surprise
Example Sentences
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A music teacher who flew home early from her holiday to perform at a surprise gig said she did not know she would be duetting with Ed Sheeran until she arrived.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Raw or actual claims did jump by some 38,000 in the most recent week to 228,000, but it’s really no surprise.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger expressed his surprise that Trump “used it on everything,” from “every rally through the election campaign.”
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
The buzz: Turkey could be one of the surprise teams in the tournament after qualifying for the World Cup for the first time since 2002 with a pair of 1-0 wins over Romania and Kosovo.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Karli got to the window before I did, which irritated me, because to my mind this was my birthday—my surprise, not his.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing surprise
Emotions on Display
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Commonly Misspelled Words, List 6
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 1–3
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