UNLESS in a Sentence

Learn UNLESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
263 example sentences for UNLESS, such as:
1. Don't call me unless its a real emergency.
2. Victory won't come to me unless I go to it.
3. My baby sister never cries unless she is hungry.
4. It would take till midnight unless they skipped.
5. We were shown, unless I mistake, the effort renewed.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of UNLESS
unless
 conj.  except if;
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4  To-morrow is your last day, and unless you act to-night you are lost.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
6  It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  It would take till midnight unless they skipped.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
8  What she meant was, change had to come, unless things were perfect; in which case she supposed they resisted Time.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  We were shown, unless I mistake, the effort renewed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
11  If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why, I see nothing to part us, unless you do.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  I shall disclose some of his opinions of you, privately expressed to me, unless he relents a little.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
13  It contained neither secret passage nor trap-door, and unless where the door by which she had entered joined the main building, seemed to be circumscribed by the round exterior wall of the turret.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  I shall settle it for them both," replied Front-de-Boeuf; "they shall hang on the same gallows, unless his master and this boar of Coningsburgh will pay well for their lives.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  I expect little aid from their hand," said Front-de-Boeuf, "unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened.
2  I'd like to open a window, unless anyone has any objections.
3  They wouldn't ask for help unless it were a matter of life and death.
4  All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.
5  My baby sister never cries unless she is hungry.
6  I can't reach the top shelf unless I use a stepladder.
7  Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
8  The government does not want to go to war unless all other alternatives have failed.
9  Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless they were bitter.
10  Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
11  Don't call me unless its a real emergency.
12  No one will care about you too much unless you're pretty or dying.
13  Victory won't come to me unless I go to it.
14  The country has been threatened with complete isolation from the international community unless the atrocities stop.
15  Firstly, unless and until definitions are agreed, we may be attempting to compare the incidence of different phenomena.