How to Use unwitting in a Sentence
unwitting
adjective- He kept the truth from his unwitting friends.
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The unwitting hero of the book - the heart and soul - is pitcher Herb Score.
— Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021 -
Most of the 11 who will appear insist their help in the mass killings was unwitting.
— Lori Hinnant and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2020 -
Kyle Mulinder was the unwitting victim of the seal's crime.
— Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2018 -
Since the 2010s, there is evidence that the compound has been sold as LSD to unwitting users.
— Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023 -
Prices can gyrate and that can leave unwitting customers in a bind.
— Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021 -
The player has in fact become an unwitting hero to the anti-vax movement.
— Rod McGuirk, ajc, 16 Jan. 2022 -
In the process of rooting out the truths from the half-truths and the unknowables, Daniel becomes the trial’s unwitting centerpiece.
— Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023 -
This potentially prompts even more unwitting users to join in the scheme.
— Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 7 Feb. 2023 -
The teenagers living on the margins in Kuala Lumpur could not be more powerless or unwitting.
— Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020 -
So, now Carolyn knows… and so does Konstantin, who used the unwitting Geraldine to plant a bug in Carolyn's home.
— Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2020 -
The film’s got all the stereotypes of a European country and an unwitting American as the lead.
— Natalie Lin, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2021 -
This group has become an unwitting support system for me, and a touchstone to her.
— Rebecca Soffer, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019 -
The unwitting victim opened the door and let Jung inside her home, where Jung allegedly stabbed her with a knife, police said.
— Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023 -
Through a fortuitous run in and an unwitting joke with one of the salon’s owners, Michelle Carter, who just so happened to be the sister of Shawn Carter.
— Deidre Dyer, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2022 -
As a result, tens of millions of Ukrainians have become the unwitting hostages in Putin’s attempt to wrest a better deal.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2022 -
This is a tomb of horrors unleashed by a pair of unwitting explorers.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2020 -
Simba, too naive for his own good, becomes an unwitting pawn.
— Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 11 July 2019 -
The network had tricked unwitting American writers to post content to the pages.
— Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2020 -
At first, it was being sold mixed with heroin to unwitting buyers.
— Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019 -
These agencies, in turn, viewed Mr. Trump as a witting or unwitting Kremlin agent.
— Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 June 2018 -
To be fair, Bush had some unwitting help from Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader.
— Josef Joffe, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018 -
Each one offers something different but all have the same mission — to scare the hell out of its unwitting victims.
— Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022 -
The unwitting soldiers of this unseen enemy could be our own loved ones.
— Jim Beckerman, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2021 -
Brazilians queued at record stores to buy it, and Ms. Costa emerged as an unwitting feminist icon.
— Phil Davison, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022 -
And Mirai had an unwitting ally in the botnet war then raging.
— IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023 -
In its place, a restaurant’s starters menu makes an unwitting nod to Padres owner Peter Seidler.
— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023 -
These days, the unwitting props are migrants seeking refugee status, and the setting for the scheme has moved to not far from the Obama family’s island home.
— Philip Elliott, Time, 16 Sep. 2022 -
Over the years, North Korea’s government has generated billions of dollars in cryptocurrency through malware installed on the devices of unwitting victims.
— Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024 -
According to his plea agreement, Chavez diverted ketamine from his former ketamine clinic and submitted a fraudulent prescription in the name of an unwitting former patient.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
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