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

‘I do not wish to meet that old man at unawares without an argument ready to hand, that is all. Let us go!’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien