL in a Sentence

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1. The mother's unconventional behavior also raised many conservative eyebrows.
2. Your inexperience is an asset and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNCONVENTIONAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unconventional
 a.  not conforming to accepted rules or standards
Classic Sentence:
1  Between artists and cultured socialists, Constance and her sister Hilda had had what might be called an aesthetically unconventional upbringing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
3  For a moment she found a certain amusement in the show, and in her own share of it: the situation had an ease and unconventionality distinctly refreshing after her experience of the irony of conventions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4  They were never vulgar, never immoral, but rather rough and primitive, with an unconventionality that spent itself in loud guffaws, slaps on the back, and naps in the corner.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence:
1  The volume of unconventional gas isn't significant on a U. K. wide scale, supplying enough electricity for only 1,200 homes, but the potential is there, analysts say.
2  The mother's unconventional behavior also raised many conservative eyebrows.
3  Your inexperience is an asset and will allow you to think in original and unconventional ways.