unexpected

How To Use unexpected In A Sentence

• I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games
• It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
• The cash raising was not unexpected and allows a few more shareholders on board. Times, Sunday Times
• The radioactive gas xenon, which is often the byproduct of unexpected nuclear fission, was detected at the Fukushima Daiichi plant during tests. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• What is the common factor of unexpected packages in a pear tree? Times, Sunday Times
• These build and swell into clouds, suddenly breaking apart and dispersing unexpectedly.
• After too much airtime is devoted to the quartet's training, the contest itself throws up an unexpected hero. Times, Sunday Times
• The questions were evidently unexpected to the slow-witted spokesman, who instantly found himself tongue-tied.
• The crowd whooped and hollered at the unexpected entertainment.
• I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.