Example sentences for: unconsciously

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

  • This is a good case in point, I think, because it exposes how the Niceness Principle works: people find a particular meaning unpleasant, so they unconsciously change it to something more comfortable.

  • 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."

  • Anyway, the point is just that we are all, by nature, deeply and unconsciously self-serving in our judgments of others.

  • To Sheehy, Dukakis and Reagan and Hillary Clinton are case studies, just like the ones laid out in Passages : Rosalyn, the Jewish-American princess and wife who had to flee to Marin County to find herself; Mia, who enslaved herself to a saintly philosopher and had to divorce him to find herself; Donald Babcock, the Hotchkiss and Yale graduate who unconsciously emulated his father in everything he did, and who, Sheehy implied, had damn well better go through a crisis in order to find himself, and soon.


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