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Sentence Examples Materialism traps us, unawares, in a world of possessions hag-ridden by irrational fears of likely loss and lurking dangers. We've all been so worried about peak oil, it is not surprising we were caught unawares. Despite the uncongenial tone of her voice, however, a slow flush had caught her cheeks unawares. He is like the hapless pedestrian about to turn unawares face first into an expertly placed custard pie. We do not express our needs clearly and concisely and end up with situations to which we have contributed unawares. So, when Japan's real-estate bubble burst and the economy flatlined for over a decade, the world was caught unawares. Zemya trudged unawares closer and closer to the edge of the jagged path, everywhere being shrouded by mountain clouds. 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. To be sure, Dan Rather's half-hour broadcasts venture unawares into the realm of outsider art. A calf sauntered up behind the eminent historian and butted him, taking him unawares. The soup inside the shengjian mantou can be quite hot and those who dive in unawares can expect to burn their tastebuds something fierce. This reduces your risk of the markets taking a sudden dive and you being caught unawares until it's too late. What caught me unawares this morning was a brief squiz at The Australian online. As the day approaches, we do not wish to be among those caught unawares and unwatchful. Stealing upon her unawares, I knocked her senseless, gagged her, and bound her hand and foot. By the time they have cleared the school examinations, professional entrance tests are upon them, catching them unawares. This is a popular method of reducing premiums by increasing excesses and many insured are caught unawares. 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. 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. 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. Show More Sentences Waiting for the train, she glances surreptitiously through the commuters at the lovely young thing walking down the platform unawares. Catching people unawares can result in instant dismissal or a range of other unproductive outcomes. Such a woman would be much more difficult to catch unawares than a teenage escort trapped in a motel room. Sunday's relative balminess caught the couple, and many others in New York, unawares. It all happened like lightning', wrote the historian of one of the German units, 'and before we had fired a shot we were taken unawares. Indeed, the move caught him and his office so unawares that they had arranged press briefings for the following day. I can't help but think that the government deliberately put these amendments to the side so as to catch us unawares, or when we're exhausted. In some cases, cyberspace eases the transition to a criminal act almost unawares. In exceptional cases, where the motor-cycle may be caught unawares, too close to the riders, it shall let the riders overtake it. These are some of the products people breathe in unawares, when they are sitting at home, watching television. But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning! We must by now all know that, unless we address unfinished business, it can and will take us unawares. Perhaps young people are more alive to the danger than are older people upon whom the problem has crept up unawares. And, make no mistake about it, this was no rushing back into the spotlight, bady prepared and caught unawares! It is just appalling to find out that this information was in the system and went unawares. The driver, used to a car with less grip at the front, will therefore be taken unawares. In her defense, the former Mrs. topper Mortimer claims to have been caught unawares by the crew herself. 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. To avoid being taken unawares, the Union must establish a permanent organisation responsible for monitoring potential crisis zones, organised by geographic area in peace time. The Egyptian army would have been annihilated, had not a detached Egyptian regiment arrived most opportunely from another direction and caught the Hittites unawares as they were pillaging the camp. Show More Sentences The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon, arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion. But Europeans must never be taken unawares by the new technology. They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas. On September 4, these gunboats were taken unawares and captured by British boarding parties from canoes and small boats. Cloning should not catch us unawares, quite the reverse: it is in our power to ensure that ethics keep ahead of the development of technological applications. It would not be the first time street sign pranks caught the public and councillors unawares. People who do not closely monitor their mental state may sink unawares into profound discouragement after a series of turn-downs, feeling that the rejections represent a personal failure. Of course we were all caught unawares when we saw the deputy government House leader standing up and trying to rule that this particular bill would be out of order. We noted a major problem relating to equalization, and wanted to ensure its stability, so that the provincial governments will not be caught unawares because of an adjustment to the highly complex equalization program rules. More than one people, drawn into civil war, has courted collective suicide unawares, and there is no guarantee that humanity as such will not one day succumb to such a risk. All the old empires that were caught unawares by the rise of Europe and the threats that this posed to them embarked on more or less ambitious and effective modernization projects. Overhead, the Southern Cross sparkles furiously to remind us, in case we might be caught unawares, that, here, the sun turns anti-clockwise in the sky. The symbolism of the moment caught him unawares. The group were caught unawares by Harding's resignation, which was forced by Murdoch, with Pennant-Rea believed to be particularly unhappy about his ousting. Our beady-eyed snapper caught the actress unawares on Monday morning after celebrating her 20th birthday with 100 friends in Malibu. This was told to King Harold, and he gathered then a great army and come towards them at the Hoary Apple Tree, and William came upon him unawares before his folk were ready. The victorious fleet was then caught unawares when attempting to leave the River Stour, and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Examples from Classical Literature In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The king's army lay on Sedgemoor, and Monmouth, in the early morning of July 6, attempted to fall on the enemy unawares. At first I crouched under it sinisterly, as a man will when an evil takes him unawares. Politics, Bourbonism, Napoleonism, Boulangerism ere this had crept in unawares sporting strange disguises. The attack was so unprovoked that Stroeve, taken unawares, was defenceless. It's rather a fool-scheme, if you ask me, but it might have been a nuisance if it had been sprung on us unawares. It had come upon him so unawares that he felt he had not kept it out of his voice. However, I catch him unawares occasionally, and this is a snap I took last summer. The Itabyrians accepted the invitation, with the design of assailing the Romans, unawares. At least, Yates, with all his experience, thought he had taken her unawares. I had unawares added to her grief, for her brother Charley was going to Switzerland too. The very habit of our thoughts may be persuaded one way unawares by their antenatal history. I was the harbinger of sudden departures, but there was nothing in the world sudden enough to take Dominic unawares. Carried away by the grotesque horror of this picture, the minister, unawares, and to his own infinite alarm, burst into a great peal of laughter. Abruzzi caught most people unawares at Towcester, but it would come as less of a surprise if he doubles up in the attheraces. I have floundered unawares into the pitfall, and now I must flounder out. But we must watch that we are not taken unawares by the evil windigo. When they are blotted out, we take the sultan and kalif unawares! The first chance was to cultivate friendly terms with Magdalen, and then, taking her unawares, to entrap her into betraying herself in Noel Vanstone's presence. So far as I can make out, the Greys, with whom I am to go, are to fight until they are wiped out in order to enable the wings to slip round unawares and outflank Twala. Show More Sentences The hot weather of July had crept upon them unawares, and the atmosphere of the flat vale hung heavy as an opiate over the dairy-folk, the cows, and the trees. Sometimes he used to come on me unawares and then I had to sit still and listen to his miserable ravings, because he would catch me round the waist and hold me very tight. Dimmesdale, noon-day, and entirely unawares, fell into a deep, deep slumber, sitting in his chair, with a large black-letter volume open before him on the table. The physician bowed and took his leave, esteeming himself somewhat fortunate in escaping without being reproached for his humanity in having allowed Henrietta to die unawares. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of unawares? Words that rhyme with unawares What is the adverb for unawares? What is the adjective for unawares? What is the noun for unawares? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words unawareness unaware unawakened unavowed unavoidably unavoidable unawed unbacked unbagged unbaked unbalance unbalanced 8-letter Words Starting With u un una unaw unawa unawar unaware