How to Use unsuspecting in a Sentence

unsuspecting

adjective

• To the unsuspecting eye, half of the brick building at 117 Elm St. is empty.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• The end of your bed is a perfect and unsuspecting spot to fit in more storage.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2022
• The duet isn’t the first time that Martin has dropped in on an unsuspecting fan as of late, either.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2022
• He got rid of the truck, gifting it to an unsuspecting niece the next morning.
  — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
• And the higher the rewards, the bigger the cost to the unsuspecting people paying for it.
  — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• Ticks stretch out their first set of legs and latch onto the unsuspecting host.
  — Maria Masters, Health, 9 June 2024
• Gas was shut off to unsuspecting tenants, and the problems stretched from days to weeks to months.
  — jsonline.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• The boyfriend, who is 33, and his two unsuspecting girlfriends all work in health care and live in Las Vegas.
  — Avery Kleinman, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
• The video shows the reptile sneak up on an unsuspecting duck and chomp down on the waterfowl as the men watch from a distance.
  — Fox News, 30 Nov. 2020
• The scheme: steal boats from their slips up and down the coast, disguise them and rename them for sale to unsuspecting buyers.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• The suspect pulls a gun out from behind her back and shoots the unsuspecting woman, with her back turned, in the head at point-blank range.
  — Will McDuffie, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2021
• The most common threat is the ocean, with rip currents and waves that can suck an unsuspecting swimmer out to sea.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
• Here's a list of some unsuspecting movies that fall into the Christmas genre.
  — Giulia Heyward and Alfonso Serrano, CNN, 29 Nov. 2020
• The trend began with people egging the foreheads of unsuspecting adults.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• To the point, A&M warned unsuspecting visitors to the press box with a printout to not be alarmed by the structure moving during the war hymn.
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Aug. 2022
• These larvae swim to the single species that serves as their unsuspecting host: a mollusk such as a snail or limpet.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
• Larkin then gets to his feet, finds Joseph, and swings wildly, punching the unsuspecting Joseph in the face with a gloved hand with sufficient force to knock him to the ice.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
• The Record is a huge leap from the original six-song EP that boygenius dropped on an unsuspecting world in 2018.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023
• This is not the first time Sheeran has surprised unsuspecting fans.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
• The unsuspecting guests were discreetly kept away from a fake brick wall.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2021
• But when that happens, their chances of sneaking up on an unsuspecting seal are slim.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
• But don't place the feeder under strong branches that can be used by cats who may lie in wait for unsuspecting birds.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2021
• And this unsuspecting couple just living their lives is about to have a monster at their door.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2021
• Later, one unsuspecting fella makes the most of his one-on-one time, baring it all in his attempt to woo Michelle.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 2 Nov. 2021
• These nights did not happen to the 2019 Ravens, who were blessed with good health and hit unsuspecting opponents like they were shot out of a howitzer.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• And sometimes the bomb was just a naked stick of dynamite with a fuse simple enough to be lit with the strike of a match, ready to be flung into an unsuspecting crowd.
  — Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024
• These belts of seawater, which can be wider than a four-lane highway, cut through the surf and flow away from the shore, pulling unsuspecting bathers beyond their depth.
  — Chloe Williams, The Atlantic, 20 June 2022
• As deaths of unsuspecting users soar, red-state politicians have rallied around this cause.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Nic and his unsuspecting girlfriend, Laura, walked up to Dodd, who was seated at her typewriter.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
• Eleven teenage boys in Illinois have been charged with several felonies for allegedly using an online dating app to lure unsuspecting men to meetups and beating them, police said.
  — Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025