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How to use surprising in a sentence

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It has been premiered to mixed reviews, including criticism of a weak plot, and this is not really surprising.
For a guy who has jealously guarded his privacy, the film's frankness is surprising.
Service to start with was very slow, although not surprising when you have 2 waiters for a full restaurant.
That this quality is rarely discerned in his other signed paintings is hardly surprising, given the restricted subject matter of those works.
I am, of course, not suggesting that I find this degree of learnedness surprising in a biologist.
But more surprising is the number of independent people wanting to take on such a responsible position.
That surprising, sinking, excited feeling may be the essence of thought as felt experience, rather than as bare abstraction.
An accomplished pianist, Edward Said wrote some of the most surprising and sharp essays on music.
Using jabs to keep the bigger man at bay and hard rights to stun him time after time, Ellis handled Bonavena with surprising ease.
This is all the more surprising considering his brutality, corruption and human rights abuses were virtually unparalleled.
Coming from a patriarchal society, the responses to such questionnaires are interesting, if not very surprising.
It was uncomplicated to prepare and surprising toothsome to a die-hard meat muncher.
Given Cox's past, it is hardly surprising he acquired such coping mechanisms.
Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.
That's hardly surprising given the salt spray and leaky roof in the current place.
In such a situation, it is not surprising that people will resort to desperate measures.
Therefore, it's not surprising when a gifted producer tries to take a star turn on the other side of the boards.
Delving into zydeco music and with a surprising new lyrical approach, Graceland was a highly successful musical experiment.
Then the boy struggled and resisted in a most surprising manner considering that he was clearly violating the law.
However, the losses in market value are distributed unevenly, with some regions showing a surprising resilience to the market upheaval.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was not surprising that all the world loved her, and those who dwelt in the sky most of all.
It is not surprising that Stewart approximates in various directions to the doctrines of the empirical school.
To Alden, who knew the false-hearted beauty so well, all this was surprising.
The savage way in which he bayed the sheriff, however, and tried to get at him as Liz held him in leash, was really surprising.
After all it is not surprising that but three bevies remained of the sixty.
That he should detest the corrupt and oppressive forms of religion of his own century was neither surprising nor blamable.
The knowledge of naturalists respecting reptiles or Amphibia has been increased in a surprising manner of late years.
That this should occur while I was confined in the bull pen was, perhaps, not so surprising.
I crossed the Catskill Mountains and got that surprising panoramic view of the land beyond from the top.
There is not in chymistry a phenomenon more extraordinary, and more surprising, than the firing of Oils by mixing them with Acids.
Is it surprising that the public is clamoring for the complete elimination of the breweries?
The sight of a crofting village is at first rather surprising to one accustomed to large towns.
Its cysticercoid develops in the body cavity of a surprising range of meal-infesting insects.
He has a most surprising memory, and is quite the pride of his schoolmaster.
Did his down-to-earth touch account for Updraft's surprising audience appeal?
But without a current established, it is surprising in turn to find how obstinately and elusively immovable it can be.
The fact was not surprising, but the remark was disquieting.
This was not surprising, for the den was only half a mile away.
If we are well informed, the point of departure for this surprising journey is to be the island of Zanzibar, upon the eastern coast.
But if, in the reaction of disgust, I have betaken myself to a fishy eye, there has been a surprising similarity of result.
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