How to Use unconscious in a Sentence

unconscious

adjective
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  • He was knocked unconscious by a fall.
  • She was unconscious for three days after the accident.
  • And his aim was true: The bear fell to the ground, uninjured and unconscious.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Hoang was knocked unconscious from the fall and the waves swept him into the ocean, police said.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • One of them, a teen, who was found unconscious, had to be airlifted from the top of the north hangar.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • As Joel flails in the fog, someone emerges and knocks him unconscious with the butt of their rifle.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • One of the girls is then taken out of the car appearing to be unconscious.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Hours later on that day, the 36-year-old man fell unconscious in the Estelle Unit.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, McAbee had turned back to the unconscious woman in the tunnel.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • He was carried out of the house unconscious on a stretcher and spent the night in the hospital, the lawsuit states.
    — Lisa Rathke, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • When workers tried to wake them up around 2:30 p.m., three of the children were unconscious.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2023
  • While Cliffe was unconscious on the ground, the group stole items from him without rendering aid.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Kamp told paramedics the woman had been unconscious from drinking since 2 a.m., the complaint said.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Two of the victims were unconscious following the shooting, both of whom died.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • An unconscious female adult was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The splitting was an unconscious process, Parker said, one that began when Miller was a child.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Read full article When the first park ranger reached the hikers around 11:30 p.m., the woman was unconscious, Adam said.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • No one else kept their eyes on my upside-down boat and no one else risked the current and strainers to drag an unconscious girl out of a kayak.
    — Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Deputies found Jones lying on the floor of his apartment unconscious but still breathing, the sheriff said.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • When workers went to wake them up at 2:30 p.m., three were unconscious, police said.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The boy on the left was five years old and was unconscious, his tiny head appearing above the sheet that covered him, his body dwarfed by the hospital bed.
    — Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • There is a bias—conscious or unconscious—that sees some groups as supporters of the leaders.
    — Cathrin Stickney, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2023
  • In books, the facts always have a disguise, conscious or unconscious, but that disguise is their truth. . . .
    — Jess Bergman, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Interrupted by two other tourists, the man threw the unconscious woman down the gorge.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Still, there’s an urge to push them into your unconscious mind, which results in your shadow self.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Her friends helped carry her unconscious body off the train and onto the platform, according to Reuters.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The complaint states Pelosi was unconscious on the ground as police restrained DePape.
    — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • One tragedy is that Izzy is too unconscious to understand this.
    — David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • That heroin addict once found unconscious in his car with a syringe in his arm, now sober and married, with twins.
    — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • With help from the two unidentified women on scene, Goff was able to drag the unconscious teenager onto the rock ledge the three of them were standing upon.
    — David Murray, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023

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