How to Use unknowing in a Sentence

unknowing

1 of 2 adjective

• That laugh was what sparked Horan to pen a song about the unknowing girl.
  — Chris Malone, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
• Time and time again, the unknowing and the innocent were blamed for death.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• If someone came in unknowing or hadn’t learned yet, sometimes they would get piled up on.
  — Tamar Fox, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
• Frankly, so much unknowing is being dished out here that nobody’s going to have room for the risotto.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• But, all good things must come to an end, and Vivian plays an unknowing hand in the theater's hard fall from grace.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Aug. 2019
• One of the strongest scenes in this episode is Maeve teaching the unknowing captive Sam how to swim.
  — Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
• The ordeal, which lasted for a matter of seconds, merely looks awkward to the unknowing eye.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 14 July 2018
• The detective, once the exemplar of reason, drifts here into a fog of unknowing.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• But killer Gabriel is the unknowing Madison-slash-Emily’s tumor-slash-twin.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• The video is painful to watch, but instructive in the history of white American willful unknowing.
  — Nell Irvin Painter, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
• Years earlier, at the time of the stage production, someone captured the two of them fresh faced, standing next to each other, an unknowing sign of what was to come.
  — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
• So how did the client, originally from Nebraska, become the unknowing owner of such valuable pieces?
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 14 June 2017
• After all, the other couple had played an unknowing but crucial role in bringing David and Jackie together.
  — CNN, 21 May 2021
• And the story didn’t specify whether the contract was knowing or unknowing, like what the nature of it was, but the headline was incredibly damning, right?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 18 Oct. 2018
• Prosecutors repeatedly cast the purchasers of Pugh’s books as unknowing victims of her scheme.
  — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Even as one strives for high achievement, there are some dimensions of daily life that require equilibrium, the acceptance of dark and light, knowledge and unknowing, give and take.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 2 June 2017
• The result was that thousands of unknowing carriers spread the viral plague while the government covered up its epidemic proportions.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• Among the participants in these annual IRL rites of spring lurks unknowing spreaders of disease.
  — Tasneem Alsultan, National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2020
• Laura became an unknowing accessory to Barbish’s schemes, all the while believing equally in the legends of the pearl and the man.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• The fact that partygoers did not know they had been exposed for multiple days allowed for unknowing transmission, according to Choi.
  — Anna Sturla, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020
• The Hydroxydase, from the Auvergne, was without taste to my unknowing senses but so rich in minerals that it is sold in pharmacies.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 3 May 2018
• The author thinks a lot about the forces and perspectives — personal, political and historical; conscious and unknowing — that shape us.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• In fact, the project, whose premise depended on sustaining a false reality for one unknowing star, inherently risked self-destruction.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• In case of a divorce, the spouse, not having given the other spouse notice, nor obtaining, in writing, an agreement, will be responsible for restitution to the unknowing spouse.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 July 2020
• Except for when defending their young, winter is the time when moose often lose their patience and become aggravated with either unknowing or uncaring folks who approach too close, or stay in their space to long.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2020
• The new season takes place at the fictional Oak Canyon Ranch Retreat, providing more areas for the cast — and thus more places for their unknowing star to roam.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
• Once Cowell was positioned on the floor, Amberlynn instructed an unknowing Vergara to pull the trigger.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
• The focus is on a few sentences of what an unknowing audience member would believe to be recorded audio of Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2021
• During the 2010 makeover, Lidstrom and the club set off a minor panic among unknowing patrons when the stars disappeared without warning under a coat of primer.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
• By saying upfront that the Play Store doesn’t have Fortnite, Google is attempting to protect unknowing users who might download some malicious clone of the app.
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018

unknowing

2 of 2 noun

• And there seems to be no way to breach the walls of the unknowing self.
  — Mark Lilla, Harper's Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
• What if at the end of all this there is simply more unknowing?
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• In a lot of ways, that magic relies on a façade of unknowing.
  — Keely Larson, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• Spy fiction teeters along that line of knowing and unknowing.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• The scent folded into the fabric may no longer be detectable to the unknowing nose.
  — Terrance Hayes, The New York Review of Books, 29 June 2023
• But the unknowing offense does not justify your treating it as a high insult.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
• Often, however, many of us out of nervousness or unknowing, choose to stay silent, rather than share.
  — Matt Abrahams, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
• Then, without preamble, the story cuts off, leaving us in a cloud of unknowing.
  — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• LeVox does just that, leaving the questions and the unknowing all in His hands.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• For this is a world in which all sense seems exhausted, and to him—to those listening to him—that quiet is loud with unknowing.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• To show care to myself and to the people who live here and our continued questioning and unknowing.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 20 Sep. 2023
• The Astros will now hit the road for the first time this season, hoping that the vengeance tour is over, but unknowing of what lies ahead.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
• But the big fish keeps its mouth open for a time, no more or less wide than a large sound or fjord, and unknowing and unheeding, the fish rush in in their numbers.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• If anything, the adults have been a little bit irresponsible and kind of unknowing.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
• One of the pleasures of this book is its resistance to a clear and comforting verdict, its desire to dwell in unknowing.
  — Maya Chung, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2022
• Deer flies especially are relentless pests known to strike at any unknowing passerby which crosses their path.
  — Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
• Stoppard uses content and structure to point to a playwright whom many in the audience will not know, and even this unknowing is important.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• Viewers are thrust into a space of unknowing, making their own associations.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Though every James novel is a drama of knowledge, Washington Square presents us with the romance of unknowing.
  — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• Decisions made and actions taken are always the product of human hesitation and unknowing.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• Sophie has recently turned eleven, and Corio poises her, with startling assurance, on the threshold between unknowing and knowing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2022
• Some bees are cleptoparasites, sneaking into unoccupied nests to lay eggs, in the same way that cowbirds lay their eggs in other birds’ nests and let the unknowing foster parents rear their chicks.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• Many were going to perhaps use this departure as a regrouping of their own priorities, and there was just an ugly feeling of unknowing and trepidation that is still with me.
  — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The unknowing apprentice blabs about red hair and more to Cressida, who then takes the information to blackmail Penelope into paying her a huge sum.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 June 2024
• Efron plays a grown man who suddenly finds himself in his former teenage body, while Trachtenberg stars as his unknowing, romantically troubled daughter.
  — EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
• The country’s hesitation to apologize stems from questions of liability, guilt, and simple unknowing.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
• Questioning with a hostile, aggressive or accusatory inflection may please and excite those who are alienated by or unknowing of religious life in America.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• Even with all the shock, disappointment and living with the constant unknowing of when his hospitality spaces would open, or be closed down again, Jesse feels pretty lucky considering what so many others have gone through.
  — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Live in the mutability of photographic deception, but remain diligent, for the future is a playground of constant knowing and unknowing, unraveling and remaking.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
• Provisionality, incompleteness and unknowing are so fundamental to your work.
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022