How to Use unwitting in a Sentence

unwitting

adjective
  • He kept the truth from his unwitting friends.
  • But please spare both the niece and the unwitting nephew a lecture.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Prices can gyrate and that can leave unwitting customers in a bind.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • In a sense, the crows are treating these unwitting mammals as tools.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Simba, too naive for his own good, becomes an unwitting pawn.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019
  • The app took in data from those users’ unwitting friends, leading to a pool of millions.
    — Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • At first, it was being sold mixed with heroin to unwitting buyers.
    — Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Happily, he’s still involved with a club that played an unwitting role in his first big break.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This potentially prompts even more unwitting users to join in the scheme.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 7 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Catherine is a femme fatale, and Jonathan is her unwitting prey.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
  • That led to sharp credit score drops for many unwitting borrowers.
    — Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The player has in fact become an unwitting hero to the anti-vax movement.
    — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 16 Jan. 2022
  • This group has become an unwitting support system for me, and a touchstone to her.
    — Rebecca Soffer, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Some investors say the scheme turned them into unwitting slumlords.
    — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2019
  • This is a tomb of horrors unleashed by a pair of unwitting explorers.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Rayner claimed her mistake was unwitting and based on poor legal advice.
    — Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • On the other side of the cup, a sniper, hugging the burlap tablecloth with his prone body, prepares to take out the unwitting dog.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The drone swooped past the initially unwitting soldier and opened fire with both of its shotgun barrels.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Now the unwitting victims have to worry about the threat of having their identities stolen.
    — Michael Liedtke, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Vowls tried to distract the men with knives and warn the unwitting neighborhood filled with crowded restaurants and bars.
    — Lori Hinnant, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
  • And Mirai had an unwitting ally in the botnet war then raging.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • Each one offers something different but all have the same mission — to scare the hell out of its unwitting victims.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • They have been written to guide the unwitting discoverer through this minefield.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 June 2026
  • The teenagers living on the margins in Kuala Lumpur could not be more powerless or unwitting.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • But Harper came out like a man possessed Friday night against the unwitting Phillies.
    — Scott Lauber, Philly.com, 5 May 2018
  • The network had tricked unwitting American writers to post content to the pages.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2020
  • 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

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