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Sentence Examples When the drill strikes water, there is a river of thick yellow ooze that will trap an unwary two-wheeler or a small car, in no time. They'll use letters, postcards, telegrams, cars and whatever other technology is at hand to snare the unwary. They say one in every five bombs, bomblets, and artillery shells doesn't go off, and lies in wait, sometimes years, for the unwary or unlucky. In the hands of the untrained and unwary it can cause untold damage to your wealth. With no water visible, this stretch of the canal will be a danger to the unwary walker and young children. A gilded silver twopence might well pass for a gold half-crown to the unwary. Hidden in the shadowy cover of the canopy, he waited, silently stalking his unwary prey. The road was uneven, often concealing deep chasms, all too ready to welcome unwary travelers into the darkness of some unseen cavern far below. Sharper than the most finely whetted blade, this tooth can slice through an unwary pioneer's fingers in an instant. There's plenty here to trap the unwary and baffle even the inveterate gambler! When that is coupled with temporary blindness by the sun, a hidden trap lies waiting to ensnare the unwary driver. I should say, it's meaningless goop that some poor soul spent a whole lot of time creating in order to dumfound the unwary. The Forest of Dean has dangers enough for the unwary stranger, without these. In the early '50s, Bate's parents, Bev and Viv, swapped him to unwary tinkers for a three-legged dog. More like a liqueur than an aperitif, only the unwary would approach it with abandon. Reddish brown to yellowish tan, they partly cover themselves with sand or mud to disappear from the view of their unwary prey. That there are dark undertones to everything, that bide their time and lie in wait for the unfortunate and unwary. Her power is unmistakably sexual, but it strips unwary men of their manliness. Documents rarely set out to trick historians, but they can bamboozle the unwary at every turn. It was just light enough to see, but not to read, the signs in the sand dunes that warn the unwary beachgoer of snakes. Show More Sentences I stopped off at Na'ama Bay, the heart of the resort, on the way, and it seemed a nice enough place, with no hassling touts to trap the unwary. The convolutions of dress are of course largely to act as trip wires for the unwary. But as our experiences show, innocent fun can soon turn into danger for the unwary. It is tempting to try a few long exposure shots provided you don't have an unwary fellow-guest pointing his flash light at you. In mythology, the treacherousness of water is personified as alluring and irresistible women without souls who lure unwary men to a watery death. A glaciologist said the crevasses could be wide open, waiting to swallow the unwary. From internet identity fraud to mobile phone scams, it seems there are now a myriad of ways in which crooks can strike against the unwary. A newcomer could easily get lost in its tunnels, and the unwary is easy prey to predatory wasps or mantises. The heron resumed his beady-eyed stance, scanning the depths of the pond for an unwary goldfish. But with the increased acceptance of such activity, great danger lies for the unwary. The exposed live wires pose a great danger to unwary people, especially children who could touch these wires while playing. A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey. Somewhere down-slope there is sure to be an unwary toddler, a brittle pensioner, or at the very least an expensive automobile. Lurking just below the surface, they are traps for the unwary and their cheerful colour is a magnet for children. This whole process can be done invisibly to the user, so for the unwary, the dangers of transmitting it to others is very real. Old seal wallows, treacherously covered with floating vegetation, lay in wait for the unwary. Haphazardly installed electrical wiring is common in many small private schools and can create fires or electrocute an unwary child or teacher. Sea urchins and starfish are the last and most obvious group of marine creatures lurking to catch unwary and clumsy humans. The sniffer dog makes periodic visits to the temple and an unwary visitor is sure to be frightened at the sight of the canine. The Dwarves of Darkhun, far to the south, told a tale of evil faeries who sang to and lured unwary travellers to a watery death. Show More Sentences Her motive was likely to have been to press-gang an unwary man into Aunt Fanny's Sewing Circle, the court was told. As we have already seen the fire can spread very rapidly and may catch the unwary off guard. Everywhere were scrub cactus and yucca plants looming with sharp spines to catch the unwary passer-by and stab into the skin. Dotted throughout the landscape are land mines, buried for unwary feet to tread on. Unfortunately, if the old man pages are left in section 1, unwary users will not see the latest version of the page. At Bangka we found abundant pygmy seahorses, cuttlefish, sponges hiding huge frogfish, and a painted anglerfish slowly flicking her lure in hopes of attracting an unwary meal. In an unwary moment, French dragoons come so very narrowly to causing Wellesley great harm, prevented only by the heroic efforts of Sergeant Richard Sharpe. Others may think that very suspiciously is simply one more interminable campaigns 'marketing' we seek to take by surprise the unwary. Through the agency of worldlings he keeps up a continual excitement to induce the unwary to join in worldly pleasures. It is this egotism alone, without rhyme or reason, that has spread the net of family and social relationships to catch the unwary soul. Terrified screams echo in dense woods, pounding feet crunch through glass, and animal traps lie in wait for the unwary. Marten have few natural enemies, but other mammalian predators, as well as hawks and owls, have been recorded as preying upon an unwary marten. The financial aspects of exporting will be explained, and terms, conditions and procedures that could catch the unwary exporter off guard, will be made clear. That room had no toys and was accessible only by a narrow spiral staircase with no banisters or metal grids to protect the unwary foot. However, references can also be a potential source of liability for the unwary employer. They are unwary and easy to shoot, but they provide little meat compared with most ducks, so few hunters seek them out. He should not seek a photo opportunity with an unwary president to look good at home while achieving nothing. As a result the use of this software can appear misleadingly easy for the unwary. This may occur under relatively clear skies and, hence, can be particularly nasty for the unwary pilot. They know that if the student spills the Seminal Liquid, the Kundalini descends and the weak and unwary student loses his power. Show More Sentences Inappropriately hedged or conditioned statements may well come back to haunt the unwary in changed circumstances. It was stated that a different approach would create unnecessary cost and a trap for unwary parties. In medieval bestiaries the whale mistaken for an island is usually equated with the devil, who lures the unwary from the safety of their ship, the church. With so many traps waiting to ensnare the unwary we shouldn't be surprised that more and more of us are resorting to gifts that are less likely to betray our vulnerable cores. Mid-January to mid-February was the warmest it's been seen 1659, foxing unwary plants into flowering prematurely, to give the frost something to kill. What if we had abandoned the charade, and revealed ourselves to our unwary allies? Amtrak food can only be adequately compared to the execrable fare that used to await unwary travellers at the highway service stations of my youth. The addition of subsection is another dangerous trap for the unwary. Both London and Los Angeles can be dangerous places for the unwary. Analysts made more money by touting stocks they knew were far overvalued than by providing accurate information to their unwary customers who depended on them. The layers of mud all along the yet-to-be asphalted roads are soft and thick enough to either send an unwary rider into a skid or to send an asthmatic to hospital. It was a cold night for October, single digit temperatures with a wicked north wind blowing in, reminding the unwary that it wasn't too soon for a blast of early snow. It's mean to cavil over the shortcomings of a product that's given away for free but I find the installation documentation dense and obscure, filled with traps for the unwary. Even so, there are still possible confusions to the unwary as one can have long hundredweight, short hundredweight, metric hundredweight, and short tons. Although the resultant gravitoinertial force is only 1.01 G, barely more than the perceptible force of gravity, it is directed 9º aft signifying to the unwary pilot a 9º nose-up pitch attitude. The surprises were 'booby-trap' bombs, concealed in places or objects such as chimneys, fountain pens and old boots, which killed a number of unwary soldiers. My tests show that though SPOT does work as advertised, it does not work as well in practice as an unwary user might expect and could, in some cases, actually be worse than having nothing at all. Even these, however, can come with pitfalls to trap the unwary. But by some reckonings, Morgan lost money on its dealings with Enron, while Citi came out ahead only because it dumped its exposure on to unwary customers. Otherwise, pure and simple liberalisation could become a trap for the unwary that is not enough to hold down prices, which are frequently pushed up as a result of monopolies that dictate conditions even to the politic body. Show More Sentences From the moment an Irishman or Englishman sets his foot upon our soil, his ears are stunned by the cry of Treason and Rebellion which is constantly kept up by the curs of office to deceive the ignorant and unwary. As an antimother, she embodies everything foresworn by Victorian domestic ideology and clearly spells danger to the unwary. But it is also the hour of danger and of menace for the unwary and the unready, for the ambitious, the ignorant, and for these who selfishly seek the Way and who refuse to tread the path of service with pure motive. Too few names go undropped, the prime spot going to Roland Barthes. The book is sprinkled with enough pretentious jargon, factual error and illogicality to infuriate and baffle the unwary. Seclusion from others, as of old a necessity, that ones demons do not derange the unwary, and more practically, that one is not chanced upon, mistaken for a psychotic and incarcerated in some asylum. Previously dormant intercompany gain often caught unwary taxpayers off guard during business planning and restructuring. India's rough and tumble trips the unwary. Setting up a bench and waiting would be inefficient, so we still-hunted, stopping to glass and occasionally pot an unwary dog. The calendrical gap can also confuse us by allowing the unwary to misdate events. But for the unwary consumer, a product containing four percent total phenolics would likely appear to be much more 'potent' than one containing one percent cichoric acid. But in the commercial world, they can be traps for the unwary. Some to protect the unwary reader, and some to protect the author. There are no projecting parts to catch the unwary worker. As it has no smell it also gained notoriety as a date-rape drug that could be slipped into unwary revellers' drinks. Totally unwary, the great auks dumbly stood their ground and let Cartier's crew club them to death. A few black women also used the multi-racial character of prostitution to practice the badger game on unwary white customers, adding robbery to their list of crimes. Examples from Classical Literature It had been a famous joke to drag that light card-table before the pier glass, which reflected the hand of the unwary gamester. The hunting of such an extraordinarily unwary animal as the barren ground caribou calls for extremely little skill. Sales, however tempting, should be avoided by the unwary shopper, for they are dangerous as spiders' webs. Where trout are so plentiful and so unwary, there is no call for the preparatory work of the evisceration school of anglers. Yet the sands are by no means without danger, especially to the uncautious or unwary. An ant lion will dig an entrapment, then hiding behind a blind, await the unwary. You have deceived the ignorant, betrayed the unwary, lied to the simple, and robbed the poor. I was not long in becoming an efficient in the arts these men practiced on the unwary. Not pastes only but clear crystals have long been palmed off on the unwary for diamonds. The spider uses its silk to build cunning traps for unwary flies. He said Eliphalet Congdon had taken a bagful to pass on the unwary. Here also the unwary stranger might have fumbled for a spare coin. They are the ones chiefly dangerous to the unwary pursuit pilot. You are waiting in your lairs, ready to pounce on the unwary hunter. Otherwise the angles might inflict on the unwary Feeler irreparable injury. A low grunt was his only response, and a moment later he had leaped nimbly upon a small and unwary rodent that had been surprised at a fatal distance from its burrow. Well, so I should, only I know there are a lot of traps for the unwary, and that stones may be of any size and yet of little value where color and consistency are clean off. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of unwary? Words that rhyme with unwary What is the adverb for unwary? What is the adjective for unwary? What is the noun for unwary? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words unwarrantedly unwarranted unwarrantably unwarrantable unwarped unwarned unwashed unwasted unwatchable unwatched unwatchful unwavering 6-letter Words Starting With u un unw unwa unwar