How To Use Unbeknownst In A Sentence

  • Trying to be inconspicuous, for reasons unbeknownst to her, she looked past Shamus to the writing all over his walls, trying to read the words bordering them.
  • As you say, Hercle is most definitely performing haruspicy because of his left foot raised to rest on what looks like nothing more than a stone, unbeknownst to mysterymonger De Grummond who mangles the meaning of the mirror with cutesy parenthesized question marks and disjointed artistic interpretations. More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world
  • New Orleans - Panic In The Streets (1950): Early Elia Kazan suspenser centers around an increasingly desperate search for two criminals on the lam in New Orleans (played by Jack Palance and Zero Mostel), who, unbeknownst to them, have been infested with bubonic plague. John Farr: The Best City Movies by Farr
  • Unbeknownst to us the malaysian student association had been using our home ground for an impromptu sunday arvo soccer comp. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 23 April
  • Unbeknownst to them, a pair of brown eyes with a purple tint was watching them intently.
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  • I know a Japanese woman whose name unbeknownst to her happened to be the same as that of a wanted member of the Japanese "Red Army". Can you spot the errors in this picture?
  • Unbeknownst to most of the country, a company in London has been using broadband connections via traditional phone lines to pipe television into homes.
  • The white chips were a hasty afterthought, and the fact that they sunk right to the very bottoms of the cakes is evidence of the fact that the initial cake recipe was (unbeknownst to me) flawed. Archive 2009-06-01
  • And when I wasn't playing it, it was replaying itself in my head - unbidden and sometimes almost unbeknownst.
  • With no bomb-shell of an October surprise namely a tape coming from Osama bin Laden as was done in the 2004 presidential campaign; a self-inflicted November surprise came about today when Sarah Palin took an active part in a prank phone call unbeknownst to her. Sarah Palin and the prank call: The GOP's self-inflicted November surprise
  • November 4, 2008 is a day that will go down in infamy as the day the American people, unbeknownst to them, elected the FIRST MARXIST SOCIALIST government in the history of the United States Republican takes on Obama's 'czars'
  • As you say, Hercle is most definitely performing haruspicy because of his left foot raised to rest on what looks like nothing more than a stone, unbeknownst to mysterymonger De Grummond who mangles the meaning of the mirror with cutesy parenthesized question marks and disjointed artistic interpretations. More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world
  • unbeknownst to me, she made all the arrangements
  • Still, how strangely concordant that the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and his American counterpart Paul Strand should both have been roaming Mexico's ancient towns at roughly the same time, unbeknownst to one another. Two Sides of the Same Coin
  • We popped on each seal-island "unbeknownst," and what we discovered we held our jaws on. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891
  • Unbeknownst to Wiener, he was not the first modern scientist to reactivate this word.
  • The previous night, he'd manufactured a homemade stinkbomb and unbeknownst to all of us, this mild explosive device would transform a practical joke into a felonious street crime.
  • I hate doing anything of the kind "unbeknownst" to people, so there is the exact history of my proceedings. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Fitzgerald, Squire Terence Malone, and the other squires of the neighborhood had many a good smoke there, and many a hearty laugh, as they said, quite "unbeknownst" to the English lady and her grand friends. Light O' the Morning
  • Unbeknownst to John J., he has been set up by a mole in the operation.
  • Unbeknownst to them, the dam was constructed over five disused mine shafts, which led into the underground workings of an old mine.
  • Unbeknownst to many, community agencies are also experimenting with innovative waysprevention, education, easy accessto be helpful in a world in which the landscape has so dramatically changed. Childhood Unbound
  • Authentic tells are unbeknownst to the player and are unconscious.
  • Unbeknownst to him and his attorneys, the police records show that Wood knew Christine Morton's credit card was used in San Antonio two days after her death and a forged check in her name was cashed a week after that. Breaking News: CBS News
  • Panic In The Streets -- This stunning suspenser centers around an increasingly desperate search for two criminals on the lam in New Orleans (played by Jack Palance and Zero Mostel), who, unbeknownst to them, have been infested with Bubonic plague. John Farr: The Centennial of Elia Kazan
  • Unbeknownst to her father, she began taking dancing lessons.
  • Unbeknownst to the vast majority of straphangers, the humble MetroCard is essentially a floppy disk, uniquely identified by a serial number on the flip side.
  • Unbeknownst to me, the bib that got put so swiftly around my neck when I arrived, turned out to be attached by leads to the back of my chair and I nearly garroted myself. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
  • But unbeknownst to the townspeople, he's actually their old sheriff, bullwhipped to death in the streets like a dog.
  • Once, unbeknownst to her, he scooted under her bed and from his hiding place witnessed one of her extraordinary consultations. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • she had been ill for months, unbeknownst to the family
  • Unbeknownst to us, they cut themselves off from interaction that could help them develop a sense of reality.
  • Reprisals followed fast, unbeknownst to Laura who went to bed early that night. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • Unbeknownst to most of us today, some of the figs that we eat, such as the Calimyrna or the Smyrna, may contain wasp remains, although these insect husks are usually broken down by an enzyme called ficin. The Fruit Hunters
  • Second, unbeknownst to him, several items he depends on from other academics to be facts are sadly outright fabrications: 1. There is no *safin- in Etruscan, a word conjectured from an Italic ethnonym. Archive 2009-12-01
  • P.S. When I hear the word unbeknownst, all I think about is Jeff Conway and Daniel Baldwin's confrontation where Daniel said "unbeknownst to Jeff ...." and Jeff just kept screaming "no I fucking did not, take it back". Radioactive girl
  • James Ponsoldt: This notion is at the core of Killer of Sheep: what it means to be an adult, and how children learn and internalize grown-up behavior and responsibilities through lectures, through tears, but mostly by silently observing, peeking around corners, usually unbeknownst to their parents. GreenCine Daily: Filmmaker. Spring 07.
  • In addition to being the most selfish person in the room at any given time, Margot is also the smartest and — unbeknownst to her — the funniest. Fearlessly selfish characters make “Margot” fascinating » Scene-Stealers
  • Unbeknownst to him, the mean frat boy jackasses are hazing him something fierce, for their own amusement.
  • A person can die from it and never know why, or how, or who put it where it could be swallowed unbeknownst. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • Unbeknownst to our finalist, four of these bullets are blanks.
  • Laura dated Tom first, and, unbeknownst to the gilded Waspy bride, has for years sustained an intimacy with the groom-to-be.
  • And he was now teaching young Patsy, unbeknownst to his elder brothers, the rudiments of the noble art of self-defence.
  • How could Paulsons opinions and predilections about subprime RMBS have been "unbeknownst" to ACA at the time? SEC vs. Goldman: A Case Of Amnesia?
  • McCain unbeknownst to Warner has indeed picked up a hot charcoal ember with his tongs, and purple with rage waits for Warner to turn back. “Weenies”
  • Unbeknownst to him, Andrew was a repressed telepath; having absolutely no idea what kind of abilities he could wield with a little training.
  • Unbeknownst to this merry quintet, in those same woods, a hermit finds his dog, dead and decimated, apparently the recipient of a brutal flesh-eating contagion.

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