Example Sentences

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No Hercules in any sense, William Dudley Pelley might well have felt last week that he had unwarily donned the shirt of Nessus.

From Time Magazine Archive

William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, last week gave decisive publication to his wrath against certain English hymns which Roman Catholics have unwarily allowed into their funeral services.

From Time Magazine Archive

One leak was Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, member of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who unwarily blurted it out on a television program in an argument for tighter security regulations.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the morning of May 10, 1940, the scrubbed, immaculate city of Bandung, on a Java plateau, seemed unwarily peaceful.

From Time Magazine Archive

When something delicious-smelling ran unwarily past him, he found he had pounced on it and pinned it down without thought.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks