Example sentences for: unwittingly

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

  • America's household pediatrician as the Cat in the Hat: The image is unwittingly apt, linking two upstart heroes in the baby boomer pantheon.

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

  • "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."

  • "Jeffersonism is not Clintonism," says historian Sean Wilentz in the New Republic . The Chicago Tribune , however, concludes that American Sphinx makes manifest so many inconsistencies in Jefferson's thought that it may unwittingly be "the most critical biography of Jefferson published in this century."

  • The government-owned plant unwittingly exposed the workers and the environment to small amounts of plutonium, and greatly underestimated the health risks posed by exposure to uranium.


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