unawares

Example Sentences

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Angels Unawares depicts 140 refugees packed into a boat.

From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2020

Unawares, and not hungry, Sam decided not to order anything.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2017

"Taken Unawares: Snapshots of Celebrated People" was a page in the tabloid Penny Pictorial.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2010

Be still, my thoughts, lest you creep Unawares into her sleep.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

Unawares, he became conscious of some one having given him a push; and faintly fell on his ear the plaintive tones of some person in distress.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft