How to Use unwitting in a Sentence

unwitting

adjective

• He kept the truth from his unwitting friends.
• The unwitting hero of the book - the heart and soul - is pitcher Herb Score.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• Most of the 11 who will appear insist their help in the mass killings was unwitting.
  — Lori Hinnant and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020
• Kyle Mulinder was the unwitting victim of the seal's crime.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2018
• In a sense, the crows are treating these unwitting mammals as tools.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2017
• Since the 2010s, there is evidence that the compound has been sold as LSD to unwitting users.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The app took in data from those users’ unwitting friends, leading to a pool of millions.
  — Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• Prices can gyrate and that can leave unwitting customers in a bind.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The player has in fact become an unwitting hero to the anti-vax movement.
  — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 16 Jan. 2022
• In the process of rooting out the truths from the half-truths and the unknowables, Daniel becomes the trial’s unwitting centerpiece.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• This potentially prompts even more unwitting users to join in the scheme.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 7 Feb. 2023
• The teenagers living on the margins in Kuala Lumpur could not be more powerless or unwitting.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• So, now Carolyn knows… and so does Konstantin, who used the unwitting Geraldine to plant a bug in Carolyn's home.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2020
• Presumably, someone was on the unwitting end of a prank.
  — Shawn Smajstrla, star-telegram, 22 Mar. 2018
• But Harper came out like a man possessed Friday night against the unwitting Phillies.
  — Scott Lauber, Philly.com, 5 May 2018
• The film’s got all the stereotypes of a European country and an unwitting American as the lead.
  — Natalie Lin, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2021
• Otherwise get a blog or write a book so at least the unwitting reader knows what’s coming.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
• And the fact that Facebook enabled users to give away their friends’ data as well meant that the data leak swept up millions of unwitting users.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 3 May 2018
• Now the unwitting victims have to worry about the threat of having their identities stolen.
  — Michael Liedtke, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• This group has become an unwitting support system for me, and a touchstone to her.
  — Rebecca Soffer, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
• The unwitting victim opened the door and let Jung inside her home, where Jung allegedly stabbed her with a knife, police said.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
• Through a fortuitous run in and an unwitting joke with one of the salon’s owners, Michelle Carter, who just so happened to be the sister of Shawn Carter.
  — Deidre Dyer, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2022
• As a result, tens of millions of Ukrainians have become the unwitting hostages in Putin’s attempt to wrest a better deal.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2022
• This is a tomb of horrors unleashed by a pair of unwitting explorers.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2020
• Simba, too naive for his own good, becomes an unwitting pawn.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
• The network had tricked unwitting American writers to post content to the pages.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2020
• At first, it was being sold mixed with heroin to unwitting buyers.
  — Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019
• These agencies, in turn, viewed Mr. Trump as a witting or unwitting Kremlin agent.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• In light of the past week’s fixations, I’m tempted to think of the New York essay as an unwitting wrench in the conservative dogma uniting those other two pet controversies.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
• Along the way to fixing the infrastructure problems, Deb Hatley became an unwitting social media star, as her TikTok reels showcasing the resort transformation went viral.
  — David Hochman, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024