unawares
Example Sentences
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Federal prosecutors disagreed, indicating they were caught unawares by his removal and still hoped to bring Flores to trial — if he ever returns to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
All of those clips are mesmerizing and alluring and haunting, as if we’re actually looking at invisible spirits or fairies captured unawares.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024
Because forecasters were caught unawares, so were local residents, who only expected perhaps a Category 2 storm.
From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023
Our source said that the coup caught everyone unawares, despite rumours floating around Gen Nguema.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023
Alysane Mormont, whose men name her the She-Bear, hidfighters inside a gaggle of fishing sloops and took the ironmen unawares where they lay off the strand.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
