How to Use unknowing in a Sentence

unknowing

adjective
  • That laugh was what sparked Horan to pen a song about the unknowing girl.
    — Chris Malone, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Time and time again, the unknowing and the innocent were blamed for death.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 21 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
  • 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
  • One of the strongest scenes in this episode is Maeve teaching the unknowing captive Sam how to swim.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The ordeal, which lasted for a matter of seconds, merely looks awkward to the unknowing eye.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 14 July 2018
  • The detective, once the exemplar of reason, drifts here into a fog of unknowing.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But killer Gabriel is the unknowing Madison-slash-Emily’s tumor-slash-twin.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The video is painful to watch, but instructive in the history of white American willful unknowing.
    — Nell Irvin Painter, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Years earlier, at the time of the stage production, someone captured the two of them fresh faced, standing next to each other, an unknowing sign of what was to come.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • So how did the client, originally from Nebraska, become the unknowing owner of such valuable pieces?
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 14 June 2017
  • After all, the other couple had played an unknowing but crucial role in bringing David and Jackie together.
    — CNN, 21 May 2021
  • 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
  • Prosecutors repeatedly cast the purchasers of Pugh’s books as unknowing victims of her scheme.
    — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among the participants in these annual IRL rites of spring lurks unknowing spreaders of disease.
    — Tasneem Alsultan, National Geographic, 23 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • In fact, the project, whose premise depended on sustaining a false reality for one unknowing star, inherently risked self-destruction.
    — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Except for when defending their young, winter is the time when moose often lose their patience and become aggravated with either unknowing or uncaring folks who approach too close, or stay in their space to long.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2020
  • The new season takes place at the fictional Oak Canyon Ranch Retreat, providing more areas for the cast — and thus more places for their unknowing star to roam.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
  • Once Cowell was positioned on the floor, Amberlynn instructed an unknowing Vergara to pull the trigger.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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