Example sentences for: unprovoked

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

  • Whereas Louima's beating was a premeditated, unprovoked act of barbarism, Diallo's killing stemmed from street-crime patrols, where heavy suspicion of blacks is inevitable, if unlawful.

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with the latest in the city's mushrooming police scandal: The LAPD chief's call for the quick dismissal of the cases against 99 people in which the arrests were based on officers' documented illegal activity, ranging from lying to unprovoked shooting.

  • Ling-Ling, unprovoked, assaulted one of her keepers and gnawed on his ankle.

  • Skinhead assaults have become such a problem, reports the Times , that the American Embassy has twice alerted U.S. citizens, particularly those of African or Asian origin about the danger of unprovoked attacks.

  • Bin Ladin shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.


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