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    Use "surprise" in a sentence

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    1. “It caught us all by surprise


    2. boarded the train and found, to my surprise, that my consultant was


    3. Ava had spoken with Kulai about Herndon and quite a few others, it would not be a total surprise, he would expect no less


    4. They have the element of surprise again, which is bad


    5. "What was the biggest surprise of your voyage?" Ava asked


    6. "Yeah," she said, knowing what a surprise that was


    7. Ackers slowly turned around to see a paper delivery boy standing on the porch with his mouth hanging open in surprise


    8. It is no surprise that most of the health related problems of women have been given names that start with MAN


    9. ‘Gave the doctor a bit of a surprise, I can tell you


    10. ’ He said calmly, obviously enjoying my surprise

    11. In his surprise and disgust Dan nearly crushed the empty brandy balloon that


    12. The officer opened his eyes wide in exaggerated surprise and gave a broad friendly smile


    13. ‘That does not surprise me in the slightest


    14. Travis lifted his gaze from the shop floor and looked into Theo's eyes with a malice that took even the seasoned investigator by surprise


    15. To my surprise, there is a taxi standing outside


    16. I’m pretty sure Molly didn’t miss a trick … wouldn’t surprise me if she knew perfectly well where her son spent most of the night … but she was discretion itself


    17. Then, my daughter's voice was a surprise in all this


    18. Man in love ---> (Shocked) Oh surprise she was my "beloved


    19. Man in love ---> But the surprise was over when you hear like


    20. But everything falls by surprise; the destination

    21. Later, at Janus, we all had a pleasant surprise: Alexander finally agreed to our attempting a technique for astral projection in class, which consists of the following steps:


    22. On the 16th, I produce a birthday cake for Fred and we surprise him with a little party in the hall to celebrate his birthday – complete with balloons and streamers


    23. ‘Kate, you bake a mean cake! And that party was a wonderful surprise


    24. He didn’t hear Parker coming and his surprise jolted him out of his seat


    25. While she holds Apollo in her arms she looks over at me and her face explodes with surprise, "Your eyes! They're better, what happened?" Apollo interjects, "ARIES repaired them


    26. He wakes up later, seemingly the next morning, to utter surprise


    27. To my utter surprise and absolute delight, Menachem simply took my outstretched hand in his, shook it vigorously and said in a strong and jovial voice, “Marwan


    28. I held on for dear life, twisting his foot so that he lost his balance, more out of surprise than through the force of my sudden retaliation


    29. After a never ending moment, he opened his eyes and looked at me in surprise


    30. The question took Kara by surprise

    31. Parrot: If you hear this bird chattering, beware of a treacherous person in your circle; if a young woman dreams of a parrot, she should investigate the origins of her lover before marriage, or she will have a nasty surprise too late


    32. She chuckled, the realisation that she’d be grateful for his company – for a variety of reasons - coming as something of a surprise


    33. To her surprise, a man's shadow soon appeared on the ramp


    34. ‘No, all this is a total surprise to me


    35. “Yes? To all of it,” She asked in surprise as he was nodding at her, “alright, it’s your stomach


    36. “No way,” he said with surprise, “I used to watch that every chance I got


    37. Her eyes were wide in surprise as he cradled her head in his hands, and kissed her forehead, her cheeks, and her neck


    38. Her surprise when he would react to her touch was a delight to him


    39. “Yes ma’am, we thought we’d surprise everyone with hot water


    40. ’ He said, his voice showing the surprise he clearly feels

    41. They all looked at each other in surprise; no one knew who their egg was until they were close to it


    42. As they emerged Kate was taken by surprise at the sight before her


    43. surprise of his life when the Queen of Jodechi arrived


    44. It was then that Daniel realized to his surprise, that Michael was a virgin


    45. But the sight that took them all by surprise was the size of Oreo


    46. To my surprise, we come to a roadway


    47. To my surprise, the cabin is tidy … I had expected Joris to be one of those men who leave things wherever they drop, but I was wrong


    48. I tried to rearrange the packages and parcels into a nest where I could lie with my discomfort but it soon became clear I should have skipped the cheese pie and lemonade because before long my stomach was trying to settle on whether or not to surprise me by throwing up over American parcels, Australian parcels or the fragrant cabbage


    49. It was a surprise to me, I can tell you


    50. She hoped this surprise would be pleasant but fell asleep before Yarin came to bed














































    1. "I'm surprised you're not with Herndon this sleep


    2. He was surprised she had been interested this sleep, on Dawnsleep she had still been sore


    3. He felt a little hurt, but was not surprised


    4. Sam was surprised at the crowds at the Oodle Festival, held just outside Berlin in the July of that year


    5. Sam was surprised that his ears were suddenly so sensitive to the unfamiliar music


    6. Nancy looked away, trying to appear casual, before acting surprised that the question was directed at her


    7. why should I be surprised … the cup continues on its journey


    8. With time--and patience--you'll be surprised at how much a rebellious grandchild can change


    9. we'd been closer than ever after that, he'd been really surprised that I was still there for him


    10. She was surprised that she was available

    11. ‘Why should she have hated me?’ I asked, surprised at her comment


    12. The Garda was surprised


    13. ‘Is there coal mining in the Bath area?’ I asked surprised


    14. I realised fairly quickly that she is jumpy about seeing Stephen with their disagreement unresolved and this house does looks a little imposing … I know I was surprised when Stephen bought it originally, thought it above our touch


    15. Surprised, he hesitates, hands her the reports


    16. ’ Emma commented, clearly surprised at the speed with which matters have moved


    17. “How could it happen?” they asked, surprised


    18. She was also surprised by the immortal population of New Dallas, that was four times the Pan Solar League's Angel population, even more than Pallas


    19. "I'm surprised there’s nothing on him here


    20. You would be surprised how shocking that can be

    21. Surprised, I look at her reflection in the mirror


    22. Theo was surprised but didn't show it


    23. "I'm surprised Herndon didn't tell you about it


    24. "Really?" Sarah was surprised


    25. He was surprised


    26. ’ Jeremy said looking surprised


    27. The man without faith, surprised by the question of that girl


    28. ---> (Surprised) What does it mean?, Only one of


    29. Jubei ---> (Fascinated) I'm surprised that life put us in the


    30. I was surprised at how quickly I became aware of alternative ways of interpreting my strange new home

    31. I was surprised by this


    32. Vincef was somewhat surprised


    33. She sets the scene and we all walk through the lines, then we have to do it properly … which, in this case, means Andy and I being in a clinch as the curtain goes up so that we can be surprised by other characters walking in on us


    34. “Can I have a cigarette?” I asked, surprised by my sudden boldness, but I was desperate to finish my first meal in days with that final token that would mean release from my futile fasting and a passage to one short moment in heaven


    35. At first Alexander looked surprised to see me in his class after three years of absence -as if he hadn't known I would come tonight


    36. I’m surprised they didn’t send more ships than the one we killed


    37. now why am I not surprised by this? As promised, I send Nick a text message


    38. I surprised by the openness of his thoughts and I get a piece of a conversation between him and ARIES


    39. What he didn't understand was why the person he had surprised was doing this, unless he really didn't know it was Bahkmar that had surprised him


    40. It was on that third day, as evening approached, that he suddenly found himself surrounded by a throng of surprised crewmen, most of them surprised to find themselves clad in formal robes and turbans, all walking along the colonnade of the Haadij toward what could only be the amphitheater

    41. As I turned my head, I was surprised to see that Arion's laser had struck the crystalline sphere above the altar, actually destroying the mystical seal inside


    42. Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you,” 1 John 3:12-13


    43. ‘Iain!’ she said, surprised to see him standing there, awkwardly holding a bunch of flowers


    44. Luray looked a little surprised, but explained


    45. ‘I’m not surprised … it’s a nasty business all told from what I can glean


    46. It surprised him so much he woke


    47. He raised the covers, and was surprised that his clothes had been removed


    48. Before the surprised clowns could reply, Marshall and Didiera


    49. "I'm surprised there hasn't been the way you've been calling them


    50. Unfortunately, Liesse Yare has had to stand down from the management – his health is deteriorating and, strictly between you and me, I should be surprised if he lasts the year














































    1. The scheduling the staff of this place alone is a nightmare!" As they leave, I stand to embrace Apollo, but he surprises me yet again


    2. This clearly surprises her


    3. I am also frustrated by the knowledge that, even if I could present you with such tokens, you probably wouldn’t wear them … I have never met a woman who wears less jewellery or who is so difficult to buy presents for! This being the case, I am sustaining my ego by building up a little store of surprises for you – one day I shall dig them out of storage and watch as you open the various boxes


    4. He helps me out of the vehicle, which surprises me


    5. The fact surprises me … I haven’t seen anyone else here any of the times I have been here and it comes as a shock to realise that Joris uses it regularly


    6. After making sure that there were no surprises left in the air, Jake dispatched Rah to hunt down a scout that he knew would be there to observe and report back


    7. His comment surprises me


    8. is, of course, considering that there are no surprises


    9. As pain may result from these unforetold surprises, the joys that come from meeting someone and discovering their


    10. Alastair is excited, which surprises me

    11. This surprises me and it shows


    12. “Are there any other surprises?”


    13. “You are full of surprises Tar,” she leaned closer and whispered, “and not just in the bedroom


    14. across something unexpected that surprises you


    15. Because it is so bulky and primitive I never thought the hardware would hold any surprises


    16. This planet is full of surprises Mya


    17. People in deep vegetative states don’t come up with many surprises, that’s why Enjteen left you the way he did


    18. when I thought Roman was done with the surprises, it seemed another was always


    19. ‘What surprises me is that he proposed by e-mail … I mean, it’s hardly romantic


    20. enough that not much of anything surprises me these days

    21. Over hot cocoa at the cafe, they made a brief list of stops for the shops Chloe knew she would find the majority of her surprises


    22. With all of his surprises,


    23. Would his surprises never end?


    24. pleasant surprises awaited them; Bobby’s and Boochie’s presents were met with


    25. More circumspect as they scanned the ground before them for caltrops and any other nasty surprises that may lie in store


    26. surprises but this time one comes as a shock! How can he do


    27. result may offer surprises of the most serious,


    28. They were generally at the same time erected into a commonalty or corporation, with the privilege of having magistrates and a town-council of their own, of making bye-laws for their own government, of building walls for their own defence, and of reducing all their inhabitants under a sort of military discipline, by obliging them to watch and ward; that is, as anciently understood, to guard and defend those walls against all attacks and surprises, by night as well as by day


    29. She in turn hoped that the same sort of guaranteed surprises of her army life would make staggered if not even far rarer appearances


    30. What other surprises was she going to produce? The Elf sat back in the Captain's chair and asked calmly, “And where did you get a hand scanner with that kind of range?”

    31. Many things had of course happened in the past few days and none really wanted more surprises


    32. No great surprises here thought Monty


    33. A successful meeting has no surprises


    34. I was surprised that McDonald stopped there, but the man was certainly full of surprises, wasn’t he


    35. “Alright Sergeant take the men on as far as those trees over there and check that the Turks have no more surprises for us and no more of them are in the vicinity and I will take care of things here


    36. They all fused into an existence, a life of very few surprises


    37. “He’s full of surprises, isn’t he?”


    38. I could relax around her again, but I had to ask, “Is there anything else I need to know? Any more surprises?”


    39. There were no surprises, and I got home by fifteen after ten


    40. “Other than that; I despise the police with a passion that surprises me

    41. I was looking forward to it, and had planned some special surprises for Uncle Hobart and Aunt Martha


    42. I experienced the expected radiation burn and the fatigue, but there were no other complications or surprises


    43. While their pilots were usually pretty well-trained, any technical surprises would be in our favour


    44. The return trip was of equal duration, but their familiarity with the route meant there were fewer surprises, so that the two men not driving the truck often used the time to sleep


    45. "That surprises you?" She moved closer, capitalizing on my reaction


    46. The mayor didn"t like surprises


    47. He still didn’t know the young curator as much as he wanted to, but he had seen enough to know that he was a indeed a man full of surprises


    48. He felt wary of the other surprises that lay in stock for him


    49. He had a few surprises for the Council, and he wondered what old Simmy Baby had been up to lately


    50. While there are many fruits you may already be familiar with, there are some exquisite ones that many Westerners have never seen or heard of so there are some pleasant surprises in store











































    1. Even more surprising than that, his head wasn't bleeding or nothing!


    2. Not surprising really


    3. Not surprising really when you know a little about her life


    4. It’s surprising how much dust accumulates on bookshelves


    5. "No," Glenelle said, surprising herself with the speed that word was out, in spite of the racing heart her ethical misgivings were causing, "I just need to understand who I am and where we are


    6. While we were packing boxes, we chatted about all sorts of things … she told me some stories about her childhood which were very similar to some of my own memories – not really surprising, we’re both country girls, after all


    7. clearly notified that: “It is over”, the most surprising thing was that there


    8. Suzy was surprising everyone


    9. Emma was a bit cagey with Stephen when she first got here, as though she was weighing him up – not surprising really, she’s very protective of her mother – but she seemed reasonably happy by the time she left


    10. ‘You look shattered, Kate, which is not really surprising

    11. He was stupid to have left it at that level after surprising the one who ran the fake female side


    12. It's surprising how easily and quickly they broke him


    13. And it’s not surprising your head hurts,’ Came the reply


    14. "Not surprising, as bulky as that is, but this is as good a place to camp for Noonsleep as any


    15. I squelched through swarms of midges and climbed through tall grasses and even jumped a surprising brook all without confrontation


    16. ‘It’s hardly surprising is it?’ Berndt said reasonably, ‘You’ve not spent that much time here on Errd, after all


    17. ’ He said, surprising me – although I have called the thing that in my mind, I didn’t for a moment think it was the proper name


    18. The blind at the window is pretty manky too – not surprising I suppose with the amount of steam which gets generated in here sometimes and the fire in the range creates a fair amount of soot


    19. ‘You’ve had a lot to deal with over the last week, Jo, it’s not surprising that you get ratty sometimes


    20. In fact, the archaeologist said that considering there is so much evidence to show Dorini was an established Minoan settlement, it's surprising there has never been an official dig

    21. It wasn't surprising, considering she was the best looking girl in


    22. Abi was nervous before her piano lesson tonight, not surprising really - after all it’s over a month since she last had a lesson, but when she came back she was okay


    23. It wouldn’t be surprising


    24. this leads to surprising revelations about the past


    25. It wasn’t surprising that her body needed a certain


    26. Not surprising with the heat that is generated between you


    27. If she really did believe in the Son of God, she would not have thought it at all surprising that he was not here


    28. Tam had to admit that this human was very surprising in his reactions to his


    29. The newness of it is a little surprising


    30. ‘Not surprising with that thing making such a row

    31. In a not so surprising coincidence George finished his tower project just when they had completely varnished the decks


    32. Not surprising considering what Ozzie put her through – but she’d married him after all, it was reasonable to assume she knew what she was doing at the time


    33. “You know, there’s a surprising variation in the Visitors I have


    34. Even more surprising, he actually came to


    35. Soissons, surprising everyone with the change of subject


    36. His search turned up empty, not surprising considering who he was dealing


    37. Not surprising though that our definitions of ‘good people’ are not


    38. They’re pretty subdued … not surprising really … at least they’re not hysterical


    39. There was a surprising number


    40. After a few seconds, he squinted his eyes open and saw something most surprising

    41. His speech was a little accented, not surprising from way up there


    42. Not surprising that he didn’t know of them, few who weren't history scholars did


    43. It is not so surprising, I suppose, for Harry to both complete his University studies and hold down a new career at the same time


    44. His strength was surprising as he pulled her up with him


    45. Her reaction to his touch was surprising also and a bit of a gasp escaped her lips from the shock of it


    46. This was a surprising discovery, and I was exceeding glad of them; but I was warned by my experience to eat sparingly of them; remembering that when I was ashore in Barbary, the eating of grapes killed several of our Englishmen, who were slaves there, by throwing them into fluxes and fevers


    47. The title was a bit long, true; The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner; Who lived Eight and Twenty years, all alone in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, having been Cast on Shore by shipwreck, wherein all men perished but Himself


    48. Even more surprising was their dress


    49. It was certainly, as you said, very surprising that he should have gotten a rare Asiatic disease in the heart of London--


    50. He was barely out of the shower when Luray showed up, surprising him







































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    Synonyms for "surprise"

    surprisal surprise storm astound astonish stupefy bewilder dumbfound startle wow them awe astonishment shock stupefaction wonder consternation

    "surprise" definitions

    the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you


    a sudden unexpected event


    the act of surprising someone


    cause to be surprised


    come upon or take unawares


    attack by storm; attack suddenly