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Example sentences for "unknowingly"

Lexicographically close words:
unknightly; unknit; unknowable; unknowen; unknowing; unknown; unknowne; unknowns; unknownst; unlace
  1. Thus did the High Priests, unknowingly to themselves, leave the true Paschal Lamb.

  2. I besought her to pardon me for having thus unknowingly alarmed and grieved her.

  3. And yet most persons unknowingly include under this single appellation several distinct herbs.

  4. Struck with remorse, he sprang from his horse, threw himself upon his knees, and with many tears implored pardon of God for the sin he had unknowingly committed.

  5. She beheld in him the gallant Abadil, whom she had once welcomed with his bride to her castle, but who now came with the body of her lord, whom he had unknowingly slain in battle!

  6. At low water the next morning the shoals were exposed, and showed us the dangers we had unknowingly encountered in passing over them when they were covered.

  7. We then pursued our way up the river; it soon trended sharply round to the South-East and joined the main stream which we had unknowingly left the preceding evening.

  8. Perhaps, upon the whole, good honest dullness does unknowingly inflict more grievous wounds than the barbed satiric tongue.

  9. But, though strongly attracted by her instinctive, girlish wiles, he was also, quite unknowingly to her, repelled by those same wiles.

  10. So she, Laura, had allowed herself to slip into a close, intimate relationship which, all unknowingly to her, had proved most dangerous to him.

  11. For the things we avoid when sober, we unknowingly commit through drunkenness.

  12. For children baptized before coming to the use of reason, afterwards when they come to perfect age, might easily be persuaded by their parents to renounce what they had unknowingly embraced; and this would be detrimental to the faith.

  13. During the return journey, an officer who accompanied me showed himself unknowingly above the parapet, and "zipp" came a bullet, which ripped one of the stars off his coat.

  14. I had unknowingly placed myself in the danger zone which forms a semi-circle on either side of the muzzle when fired, the force being at times so great as to tear trees up by the roots and send them crashing to the ground.

  15. Brook shrugged unknowingly and smiled as he delivered a quick-witted answer.

  16. Dearborne and Empal said their farewells and he asked her if she will be back on the fifth day, as usual, but she shrugged unknowingly and smiled a good-bye at him.

  17. Can you not see it is simply to save you from making the most awful mistake a girl can make in all her life when she unknowingly marries such a man?

  18. While unknowingly laying the foundations of tyrannies and providing the human tinder for racial conflagrations, woman was also unknowingly creating slums, filling asylums with insane, and institutions with other defectives.

  19. Then craving a cup of wine, he poured it out in secret libation to the gods, who had put into the mind of Demodocus unknowingly to do him so much honour.

  20. He started, his big hand trembling, for though he had come to kill, he unknowingly wanted to hear some word from Randerson's lips in proof of his innocence.

  21. Owen wondered if Dorgan were one of those misguided persons who take offense at a look unknowingly given, or a word, spoken during momentary abstraction.

  22. All unknowingly Marcia had placed herself where the light from the window fell full across her face, and every flitting expression as she followed the undulant sounds was visible.

  23. Good morning,” he said gravely, studying her face as he might have studied some poor waif whom he had unknowingly run over in the night and picked up to resuscitate.

  24. Go away and watch Alice so that she may unknowingly lead you to Montrose's burrow.

  25. Let the little folks early learn that the home is theirs to enjoy and that their little friends are welcome; and thus you may be spared such a reproof as one little lad of four unknowingly gave his mamma.

  26. Indeed his red and perspiring face showed a couple of great, black smirches with which he had unknowingly beautified himself.

  27. Not that I loved Olga less, or had forgotten, but all unknowingly I had been striving to be more worthy of her memory.

  28. They instantly resolved to send over a band of men for the purpose of carrying off Barbara, and of leaving behind on the island the dangerous young Englishman who was unknowingly wooing a princess.

  29. After their departure Paul observed a little book lying on the floor of the balcony near the table where the two men had been sitting, and concluded that it had been unknowingly dropped by one of them.

  30. She blinked ruefully at the memory of the day she had unknowingly tried to sharpen a dampened stick, and shredded it instead, thereby incurring the wrath of Ibi.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unknowingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.