Examples of unknowing in a Sentence
Adjective
those unknowing people who think that the world is a kindly place are in for a rude awakening
the poor woman has been the unknowing target of some pretty vicious gossip
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Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
As such, when Mia brings an innocent, unknowing stranger back to her apartment and begins to torture him, Dexter— witnessing the events unfold from across the street — calls authorities and Mia is arrested.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
This condition is what philosopher Charles Mills, speaking of the American context, labeled epistemological ignorance—a deliberate unknowing, an insistence on the myth of white superiority, of white exceptionalism.
—Christine Winter, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
The novel, after all, can be read today as an unknowing precursor to Interview with a Vampire or The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
As such, when Mia brings an innocent, unknowing stranger back to her apartment and begins to torture him, Dexter— witnessing the events unfold from across the street — calls authorities and Mia is arrested.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
The novel, after all, can be read today as an unknowing precursor to Interview with a Vampire or The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
This condition is what philosopher Charles Mills, speaking of the American context, labeled epistemological ignorance—a deliberate unknowing, an insistence on the myth of white superiority, of white exceptionalism.
—Christine Winter, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unknowing
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“Unknowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unknowing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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