unawares
Example Sentences
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As the plane door opened, the couple were caught unawares.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025
He "sent it" around the outside with full commitment, and caught Piastri - an instinctive and clinical racer himself, normally - unawares.
From BBC • May 18, 2025
The entire plot is driven by Blackthorne’s revelation that even the Christian lords’ European allies are secretly building an army with which they intend to take all of Japan unawares.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024
Because forecasters were caught unawares, so were local residents, who only expected perhaps a Category 2 storm.
From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023
Front loaders and trucks flitted in and out of the scene like ghosts caught unawares.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
