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How to use surprise in a sentence

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Nigiri sushi is Noma's chef-d'oeuvre, so arranged as to enhance flavor and surprise palates.
That Stone would slander the democratic, pro-Western, EuroMaidan revolution as a CIA coup is no surprise.
To everyone's surprise, my blood test came back with a very high insulin count.
I care more about chopping trees down than buying you that Yohji Yamamoto blouse as a surprise.
Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan comes as his battle plan faces a crucial test.
If I had one wish here, it would be for Aden Young to sneak a surprise nod for Rectify.
He then goes on to do some stretches in his briefs, undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for some moviegoers.
His surprise marriage to theater director Sophie Hunter may have broken hearts, but the squeals of delight were even louder.
From Kimmel and Kanye burying the hatchet to a telekinetic coffee shop surprise, WATCH our countdown.
They were busily implementing these in cases like Roe v. Wade when a right-wing insurgency took them by surprise.
No surprise then that aside from wealthy coastal suburbs, the Democratic base has shrunk to the urban cores and college towns.
The only surprise was that it was Gimpel who resorted to this ancient Likud canard.
Postscript Of all the interviews I did Lee Marvin was by far the biggest surprise.
Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsmann, expressed his surprise about Germany's U.N. abstention.
To his surprise, he is named SVP of the Urban Division, essentially boiling his job down to black man in charge of black stuff.
Given his alter ego, it may not come as a surprise that Goyeneche is into antiquities, especially of the pre-Colombian variety.
That Chenoweth would be suited to a role that channels the bleaker parts of her past should come as no surprise.
This was a surprise appointment, as Clough had been an outspoken critic of Revie and the team's tactics.
When he walked into his surprise birthday party, he was completely speechless.
He stood there speechlessly. The surprise had rendered him unable to make an intelligible reply.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Tell me, Mr Dorrit, what surprise would be the most unlooked for and the most acceptable to you.
There, to his surprise, he beheld the author of the baritone performance that had been puzzling him.
She stood aghast all this time, partly with real, partly with affected, surprise.
It is the handsome Denis Ronciat, the beau and cajoler of the village girls, who utters an exclamation of surprise.
As I stood there agaze at the strangeness and wonder of her, a voice at my shoulder made me whirl in surprise.
All at once the ant-thrush changed its tactics, and its louder note proclaimed a surprise.
Did any one here see Mr Pollard in his room, the detective asked in desperation, and to his surprise a bellhop piped out, I did.
The lump of earth, being taken somewhat by surprise, was not prepared with an apophthegm, and said nothing.
The decision of the British Government came therefore as a complete surprise to the Cairene authorities.
If Heman felt any surprise at her knowledge of his purpose, he did not betray it.
The sight of her agitation silenced the singers, and they gazed at her in surprise.
Lontaine's here, and we've planned a little surprise, dinner at my place out in Beverly Hills, just the four of us.
It was a slight, because expected, surprise to see Captain campion at the altar rails.
The allies were much disappointed in finding their plan of assailing the village by surprise frustrated.
They were astonished and full of their surprise when their father came to his dinner.
I was wearing a black-and-blue frock, and he had seen it before, as I explained with some surprise.
He had scratched an aborigine, and to his surprise was finding indications of a man.
But he perceived with surprise that the pillar did not abut immediately on the wall, as he had supposed.
It was a surprise to see these leisurely and luxurious animals spattering the water in such an ecstasy of amative rage.
But Rima, what had she expected that her face wore that blank look of surprise and pain?
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