How to Use unbeknown to in a Sentence

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• And, unbeknown to the two boys, their moms had set up a reunion.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• And both of them start doing good deeds in the neighborhood, unbeknown to most people close to them.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 15 June 2022
• Their fears that Russia drafted large swathes of the document unbeknown to them were proved right.
  — Natalia Drozdiak, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
• And unbeknown to them, the FBI was watching their every step.
  — William Wan, Ian Shapira, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
• But quite unbeknown to me, Toor’s life in New York had opened up a new vein of material.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• For a while there, unbeknown to all but a few, there was a danger that hit country-pop duo Dan + Shay might go separate ways.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Lupe also filmed her part in the series through the first five months of her pregnancy, unbeknown to Bell and the rest of the production.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
• The two men got separated and unbeknown to Lord Dacres the second man killed someone while resisting arrest.
  — John Annese, Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2026
• The two men got separated and unbeknown to Lord Dacres the second man killed someone while resisting arrest.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
• In the packet were two sheets of carbonless copy paper that, unbeknown to participants, created an imprint of their writing.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2014
• But unbeknown to its signatories at the time, the agreement was also an unexpected ward against climate catastrophe.
  — J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2023
• But in taking the class, the workers — largely unbeknown to them — are also helping to fund a nationwide lobbying campaign to keep their own wages from increasing.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Most of the people who overdosed in those cases had used cocaine or counterfeit prescription pills that, unbeknown to them, were laced with fentanyl, authorities said.
  — Hyeyoon Alyssa Choi, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• But unbeknown to many, the global economy was undergoing a major structural change that was making supply rather than demand the real problem.
  — Mohamed A. El-Erian, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2022
• The season ends with Emily and Gabriel hooking up…again, completely unbeknown to Camille, who's been nothing but a friend to Emily.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2020
• But unlike antique cars, say, which can't be hidden for decades in the basement of one's home, antique fishing lures and reels can be packed away and appreciating in value for years, unbeknown to their owners.
  — Ezra Marcus New York Times, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• In the documentary, the filmmakers zero in on heart-tugging individual stories, like the mother and daughter who each wrote letters, unbeknown to each other.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• However, unbeknown to Theresa and Elissa, Brendan had been working hard over the previous year to earn a 39-day home visit.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• Toxic release facilities are corporate sites that regularly release toxins into the surrounding land, air, and water — and often unbeknown to surrounding communities.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 28 June 2022
• La'An, meanwhile, starts to exhibit the dictatorial traits of the warmongering Romulans, who — unbeknown to most of the Federation — split off from the Vulcans to go their own way a few millennia previously.
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025