How to Use unknowing in a Sentence

unknowing

1 of 2 adjective

• Time and time again, the unknowing and the innocent were blamed for death.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• That laugh was what sparked Horan to pen a song about the unknowing girl.
  — Chris Malone, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
• But, all good things must come to an end, and Vivian plays an unknowing hand in the theater's hard fall from grace.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Aug. 2019
• If someone came in unknowing or hadn’t learned yet, sometimes they would get piled up on.
  — Tamar Fox, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
• Frankly, so much unknowing is being dished out here that nobody’s going to have room for the risotto.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• An unknowing heir to a throne and a talented young sword smith discover their fates. 7:30 p.m. May 8.
  — Denise Davidson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• But killer Gabriel is the unknowing Madison-slash-Emily’s tumor-slash-twin.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• The ordeal, which lasted for a matter of seconds, merely looks awkward to the unknowing eye.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 14 July 2018
• The video is painful to watch, but instructive in the history of white American willful unknowing.
  — Nell Irvin Painter, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
• During the 2010 makeover, Lidstrom and the club set off a minor panic among unknowing patrons when the stars disappeared without warning under a coat of primer.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
• Laura became an unknowing accessory to Barbish’s schemes, all the while believing equally in the legends of the pearl and the man.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• And the story didn’t specify whether the contract was knowing or unknowing, like what the nature of it was, but the headline was incredibly damning, right?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 18 Oct. 2018
• By saying upfront that the Play Store doesn’t have Fortnite, Google is attempting to protect unknowing users who might download some malicious clone of the app.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
• The Hydroxydase, from the Auvergne, was without taste to my unknowing senses but so rich in minerals that it is sold in pharmacies.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 3 May 2018
• The focus is on a few sentences of what an unknowing audience member would believe to be recorded audio of Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• Among the participants in these annual IRL rites of spring lurks unknowing spreaders of disease.
  — Tasneem Alsultan, National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2020
• After all, the other couple had played an unknowing but crucial role in bringing David and Jackie together.
  — CNN, 21 May 2021
• So how did the client, originally from Nebraska, become the unknowing owner of such valuable pieces?
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 14 June 2017
• So how did the client, originally from Nebraska, become the unknowing owner of such valuable pieces?
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 14 June 2017
• Even as one strives for high achievement, there are some dimensions of daily life that require equilibrium, the acceptance of dark and light, knowledge and unknowing, give and take.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 2 June 2017
• And because the United States is one of the largest seafood markets in the world, American consumers play an unknowing role in perpetuating pirate fishing.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
• In all those cases, troopers said, Taylor would allegedly have an unknowing third party order a ride-hail vehicle for him and then have the driver take him to the Massport parking lot where the first crime took place.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• Once Cowell was positioned on the floor, Amberlynn instructed an unknowing Vergara to pull the trigger.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
• In case of a divorce, the spouse, not having given the other spouse notice, nor obtaining, in writing, an agreement, will be responsible for restitution to the unknowing spouse.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 July 2020
• All of this is tucked behind a traditional mews-style entrance on Adam’s Row that an unknowing passerby may not give a second glance, which would explain the appeal for the first guest here--a celebrated actor in town to film a movie.
  — Rima Suqi, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
• Sarah Gadon stars as Grace Marks, who in 1843 was convicted of double homicide — although debate has lasted over whether or not Marks actually played a role in the murders or was just an unknowing witness.
  — Ethan Sapienza, The Cut, 24 July 2017
• The author thinks a lot about the forces and perspectives — personal, political and historical; conscious and unknowing — that shape us.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Prosecutors repeatedly cast the purchasers of Pugh’s books as unknowing victims of her scheme.
  — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• The result was that thousands of unknowing carriers spread the viral plague while the government covered up its epidemic proportions.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• The fact that partygoers did not know they had been exposed for multiple days allowed for unknowing transmission, according to Choi.
  — Anna Sturla, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020

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unknowing

2 of 2 noun

• In the process, Debussy opened opera up to the unknowing.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The knowing against the unknowing was the hardest part.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• In a lot of ways, that magic relies on a façade of unknowing.
  — Keely Larson, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• The Astros will now hit the road for the first time this season, hoping that the vengeance tour is over, but unknowing of what lies ahead.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• LeVox does just that, leaving the questions and the unknowing all in His hands.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• But the big fish keeps its mouth open for a time, no more or less wide than a large sound or fjord, and unknowing and unheeding, the fish rush in in their numbers.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• For this is a world in which all sense seems exhausted, and to him—to those listening to him—that quiet is loud with unknowing.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• One of the pleasures of this book is its resistance to a clear and comforting verdict, its desire to dwell in unknowing.
  — Maya Chung, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2022
• Then, without preamble, the story cuts off, leaving us in a cloud of unknowing.
  — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• And it’s about being stuck and being alone and floating in mystery, confusion, or unknowing.
  — Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
• Though every James novel is a drama of knowledge, Washington Square presents us with the romance of unknowing.
  — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• Stoppard uses content and structure to point to a playwright whom many in the audience will not know, and even this unknowing is important.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• This may seem a contradiction, but that’s the point: that life can’t help but confound us, that what centers us, paradoxically, is our unknowing, that the line is always blurred between present and past.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The film follows one group of mothers on their annual brigade to scour the migrant trail in Mexico, and immerses us in the emotional reality of their search: a fog of unknowing.
  — The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
• Lee dates the dawning of the play to 1993, when Stoppard, in conversation with a visiting cousin, was informed—to his amazement, and to the cousin’s disbelief at his unknowing—that his roots were entirely Jewish.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Some bees are cleptoparasites, sneaking into unoccupied nests to lay eggs, in the same way that cowbirds lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and let the unknowing foster parents rear their chicks.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• Sophie has recently turned eleven, and Corio poises her, with startling assurance, on the threshold between unknowing and knowing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
• Many were going to perhaps use this departure as a regrouping of their own priorities, and there was just an ugly feeling of unknowing and trepidation that is still with me.
  — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Even with all the shock, disappointment and living with the constant unknowing of when his hospitality spaces would open, or be closed down again, Jesse feels pretty lucky considering what so many others have gone through.
  — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Viewers are thrust into a space of unknowing, making their own associations.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Decisions made and actions taken are always the product of human hesitation and unknowing.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• Questioning with a hostile, aggressive or accusatory inflection may please and excite those who are alienated by or unknowing of religious life in America.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• The country’s hesitation to apologize stems from questions of liability, guilt, and simple unknowing.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
• Provisionality, incompleteness and unknowing are so fundamental to your work.
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the process, Debussy opened opera up to the unknowing.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The knowing against the unknowing was the hardest part.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• In a lot of ways, that magic relies on a façade of unknowing.
  — Keely Larson, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• The Astros will now hit the road for the first time this season, hoping that the vengeance tour is over, but unknowing of what lies ahead.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• LeVox does just that, leaving the questions and the unknowing all in His hands.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• But the big fish keeps its mouth open for a time, no more or less wide than a large sound or fjord, and unknowing and unheeding, the fish rush in in their numbers.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024