Surprising

//səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ//

"Surprising" in a Sentence (14 examples)

It is surprising that your wife should object.

It is not surprising that you should be scolded by your teacher.

The idea that air has weight was surprising to the child.

Bill spoke Japanese with surprising fluency.

It is surprising how many unhappy marriages there are.

That is surprising.

If he comes at all, it will be surprising.

This is a surprising discovery.

It's surprising how many unhappy marriages there are.

It isn't surprising that Africans may think of English as one of their continent's languages.

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A surprising number of people attended the rally.

With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

But the comments of most of these novelists are the record of their continual surprisings by the varieties of moral and aesthetic truths.

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