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

Unawares, we have dropped into that professional jargon which was chiefly forged by one who, though seated in the “scorner’s chair,” was the Thaumaturgus of books and manuscripts.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

Unawares one foot sinks down to the Celestial Empire, and the other anchors in the moon.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne