How to Use unprovoked in a Sentence

unprovoked

adjective

• The July 10 clash is the latest in a series of unprovoked stranger attacks to hit the city, cops said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
• Of those unprovoked bites, 41 occurred in the United States.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 23 July 2023
• Both victims relied on the the train or bus, and were killed in an unprovoked attack.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
• There’s a fear of getting on the train because there’s been a rash of unprovoked attacks.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 23 Mar. 2021
• This is not the first time Russian media has been hacked since the country waged an unprovoked war in Ukraine.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 June 2022
• Florida is the top U.S. state with the most unprovoked bites, with 16 cases.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2024
• Florida is home to the most cases of unprovoked shark attacks in not just the United States but the world.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 2 July 2022
• The state accounted for five unprovoked attacks last year, the file says.
  — Erick Mendoza, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2023
• Out of fear, the victim did not report the unprovoked attacks, the filing said.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 25 May 2021
• Metro sources said the attack appeared to have been unprovoked.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• Police have counted 38 unprovoked assaults in Midtown South in the first five months of the year, up from nine in the same time last year.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• Of those unprovoked bites, 41 occurred in the United States.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 23 July 2024
• Last year, Australia had the second-highest number of unprovoked shark bites in the world – with the U.S. being first.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
• As of last week, there have been 11 unprovoked assaults recorded in the city, McCarthy said.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
• Nor is there likely to be any change to Britain's support for Ukraine in its unprovoked war with Russia.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
• If Pearl Harbor was an unprovoked face punch, then Hiroshima was the kick in the balls to end all future wars.
  — Noah Hawley, The Atlantic, 2 July 2025
• Last month, seven dogs mauled a 71-year-old man to death in an unprovoked attack in Texas, police said.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2022
• The victim said in a police report that the attack was unprovoked.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
• Ukraine and the West say Russia launched an unprovoked war of aggression.
  — Fox News, 8 May 2022
• In June, a A 66-year-old man was fatally mauled by a black bear in an unprovoked attack in Arizona.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2023
• At the same time in Georgia right now, there are three men who are on trial, charged with the unprovoked killing of a Black man, Ahmaud Arbery.
  — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2021
• William hauls off and punches Ian, unprovoked, and then turns him over to the redcoats, before forcibly kissing Rachel.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
• Also on the rise are unprovoked attacks, with five occurring in a 10-day stint in May.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
• On one of these drives, my mother mentioned Dylan unprovoked for the first and only time.
  — Sam Sussman, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• The 28 unprovoked shark bites in the U.S. was down from 36 unprovoked bites during the previous year.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
• Florida continues to see the most unprovoked bites out of any other state in the U.S.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2022
• In general, unprovoked shark bites have decreased over the past decade.
  — Jennifer Earl, CBS News, 5 July 2023
• An unhinged man slashed three strangers in a string of unprovoked attacks that began on a Queens train, cops and police sources said.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
• The animal was not wounded, and the safari outfitter Watkins was hunting with said the fatal attack was sudden and unprovoked.
  — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2025
• More than three years into Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, the Kremlin’s political vice is tightening again.
  — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 11 July 2025