unbeknown

How To Use unbeknown In A Sentence

• There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.
• Unbeknown to you the real motive is to question you in order to undermine your position.
• James Ponsoldt: This notion is at the core of Killer of Sheep: what it means to be an adult, and how children learn and internalize grown-up behavior and responsibilities through lectures, through tears, but mostly by silently observing, peeking around corners, usually unbeknownst to their parents. GreenCine Daily: Filmmaker. Spring 07.
• Unbeknownst to her father, she began taking dancing lessons.
• But unbeknown to his family, he had packed extra items in his work bag including socks, a pair of trainers and some hair gel.
• Unbeknownst to the vast majority of straphangers, the humble MetroCard is essentially a floppy disk, uniquely identified by a serial number on the flip side.
• But, unbeknown to his grieving colleagues above, the plucky soldier had managed to discover a pocket of air - after making an amazing 90 ft dive completely unaided.
• Unbeknownst to me, the bib that got put so swiftly around my neck when I arrived, turned out to be attached by leads to the back of my chair and I nearly garroted myself. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
• Thus unbeknown to the competitors, the last valid part of the competition was removed four days before the submission date.
• But unbeknownst to the townspeople, he's actually their old sheriff, bullwhipped to death in the streets like a dog.