How To Use Unawares In A Sentence
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I'm caught unawares as the wooden door creaks open, and a large man lurches into the room, his belly swaying with every step he takes.
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Such a record as his, such a look in the eyes, the expression unawares of a life of sustained effort -- always in one direction "--
A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
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The overnight invasion took the military experts unawares.
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came upon the diamond unawares
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Materialism traps us, unawares, in a world of possessions hag-ridden by irrational fears of likely loss and lurking dangers.
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Investors and currency dealers were caught completely unawares by the Bundesbank's action.
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By God, he had pitched upon the right word unawares, and I let him know it in the end!
Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
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The suspect was taken unawares, without the chance to dispose of the evidence.
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Materialism traps us, unawares, in a world of possessions hag-ridden by irrational fears of likely loss and lurking dangers.
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The overnight invasion took the military experts unawares.
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Despite the uncongenial tone of her voice, however, a slow flush had caught her cheeks unawares.
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I felt swept under, the way a wave would take you unawares at the shore, and roll you down into the breakers, sucking you in and pulling you across the sand underneath.
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When she had made an end of combing it, she plaited my tresses, and my beauty and loveliness charmed her; so she bent over me and kissed my cheek. 334 At that moment he came in unawares, and, seeing the girl kiss my cheek, straightways turned away in anger, vowing eternal-separation and repeating these two couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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By the time they have cleared the school examinations, professional entrance tests are upon them, catching them unawares.
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If you must splat people unawares, be it on your own head.
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The enemy came on us unawares.
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What caught me unawares this morning was a brief squiz at The Australian online.
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No, we must attack now, before he awaits us - catch him unawares, overwhelm his guardsmen - they do not much outnumber you who are here - slay Ermanaric in one quick, clean blow, and afterward call a folkmoot to pick a new king who shall be righteous.
Time Patrolman
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He left the pen on the table unawares.
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The question caught me completely unawares.
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So McCloy greased your palm a bit to walk home with Hatton and catch him unawares.
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He is like the hapless pedestrian about to turn unawares face first into an expertly placed custard pie.
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Those were slow, silent, often turbid; flowing over beds of mud into which the incautious wader might sink and vanish unawares.
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He left the pen on the table unawares.
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Because of my inability to see clearly, I was caught unawares by the hug and the kiss he planted on me.
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Though caught unawares, the blockader made a graceful bow—too graceful, thought Scarlett, trying to analyze it.
Gone with the Wind
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As I sordidly explained last night in terms which may possibly commend themselves to some of the less elevated members of the community who may have crept among you unawares, that is a form of recognition that I value the more because, when Germany passes back from delirium to sanity, they will have to buy another set!
The Past and the Present
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The suspect was taken unawares, without the chance to dispose of the evidence.
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The soup inside the shengjian mantou can be quite hot and those who dive in unawares can expect to burn their tastebuds something fierce.
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These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
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On the off chance that my jokes are so old that a whole new virgin generation has sprung up unawares, here are a couple of sillier ones.
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Everyone, even newspaper editors, were caught unawares by the Princess Diana phenomenon.
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sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares
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It's so thick beyant that I do belave a stameboat might crape up on us unawares, and we not know a thing about it till we kim slap bang against its bow.
Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie
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But don't be so busy grizzling that this week sneaks up on you unawares - and gives you a whole lot more to complain about.
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Waiting for the train, she glances surreptitiously through the commuters at the lovely young thing walking down the platform unawares.
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But all with one accord say that they bewrayed him in their troth with him, and fell on him as he lay unarrayed and unawares.
The Story of the Volsungs
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In fact her uninhibited attitude towards sex and relationships often catches the people around her unawares.
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But all with one accord say that they bewrayed him in their troth with him, and fell on him as he lay unarrayed and unawares.
The Story of the Volsungs
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Mrs. Ogle, one of the more important members of Hadley Green society—meaning, one with wealth—and a well-known scandalmonger, had caught him unawares.
The Year of Living Scandalously
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Everything moves in the midst of death, because it indeed _moves_; but it falls into the pit unawares and by its own action unmakes and disestablishes itself, until a wonderful visionary faculty is added, so that a ghost remains of what has perished to reveal that lapse and at the same time in a certain sense to neutralise it.
The Life of Reason
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Caught completely unawares, you fall into a kind of discontented alarm.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Investors and currency dealers were caught completely unawares by the Bundesbank's action.
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We have an idea of how something will happen, good or bad, that for a few brief moments things will go our way, then something will jump up unawares and throw things off course.
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Materialism traps us, unawares, in a world of possessions hag-ridden by irrational fears of likely loss and lurking dangers.
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The reasons lie deep in our compound nature, being probably inarticulate; and our action in a fragmentary way betrays our moral disposition: betrays it in both senses of the word betray, now revealing it unawares, and now sadly disappointing it.
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays
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This is my opinion, and I will be the first to admit that my Apple fangirlism may be colouring my view unawares.
World of Apple
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But before we are going to accept this new wrinkle (part of the problem is that we have — inevitably — people in the congregation who confuse the category of a wrinkle with that of a heresy crept in unawares) or even think through its theological implications, however, we need to proceed by way of exegetical proof.
Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
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Yet I cursed myself every time we were caught unawares.
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To be sure, Dan Rather's half-hour broadcasts venture unawares into the realm of outsider art.
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The French, caught unawares because they think the appalling Phil Coulter ditty is an intro to an ad for some sort of cross border version of a bawneen sweater, won't even start hissing, sneering or booing.
Irish Blogs
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Doctors ‘react even more negatively if they're caught unawares’ by patients lobbying for a specific prescription and are receptive to prelaunch educational opportunities, she added.
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Last night's bombing had caught her unawares in the West End.
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The suspect was taken unawares, without the chance to dispose of the evidence.
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This is a popular method of reducing premiums by increasing excesses and many insured are caught unawares.
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Most of the women caught unawares by the sight of the invading Salka fainted dead away from the shock.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Using cameras to observe students unawares is definitely unethical and probably illegal, though we may have to wait for a court to decide that.
What Kids should Know About That School Computer « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
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By the time they have cleared the school examinations, professional entrance tests are upon them, catching them unawares.
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In fact her uninhibited attitude towards sex and relationships often catches the people around her unawares.
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These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
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He left the pen on the table unawares.
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That's why the droop and crinkle of middle-age is the source of such gloom, particularly as it has a nasty habit of catching you unawares.
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So, when Japan's real-estate bubble burst and the economy flatlined for over a decade, the world was caught unawares.
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But what caught her unawares was the horrid thing that by this fact of sudden, unexpected waking she had surprised these other things in the room, beside the very bed, gathered close about him while he slept.
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
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rain caught them unawares
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He came into the room so quietly that he took me unawares.
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To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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Investors and currency dealers were caught completely unawares by the Bundesbank's action.
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None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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That manifestation of the changed existential condition took us unawares - as the change itself took us unprepared.
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I was thinking the other day that certainly and after all (or rather before all) I had loved you all my life unawares, that is, the idea of you.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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The overnight invasion took the military experts unawares.
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And if a nasty little new variant leaps out of the Fujiaan province of China to catch the experts unawares I'm not going to blame them.
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Paws, unposed and taken all unawares of the paw theme, ten minutes ago when I got back from the store.
Another Dog Café.
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More than one contestant was pounded by a sneaker set out on the reef, or was caught unawares by an evil double up shore breaker as they struggled to extract themselves and their massive boards from the sea.
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The announcement took me unawares.
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We've all been so worried about peak oil, it is not surprising we were caught unawares.
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Zemya trudged unawares closer and closer to the edge of the jagged path, everywhere being shrouded by mountain clouds.
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Machiavelism, — all these things impressed Lucien unawares.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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Lop-Ear, caught unawares, also hastily reversed, but did not win the protection of the trunk until after the Fire-Man had twanged the bow.
CHAPTER VII
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Och, sad mishanter! On the stairs Pate bursts upon them unawares.
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A calf sauntered up behind the eminent historian and butted him, taking him unawares.
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Sally had joined Pine in giggling and I was wobbling away all unawares.
THE MANANA MAN
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Then, whan we were snug aboard the vessel, guidness only kens hoo mony miles we went afore we cam 'fornenst the city o' Halifax, for we were three days on the michty ocean, at the mercy o 'ony storm that micht come alang unawares.
Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces
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Sometimes our expectations sneak up on us unawares.
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We do not express our needs clearly and concisely and end up with situations to which we have contributed unawares.
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As the day approaches, we do not wish to be among those caught unawares and unwatchful.
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The question caught me completely unawares.
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The question caught me completely unawares.
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[Illustration: "_I WILL NOT TELL, SIR FRANCIS_"] "What did your father when the proposition was made to kill the queen?" asked Walsingham so suddenly that Francis was caught unawares.
In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls
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This reduces your risk of the markets taking a sudden dive and you being caught unawares until it's too late.