How to Use unawares in a Sentence

unawares

adverb

• The Center for Disease Control does not want you to be caught unawares.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2011
• The Blank Page Movement has caught those leaders unawares.
  — Christopher Rea and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• Likewise, thousands of pedestrians walk unawares over dozens of old ships buried beneath the streets of the city’s financial district.
  — Greg Miller, National Geographic, 2 June 2017
• The drivers were taken unawares when empty cans and bottles showered them and one driver jumped in his cab and departed.
  — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
• However, Zhao notes that even if the government has the technology needed to spot such fakes, the public might be caught unawares.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 28 May 2021
• After all, one of the worst moves investors can make is letting a recession catch them unawares and bailing on their portfolios in response.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• Michael Packard was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Friday, when the capital cetacean caught him unawares.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 11 June 2021
• Here Bluebaum is caught unawares and does not fully appreciate the dangers 3...
  — Chris Chase, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2018
• Herbert also said he had been caught unawares by the attorney general’s actions.
  — Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
• During the second wave, villages in India were caught unawares, with severe underreporting of both cases and Covid-19 deaths.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2021
• Sure enough, Trinity was caught unawares, and audiences everywhere were gagged.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2 July 2018
• Lawmakers in Arizona also appear to have been caught unawares by the Trump announcement, according to the Arizona Republic.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2020
• At a Republican rally in August, Johnson was caught unawares by Windsor, who quizzed him about the 2020 presidential contest.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2021
• Over the past 30 years, we have been caught unawares by bovine tuberculosis in African lions, canine distemper virus in Siberian seals and tigers, and leprosy in North American armadillos.
  — Stephen Harrison, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2016
• The Senate, seemingly caught unawares, initially refused to accept delivery of the subpoenaed material for lack of a secure place to store it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2021
• China was caught unawares by a disease that was evidently spreading for a month or more in Wuhan before anyone noticed; the country’s frantic learning now is helping save the lives everywhere of the sickest cases.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
• But Clark also wants to see lawmakers and political leaders get a head start in talking about Deepfake technologies so that they don’t get caught unawares by a political scandal.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Its violent, zero-to-hero power delivery could catch drivers unawares, knocking the car off-balance, then frequently backwards into a hedge.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
• On the other hand, Newcastle don't have a shortlist of managers prepared at all say the Times, with Benitez's impending departure catching them unawares, despite, y'know, being quite a while coming and very, very obvious.
  — SI.com, 25 June 2019
• His figures are fully animated, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and often, when captured unawares, deeply moving in their private reveries.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• The career of Marco Bellocchio has been extensive, fertile, and constantly capable of taking us unawares.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• From my perspective, there’s no excuse for being caught unawares, and clinging to the easier or cheaper option is a far riskier business decision than exploring other avenues now.
  — Sjoerd Fauser, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• But it’s here in the good old U.S. of A. that Azerbaijan has had the greatest success covertly influencing policy and policymakers, with both constituents and regulators caught unawares.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2022
• To deter customers from doing research—to reconstruct the gloriously profitable world of information asymmetry—companies need to catch them unawares.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024