Example sentences for: unconsciously

How can you use “unconsciously” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (It is possible, of course, that she has a photographic memory and repeated Johnson's not-particularly-memorable phrases unconsciously; though if she had a photographic memory, wouldn't she remember reading the Johnson piece?)

  • Besides planting shrubs, flowers, and sometimes grass, the gardener will bring into play the creativity that goes into decorating a yard unconsciously, with the result being a folk art display.

  • A yard shrine is a public exhibition of a family’s religion and their devotion to a particular saint, as well as a display of an artistic sensibility, that emerges unconsciously from the family’s beliefs.

  • (Reagan unconsciously seconded this judgment at the 1988 Republican convention when, botching a quote from John Adams, he declared, "Facts are stupid things."

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.


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