How to Use unsuspecting in a Sentence

unsuspecting

adjective

• To the unsuspecting eye, half of the brick building at 117 Elm St. is empty.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• The end of your bed is a perfect and unsuspecting spot to fit in more storage.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 6 Dec. 2022
• The duet isn’t the first time that Martin has dropped in on an unsuspecting fan as of late, either.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2022
• The boyfriend, who is 33, and his two unsuspecting girlfriends all work in health care and live in Las Vegas.
  — Avery Kleinman, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
• The trend began with people egging the foreheads of unsuspecting adults.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• To the point, A&M warned unsuspecting visitors to the press box with a printout to not be alarmed by the structure moving during the war hymn.
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Aug. 2022
• The Record is a huge leap from the original six-song EP that boygenius dropped on an unsuspecting world in 2018.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023
• This is not the first time Sheeran has surprised unsuspecting fans.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
• These belts of seawater, which can be wider than a four-lane highway, cut through the surf and flow away from the shore, pulling unsuspecting bathers beyond their depth.
  — Chloe Williams, The Atlantic, 20 June 2022
• As deaths of unsuspecting users soar, red-state politicians have rallied around this cause.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Children wrapped up bricks as presents and left them in public places in 1906, waiting for unsuspecting victims to try to pick them up.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• Yet even a resort fee of $20 a day, on the low end of the spectrum, can come as a nasty surprise to an unsuspecting traveler come checkout time.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Like a deliverer of a high five to the face, that tiny powerhouse packs an unsuspecting punch.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• This sea snake often buries itself in the sand, with just its head peeking out, waiting to ambush unsuspecting prey.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
• In this case, the sales are done to win new tokens rather than to pump up nonfungible token prices to lure unsuspecting buyers.
  — Olga Kharif, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2022
• Around the same time Jim and Bruce decided, just for the thrill of lawlessness, to rob an unsuspecting lady walking along a Glasgow street.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• No, this isn't the family-friendly Michael Keaton movie of the same name, though some unsuspecting '90s kids may have been traumatized after renting the wrong video.
  — Huntley Woods, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the trailer, his unsuspecting wife, played by Michelle Monaghan, yearns for a more adventurous life.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
• Once the soldier acting as a lookout fled, the guerrilla entered the camp, threw grenades at and opened fire into the tents of unsuspecting Israeli soldiers.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• Musk has dumped billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock on an unsuspecting market in an attempt to finance the deal, most recently at the start of this month.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• It was washed, bullet holes were stitched up and it was carefully folded to be re-issued to an unsuspecting recruit.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• In one of the more stunning images the alligator appears to be lurking behind the unsuspecting pair.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
• Kline was arraigned last month on a charge of photographing an unsuspecting nude person.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• Ohatchee residents Gregg Poole and his wife were unsuspecting motorists who were at the end of one such stop Friday afternoon off of a rural back road in Ohatchee.
  — al, 26 Dec. 2022
• The term comes from an age-old trick in the antique trade: Put fragile items on teetering display and let an unsuspecting shopper’s clumsy reach knock them over.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Three years later, unsuspecting victims are still paying the price.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• The surveillance tape shows the attacker sprinting across the platform and clocking the unsuspecting victim.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• Set in a new city, Bird Box Barcelona expands the original film's plot and provides more context into the crisis that makes unsuspecting victims take their own lives.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 14 July 2023
• This deep, hot want to cause your unsuspecting follicles great damage?
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 4 May 2022
• When the English rejected him, Pujol instead applied to work for the Germans, who, unsuspecting, took him on and assigned him a mission to Britain.
  — Lucie Elven, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024