How to Use unconscious in a Sentence
- He was knocked unconscious by a fall.
- She was unconscious for three days after the accident.
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The teen fell out, hit his head and was knocked unconscious.
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Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2026
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Much goes on in the unconscious mind.
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Andrea Gawrylewski,
Scientific American,
2 Sep. 2025
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Even our unconscious self wants to live.
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Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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She will not be known solely for what was done to her while unconscious.
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Gaby Wood,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
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Carter was unconscious, his best friend told his Dad on the phone.
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Kyle Werner,
Des Moines Register,
13 Feb. 2026
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Within an hour, jail records show, he was found unconscious in his cell.
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CBS News,
27 May 2026
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Where is the conscious mind and where is the unconscious mind in each of these scenes?
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Christian Wiman,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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One woman was unconscious and on the floor.
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Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2026
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So the idea of being inked up while unconscious didn’t bother him at all.
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John Semley,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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One of the teens fell off the vehicle and was knocked unconscious.
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Tim Fang,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Jokes and dreams are two of the best ways to reveal someone’s unconscious life.
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Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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To his left, a woman was lying on the ground unconscious.
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Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
8 Mar. 2026
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Shortly thereafter the pair was found unconscious on a park bench.
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Nick Tabor,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
29 Apr. 2026
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Pope was knocked unconscious and fell backwards, hitting his head on the ground.
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Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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The younger sisters were unconscious, but Storm was able to speak.
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Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Jail guards found Kelly unconscious on the floor of the cell with blood on his face.
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Joseph Wilkinson,
Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2025
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The lifeguards swam to the surfer, who was face down, unconscious and not breathing.
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Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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Hoang was knocked unconscious from the fall and the waves swept him into the ocean, police said.
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Gina Martinez,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2023
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An unconscious female adult was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2024
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Within an hour, guards found Rayo unconscious on his bed with a sheet around his neck.
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CBS News,
27 May 2026
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Real growth often lies in what’s still unconscious—truth over praise.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The pain almost knocked me unconscious.
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Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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One of the girls is then taken out of the car appearing to be unconscious.
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Somayeh Malekian,
ABC News,
3 Oct. 2023
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One of them, a teen, who was found unconscious, had to be airlifted from the top of the north hangar.
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Jonah Valdez,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Nov. 2023
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That was when the seizure occurred, making her fall unconscious.
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David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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Farès was found unconscious in a swimming pool last week and had been in a coma after.
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Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2026
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Emanuely was unconscious when police reached the crash site.
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Cameron MacDonald,
Mercury News,
18 Aug. 2025
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Your unconscious worked the alarm’s chime into your slumber.
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Ethan Beck,
Pitchfork,
12 May 2026
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The treasure, of course, was the cause of neurotic symptoms, deeply buried in the unconscious.
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Elizabeth Winkler,
The New Yorker,
23 June 2023
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Officers arrived at the scene in three minutes and found the 19-year-old unconscious with a wound to her stomach.
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Tim Fang,
CBS News,
21 Nov. 2025
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The unconscious doesn’t take direction.
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David O’Neill,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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Keaton is still funny, and manic, and growling, but not unsettling — not something to tug at your unconscious in your dreams or your waking hours.
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Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
5 Sep. 2024
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But conjuring up the Freudian unconscious in conversations with my kids keeps him close.
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Gillian Silverman,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2023
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Lillian once fought back with an iron skillet and beat Q unconscious, hospitalizing him.
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Jonathan Rowe,
SPIN,
1 June 2026
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The Freudian unconscious can be crude, a blunt instrument with which to make sense of everything from a bad day to irritation at a parent.
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Gillian Silverman,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2023
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The last thing Master Shen sees before his eyes close for the last time is Quan knocking An unconscious in about two seconds flat.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2024
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Kim posted updates nearly daily since then, several including videos of the 5-year-old unconscious in the hospital.
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Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
1 Jan. 2026
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Teen found unconscious in burning home Firefighters conducted a rapid search and found a 15-year-old unconscious on the second floor.
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Tony Aiello,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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In Florida, a high school student beat a paraprofessional unconscious.
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F. Chris Curran,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2023
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Suddenly your unconscious has a chance to free-associate and encode information that may not seem relevant until your mind starts tying it together.
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Jessica Dulong,
CNN,
23 Feb. 2024
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Before Clark is a threatening stack of chairs, desks, sofas, almost like the unconscious of the showroom itself has assembled some mocking shrine to the empire of failure that Clark’s life has become.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
27 May 2026
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In addition to his clinical work, my father was a researcher; his primary mission was to prove, empirically, the existence of the Freudian unconscious.
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Gillian Silverman,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2023
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Gates, who was Hicks' friend, eventually changed his story and told police that Hicks had knocked Rowe-Hicks unconscious, put her in the passenger seat of the car and drove it into the pond before jumping out.
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Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
19 June 2026
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The uncanniness of twisting the paraphernalia of daily life into something unfamiliar or strange satisfied the Surrealist desire to subvert convention and tap into the unconscious.
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Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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In confronting the banality of evil with his Klansmen of the ’60s and ’70s, perhaps Guston was excavating his own past in search of the raw American political unconscious.
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Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
4 June 2024
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Officers responded to a central Florida home and found the 28-year-old unconscious in a bedroom, according to the Casselberry Police Department.
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Dillon Mullan,
Baltimore Sun,
17 June 2023
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