How To Use Unprovoked In A Sentence
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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.
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Eye-witness accounts told of the unprovoked shooting of civilians.
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He is also about 12 years of age and, as far as we know, it was a completely unprovoked assault.
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What happened here was an unprovoked and cowardly attack,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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There's always one that packs unprovoked heat, stinging the gums and making you gurn.
Times, Sunday Times
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The International Shark Attack File describes shark attacks as either provoked or unprovoked.
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Never have I seen such a show of irrational and unprovoked verbal abuse.
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We don't know whether it was unprovoked or whether there had been an incident earlier in the evening.
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Earlier this week, a Blackwater dude made an unprovoked lunge at our car after Kyle tried to take a picture of him.
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But this was his most sustained and unprovoked attack - and it was as needless as it was classless.
The Sun
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A woman has told today how her pet dog's life is hanging in the balance after it was badly mauled by another canine in an unprovoked attack.
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The unprovoked attack happened as he returned from work earlier this month.
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He was kicked in the head after being attacked from behind in what police believe was an unprovoked attack.
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We were so shocked at being on the receiving end of such an unprovoked outburst, we had to check with each other that this guy had actually said what we thought he'd said.
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This was an unprovoked, violent assault and whoever carried it out could quite easily do it again.
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He said it was important to catch the men as quickly as possible, adding that the stabbing seemed to have been unprovoked.
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Completely out of the blue this dog made an unprovoked lunge at Atlas and Montgomery, who I did have on a lead.
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But as there were some of them who, I was convinced, held me rather low in their estimation on account of my pacific principles, I declared that should any king or tribe attack me unprovokedly, they might perhaps find me not unprepared for war to the utmost.
The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson.
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Lorraine's comment was unprovoked, a direct verbal assault done for the sole purpose of her own malicious pleasure.
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He suffered an unprovoked head butt during a night out in November.
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There's a huge problem with unprovoked violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers—collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast—and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American republic.
The Last Patriot
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A spokesman said: ‘This totally unprovoked and motiveless assault was a terrifying ordeal for the young man who had just finished work and was making his way home.’
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He said the girls' parents were appalled to think that ordinary law abiding members of the public could be subjected to such unprovoked violence, especially when with a group.
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But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence, how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression?
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It is an horrific and extremely cowardly attack, which was totally unprovoked.
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A city broker who glassed a colleague in an unprovoked attack has been jailed.
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About one half of all unprovoked shark attacks worldwide involved surfers or windsurfers.
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But the judge branded the violence 'completely unprovoked'.
The Sun
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This isn't some aggrieved person tipped over the edge with a motive to perpetrate evil - this is a seemingly random and unprovoked sequence of events.
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Police are hunting a knifeman who stabbed a 14-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack.
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And all have been guilty of vicious acts of unprovoked violence.
Christianity Today
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Whereupon Tom arose, and giving vent thus to his grief and shame and rage, smote his derider on the nose; and made it bleed; which sent that young worthy howling to the usher, who reported Tom for violent and unprovoked assault and battery.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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The boys' parents are alleged to have carried out the unprovoked assault.
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His wife Angela, 57, said her husband was "unrecognisable" and admitted she and their children Rebecca, 36, Damien, 31, and Edward, 22, had been left reeling by the unprovoked attack and the extent of his injuries.
IOL: News
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The episode ends with Paul's unprovoked and vicious assault on the medics.
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Two teenagers were lucky to still have their sight, after they were sprayed in the face with a corrosive acid in an apparently unprovoked attack on Chiswick High Road.
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Family members are looking for answers to what they described as a senseless and unprovoked murder.
News - chicagotribune.com
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It is difficult to imagine the terror he must have felt as that wholly unprovoked attack was carried out on him.
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It was a totally unprovoked attack on an innocent man.
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It was a totally unprovoked attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police believe the youths did not know their attackers and were the victims of an unprovoked assault.
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He said: 'You could have ended it a long time before but in anger you carried out an unprovoked attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police hunt for street attacker POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an unprovoked attack on a 20 year-old man.
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I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
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The shots fired at her by the offender were totally unprovoked, totally unnecessary.
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Danvers had at first felt naturally offended at the violent and insulting tone in which he had been so unexpectedly and unprovokedly addressed; but this feeling of irritation was but transient, and some fearful suspicions as to
The Evil Guest
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In many cases, inoffensive people are injured in unprovoked assaults.
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A detective described the violence in Thornhill, Dewsbury, by a gang of white men and women as ‘nasty’ and unprovoked.
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This was an appalling and unprovoked attack.
The Sun
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In fact, John Dean, former Senator/Nixon advisor/Watergate whistleblower, wrote in an article that the Constitution makes "leading our nation to unprovoked violence" an impeachable AND imprisonable offense.
A Positive Agenda: Healthy or Unhealthy for the Progressive Cause?
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What happened here was an unprovoked and cowardly attack,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is an horrific and extremely cowardly attack, which was totally unprovoked.
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He says that the attack, which left him with brain damage that robbed him of a sense of taste or smell, was completely unprovoked.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soldiers are accused of using unprovoked deadly force in capturing civilians, some of whom were then allegedly subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment leading to deaths in custody.
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He grabbed her by the shoulder and head-butted her in a motiveless and unprovoked attack.
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How dare they sell us a war that was unprovoked and unnecessary?
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He said: 'This was a totally unprovoked and savage attack.
The Sun
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The South African attacks were cowardly and unprovoked, and unworthy of a coach of his reputation.
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The attacks were totally unprovoked.
The Sun
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The election of Obama also offers, many believe, a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare that has killed and injured many Americans, and an unknown amount of Iraqi citizens; tacitly accepting torture, permitting a denegation of our civil rights, and through rampant deregulation allowing economic devastation which has ripped the entire fabric of the economy.
Paula B. Mays: Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election
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After an unprovoked attack by the Xadaganians and the Orcs which led to the loss of the Elven allod of Grokh to, the Elves signed an accord to join the League.
IGN PC
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We have been led to believe that this was an unprovoked outburst of baseless hatred on the part of the German people.
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It was totally random and unprovoked.
The Sun
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This incident did nothing to increase my love of the reptile, and it was simply no good them both telling me, as they constantly did, that the only snake which will make an unprovoked attack on a human being is the South American bushmaster.
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It didn't seem like they knew him, it was completely unprovoked.
Times, Sunday Times
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But jockeys need protection against these unprovoked attacks.
The Sun
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unprovoked and dastardly attack
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Once again we have seen a totally unprovoked and malicious attack carried out on impulse.
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She also assured us that the jaguar is not a man-eater - in fact there are no recorded cases of a person being attacked or killed by a jaguar in an unprovoked situation.
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It was a totally unprovoked attack on an innocent man.
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What happened here was an unprovoked and cowardly attack,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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The teenager was battered to the ground twice by the gang in an apparently unprovoked attack.
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I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
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the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th
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The incident appears to be completely unprovoked.
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They loot the evidence room to sell drugs, they run prostitution rings, they form untouchable rogue "sub-patrols" of ultra-violent, steroid-pumped jump-out boys, such as the pigs who cold-bloodedly, unprovokedly murdered Adolph Grimes III outside his grandma's house and then lied about it.
NOLA Indymedia
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The attack was completely unprovoked.
The Sun
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When people come in contact with sharks, when they're attacked by sharks unprovokedly, it's usually by mistake because they don't want to eat people.
CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009
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If he unprovokedly I know it isn’t a word, but it should be pointed the shotgun at them, it’s entirely indefensible that he wasn’t charged and they were.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Should We Be Blogging About the “Jena 6″?:
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‘This was a very cowardly and unprovoked attack on a middle-aged lady going about her normal business,’ he said.
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Marky's gig was up, however, when new allegations of racism and homophobia hit the press at the same time as Wahlberg was tried for the unprovoked assault of a security guard.
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Todd Bachman was fatally stabbed and his wife Barbara suffered multiple lacerations in an unprovoked attack around noon on Saturday at the Drum Tower, a popular tourist spot.
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The man who, having been unprovokedly punched by the bully, turns around and belts him one back is rarely considered just as bad as the bully himself.
Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment
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Two people have been jailed for an unprovoked acid attack on a motorist that left him with serious burns.
Times, Sunday Times
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A RUGBY star who knocked a university student unconscious in an unprovoked attack has walked free from court.
The Sun
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Our leaders seem intent on lobbing cruise missiles like craps dice: gambling that the precise use of unprovoked force will effect peace.
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It concluded that there was insufficient evidence of an unprovoked attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two people have been jailed for an unprovoked acid attack on a motorist that left him with serious burns.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a contextless beating, senseless, random and unprovoked.
Reflections on a Rally
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I think you left out one step: the part where Germany lauched it's unprovoked invasion of France as part of the Schlieffen Plan.
World War One ..... it seemed like a good idea at the time ...
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While trying to put myself into her frame of mind, a sudden and unprovoked eureka moment came over me.
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Unprovoked displays of aggression cannot be tolerated.
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If you are the gentleman you would be thought, you will not refuse satisfaction for the diabolical calumnies you have so unprovokedly circulated against an innocent man.
Lectures on Art
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They then demanded an apology for this ‘unprovoked and wanton attack’.
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We insist that those responsible for conspiring to wage unprovoked wars and carry out illegal coups must be tried for war crimes.
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Indeed we should be mutually justified in this exterminatory war upon each other, full as much as you are in the unprovoked persecution of your present countrymen, on account of the conduct of men of the same name in other times.
Paras. 225-249
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It is important to remember that this was not a completely unprovoked and random attack, and that there may have been provocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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'I doat,' she cried, 'upon meeting, now and then, with insolence, for I have a little taste for it myself, which I make some conscience of not indulging unprovoked.'
Camilla
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It was totally unprovoked - we had not done anything to antagonise them at all.
The Sun
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I think this attack was unprovoked and undeserved, vicious, and mired in hate.
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Victims of an unprovoked attack, unprepared, which is the best evidence of peaceable will, witnesses of the outrage of a neighbor people, bleeding from the wounds of their own country, -- what better cause for war could men have?
The World Decision