unawares

Example Sentences

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As the plane door opened, the couple were caught unawares.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025

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

Although heavy rain had been battering the area for hours, many, like Guillermo Serrano Pérez and his family, were caught unawares by the force of the floods.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2024

Because forecasters were caught unawares, so were local residents, who only expected perhaps a Category 2 storm.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

Dead or alive, the Butcher King still took the Wise Masters unawares.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin