Examples of surprising in a Sentence
It's not surprising that he doesn't want to go.
The changes to the campus were surprising.
He shows a surprising lack of concern for others.
A surprising number of people were laid off at the factory.
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The whole thing was surprising, just like Mindy and Nicolas’s sudden engagement after getting back together rather quickly following their very explosive breakup.
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2025
Narwhals are surviving in surprising ways In 2007, a young researcher reached out to the curator of the Rosenborg Castle museum in Denmark with a weird request.
—Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
Listeners receive a crash course in the surprising complexities of polar medicine—Varnam serves as the crew’s doctor, nurse, and dentist all at once—as well as a taste of life aboard a sailing vessel bound for such remote territory.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
That’s the powerful lesson emerging from new research into carbon capture materials, where a surprising disconnect between computer predictions and lab results led to a breakthrough that could reshape our fight against climate change.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2025
Narwhals are surviving in surprising ways In 2007, a young researcher reached out to the curator of the Rosenborg Castle museum in Denmark with a weird request.
—Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
Listeners receive a crash course in the surprising complexities of polar medicine—Varnam serves as the crew’s doctor, nurse, and dentist all at once—as well as a taste of life aboard a sailing vessel bound for such remote territory.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
That’s the powerful lesson emerging from new research into carbon capture materials, where a surprising disconnect between computer predictions and lab results led to a breakthrough that could reshape our fight against climate change.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Surprising.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surprising. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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