unconscious - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • floor: They were all unconscious on the floor of the kitchen clutching their stomachs.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • render: The effect is not intended nor is likely to render the subject unconscious.

Adjective modifier

  • collective: I think the collective unconscious had built up enough steam, perhaps from deep, cringing despair, for breakthrough.

Modifies a noun

  • phantasy: A collection of her most important papers, topics include projective identification and unconscious phantasy.
  • mind: The unconscious minds ultimate priority is to assure your survival.
  • casualty: Provide buoyancy for an unconscious casualty on the surface.
  • incompetence: What better way to lift a learner out of that comfortable state of ' unconscious incompetence ' ?
  • imitation: He hissed through his teeth, in unconscious imitation of a popular favorite in melodrama, " Him shall she never wed!
  • motive: Finally the goal of Psychotherapy is to reveal the unconscious motives, fears and anxieties that are being manifest in debilitating mental symptoms.

Modifying Another Word

  • largely: It should be remembered that in Freud's schema the superego is also largely unconscious.
  • deeply: Coma When a person is in a coma, they are deeply unconscious and don't respond to anything going on around them.
  • apparently: DON'T Lay an apparently unconscious badger loose in the back of a car.
  • almost: I hope they relate to the viewer in a spiritual almost unconscious way.
  • perhaps: Lewis Nixon was the convenient and perhaps unconscious " Gentile front.

Used with adjective complement

  • knock: When they saw me I could not speak; I had been knocked unconscious the day before and my throat was damaged.
  • render: Victims are rendered unconscious for up to six hours.
  • slump: The sedative in the rag works quickly and she slumps unconscious within seconds.
  • lie: On the evening of 1st January 1907, Tommy was found lying unconscious in an entry off Bridge Street.
  • fall: I gradually fell unconscious, only to wake up the next morning, still on the hill, feeling awful.
  • beat: A severely disabled man was beaten unconscious on his way home from a pub by three youths.

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