Example sentences for: unwittingly

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

  • The married woman who takes her husband's family name as a surname yet keeps her own family name as a middle name--Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor--has unwittingly introduced a new form of patronymic, which takes its place alongside the more traditional (Slavic, Scandinavian, Islamic, Hispanic) versions.

  • Journalists unwittingly oblige him.

  • After 9/11, the mosque administrator came forward because he feared he had unwittingly aided the hijackers.

  • "We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."

  • Despite Birthday Letters ' seeming tenderness toward Plath, feminists argue that the poems unwittingly show Hughes' true stripes.


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