How to Use unsurprising in a Sentence

unsurprising

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• The band has continued the gesture on the road, and in L.A. got an unsurprising cheer from the crowd.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Sep. 2022
• Many of the names were unsurprising, the subjects of years of rumor.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• With the Panthers off to an unsurprising bad start, that chip looks like a top-70 pick.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
• The takeover was a stunning, if unsurprising, turn of events.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• And, in a perhaps unsurprising turn, both cities happen to be two of the wealthiest in the Lone Star State.
  — Michael Murney, Chron, 20 Jan. 2023
• The co-opting of NFTs by big tech platforms is, in some way, unsurprising.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 21 Jan. 2022
• These nods to the past are unsurprising for a series steeped in nostalgia.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• And the research holds some important, if unsurprising, clues about how to do it.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2022
• The study’s findings are unsurprising to those who research dolphins, per the Times.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
• It’s perhaps unsurprising that Levchin would believe in some form of tech to be the solution.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
• Their parents say the post-playing careers of Chris and Kyle are unsurprising.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2023
• That Freud beat Remarque and Sherriff to the punch is unsurprising.
  — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• This is unsurprising, as so much of consumers' lives and day-to-day functions have shifted to the digital world.
  — John Kim, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• The horse race implications of the feud have led much of the coverage, for unsurprising reasons.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
• And in an incredibly unsurprising twist, the gun turns out to be empty.
  — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
• So once again, another unsurprising win for the Switch.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Like their courtship, this news is both surprising and completely unsurprising at the same time.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
• Some of them, like fresh water or livable air, are unsurprising.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2022
• The buzz: In an unsurprising move, the Tigers grabbed another college bat — and another switch hitter — in the seventh round.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2022
• Her disappointment was unsurprising given that the first quarter of 2022 had some of the worst bond returns.
  — David John Marotta, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• This is unsurprising given love for the feature since its debut.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Jan. 2023
• This gives an entirely unsurprising amount of low-down lag but also huge midrange punch.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
• On first glance, this seems somewhat unsurprising, given that these are the three most populous states.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 10 Nov. 2021
• To Tavares, the response to Vanilla’s milestone was unsurprising.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• The detection of omicron in the US is unsurprising to health officials.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2021
• The move was unsurprising, as suspects in white-collar cases are often given a chance to turn themselves in.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• Even earlier bats have proved elusive, but that’s unsurprising given the nature of the fossil record.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
• Her memories of that period are an unsurprising mix of the idyllic and the traumatic.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• That's unsurprising given that the new car weighs over 60 percent more than its famous predecessor and has two-and-a-half times more power.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 July 2022
• Searchers say this is unsurprising, since the ivorybill is not only rare but also very shy, all the more so because it was hunted so intensively in the past.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024