unawares

How To Use unawares In A Sentence

• Och, sad mishanter! On the stairs Pate bursts upon them unawares.
• None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares. John Halifax, Gentleman
• Investors and currency dealers were caught completely unawares by the Bundesbank's action.
• To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth. The Naturalist in La Plata
• He came into the room so quietly that he took me unawares.
• rain caught them unawares
• But what caught her unawares was the horrid thing that by this fact of sudden, unexpected waking she had surprised these other things in the room, beside the very bed, gathered close about him while he slept. The Man Whom the Trees Loved
• So, when Japan's real-estate bubble burst and the economy flatlined for over a decade, the world was caught unawares.
• That's why the droop and crinkle of middle-age is the source of such gloom, particularly as it has a nasty habit of catching you unawares.
• He left the pen on the table unawares.