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Example sentences for "unintentionally"

Lexicographically close words:
unintelligibility; unintelligible; unintelligibly; unintended; unintentional; uninterested; uninteresting; unintermitted; unintermittent; unintermitting
  1. But towards the end of an evening so happy, Mademoiselle Josephine unintentionally made an exclamation it may not be useless to add: "See!

  2. It has so frequently occurred that I have unintentionally offended Miss J.

  3. It causes young salmon to leap out of the fresh water, where they could still continue to live, and thus unintentionally to commit suicide.

  4. With many species the female caterpillar is larger than the male, and a collector would naturally choose the finest specimens, and thus unintentionally collect a larger number of females.

  5. Substantially this experiment was unintentionally tried on an enormous scale with the rabbit in Australia.

  6. Yet such was the influence of prevailing custom in the theological world, operating on his mind unconsciously from his earliest days, that he unintentionally acted inconsistently with this good resolution in cases without number.

  7. He stood for sweet reasonableness, but unintentionally created much opposition.

  8. I shall be fully satisfied, for I had no business to send, though quite unintentionally and unexpectedly, such badly composed MS.

  9. He glanced unintentionally at his bag as he spoke, and the seedy man glanced at it too--intentionally.

  10. I have only seen pollen of a Cattleya on a bee, but surely have you not unintentionally sent me what I wanted most (after Catasetum or Mormodes), viz.

  11. Man does not actually produce variability; he only unintentionally exposes organic beings to new conditions of life, and then nature acts on the organisation, and causes variability.

  12. This is one boon that the science and philosophy of our day have unintentionally conferred upon us.

  13. The test which revealed the thoroughness of his brothers' repentance was unintentionally applied by Joseph.

  14. In fact, by making these creatures captive, men unintentionally brought themselves out of their ancient savagery.

  15. Not only has the plumage been greatly altered by the breeder's art and in pursuance of his plans, but the form and proportions of the bones have coincidently and unintentionally been greatly changed.

  16. Sorry unintentionally to have caused you trouble.

  17. And this young lady," he said, "has quite unintentionally and unconsciously succeeded in tracking Colonel Clay to earth at last.

  18. We begin with a marquis unintentionally poaching on the ironmaster's ground, and (rather oddly) accepting game which he has not shot thereon.

  19. The pious Philippa was distressed at the idea of having unintentionally displeased the saint, and fled in her night-clothes to the castle, which was fortunately not far away.

  20. The Church herself had unintentionally given them a monopoly of the money market, by forbidding Christians to take interest.

  21. But the sense that their parting was near made her more anxious lest she should have unintentionally left some painful impression on Philip's mind.

  22. It was not quite unintentionally that Philip had wandered into this song, which might be an indirect expression to Maggie of what he could not prevail on himself to say to her directly.

  23. I told him how Mark had been seized and locked up and how I had unintentionally assisted him to escape.

  24. I didn't tell him just then of my having unintentionally assisted Mark and the other poachers to make their escape.

  25. Yes, Scatcherd, that child is alive; and for fear that you should unintentionally make her your heir, I have thought it right to tell you this.

  26. In the first case, two children, perhaps when close to each other in bed, more or less unintentionally generate in each other a certain amount of sexual irritation, which they foster by mutual touching and kissing.

  27. Of course it was unintentional; and yet how agreeable to be unintentionally defended!


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unintentionally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carelessly; chance; heedlessly; inadvertently; involuntarily; unawares