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 his eye espied Pao-ch'ai much amused, and he too could not suppress a smile.

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

Unawares it slipped from them, the reason within the reason for their ill, the ultimate cause of sorrow.

From The Master of the Inn by Herrick, Robert