unprovoked

How To Use unprovoked In A Sentence

• In a seemingly unprovoked incident, the attackers hit both men and women in the 16-strong party, with a 72-year-old woman left unconscious.
• Eye-witness accounts told of the unprovoked shooting of civilians.
• He is also about 12 years of age and, as far as we know, it was a completely unprovoked assault.
• What happened here was an unprovoked and cowardly attack,' he said. Times, Sunday Times
• In the first episode a shocking, random act of violence sees a young woman knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack by a stranger. The Sun
• And if the evidence for charges relating to his hostile acts indicates that he was acting in self-defense, then his conduct is as justifiable as would be an assault on a police officer who commits an unprovoked attack on a person. Balkinization
• There's always one that packs unprovoked heat, stinging the gums and making you gurn. Times, Sunday Times
• The International Shark Attack File describes shark attacks as either provoked or unprovoked.
• Never have I seen such a show of irrational and unprovoked verbal abuse.
• We don't know whether it was unprovoked or whether there had been an incident earlier in the evening.