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Examples of unawares in a Sentence
the thunderstorm caught us unawares, and we scrambled to get off the ridge as lightning started to flash
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The drivers were taken unawares when empty cans and bottles showered them and one driver jumped in his cab and departed.
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Likewise, thousands of pedestrians walk unawares over dozens of old ships buried beneath the streets of the city’s financial district.
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Origin and Etymology of unawares
First Known Use: 1530
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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all of a sudden, off base;
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- “The danger is being caught unawares.”
- —Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
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