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Example sentences for "unbeknown"

Lexicographically close words:
unbeautiful; unbecoming; unbecomingly; unbefitting; unbegotten; unbeknownst; unbelief; unbelievable; unbelievably; unbeliever
  1. Contrary to our compact, I read and studied at home books relating to financial and economical matters; I concealed railway reports in my muff, and tried various artifices to acquire knowledge unbeknown to Mr. Chelm.

  2. I did not seriously suppose my own niece so far lost to all sense of propriety as to take such a step unbeknown to me.

  3. Or if not so, how know I what involuntary preparations may be going on in him for things as unbeknown in present time to him as me--a sort of chemical preparation in the soul for malice, as chemical preparation in the body for malady.

  4. Now, it so chanced that, unbeknown to the cripple, a prim-looking stranger had overheard part of his story.

  5. It was the President's idea that the leaders of the Confederacy should be allowed to escape,--much as he had already jocularly advised Grant to let Jeff Davis escape "all unbeknown to himself.

  6. My notion was that if Grant could let Jeff Davis escape all unbeknown to himself, he was to let him go.

  7. They left her without that last faint shadow of doubt which, almost unbeknown to herself, had been her main support during the past few minutes of this intense agony.

  8. Unbeknown to King Louis a ship might be sent by private friends to rescue the fugitive, but that ship could be intercepted on her way home, and, after all, Charles Edward was bound to land in France some day!

  9. Budd screwed his mouth into a smile, and, unbeknown to the rest of the family, reached under the cloth for his mother's hand.

  10. But they all got in the boat unbeknown to Aggie and me, and the tide's carried them up the river.

  11. Agnes to Ruth behind the flap of the tent where they were listening, likewise, though unbeknown to Kuk and the children.

  12. I told Grant if he could let Jeff Davis escape all unbeknown to himself, to let him go.

  13. Of course, I made it up to Herbert unbeknown to his father, who would only return him a little of the money you had borrowed.

  14. It wouldn't be possible for her to do the like unbeknown to me, for I had my eye on her.

  15. Unbeknown to anyone save to him, the Lord of Stoutenburg sat in a dark recess of the tapperij deeply interested in all that was going on.

  16. He hath name Praff, and will see to the comfort of my sister and of her duenna, while you and I settle the first instalment of our business, quite unbeknown to her.

  17. Something the man had sought to communicate, unbeknown to any one, even to his captain.

  18. Are you sure that Mr. Clarence did not buy the land unbeknown to you?

  19. We want no love-making here, sir, unbeknown to parents.

  20. But to drag out a ignoble existence unbeknown to mankind in general--patience!

  21. Unbeknown to him, his pals planned a rescue, and it seems that they had been watching us for days.

  22. The waves rolled in softly from fur off, fur off, bringin' a greetin' to me unbeknown to anybody, unbeknown to me.

  23. She wuz born so, but I suppose ontirely unbeknown to her when she wuz born.

  24. And I read 'em, almost entirely unbeknown to myself.

  25. Why I had to call on every martyr in the hull string of martyrs sometimes to keep myself from tellin' her my full mind about 'em unbeknown to me.

  26. They will creep in, and round, and over anything, and get inside of your mind (entirely unbeknown to you) at any time.

  27. Josiah riz right up in the buggy and cheered jest as the rest of 'em did, entirely unbeknown to himself, so he said, to see it a goin' on.

  28. The explanation is that “the forces of history are, unbeknown to themselves, planned, in their depths, for agreement with the necessities and ends of thought and of truth.

  29. You see they are relations of ourn and have been for some time, entirely unbeknown to us, and they'd come more'n a year ago a huntin' of us up.

  30. Cinderella, the cinder-maiden, sits unbeknown in her earthly.

  31. Meanwhile the photographers managed to get in some of their efforts, possibly unbeknown to the rest.

  32. I thought I'd try a scheme unbeknown to you," began the other, slowly.

  33. I ventured up to town unbeknown to any one to see you, Mr. Awdrey.

  34. But the ring and the vile laws laid holt of her, unbeknown to her, and dragged her down.

  35. I took out them handkerchiefs entirely unbeknown to me, and put 'em back unbeknown.

  36. Minor at all, if they had stood right by me, I was so lost and unbeknown to myself.

  37. I had thought that likely as not, entirely unbeknown to me, I should soar right off into a eloquent oration.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unbeknown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.