Sentence for surprise | Use surprise in a sentence

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• His surprise was great. (4)
• This is rather a surprise. (8)
• Did that surprise you, or not? (8)
• Then, to her surprise, he went. (8)
• She was a surprise to his soul. (18)
• I have a surprise for Mr. Richie. (10)
• Verrian looked at her in surprise. (9)
• Soames sniffed from sheer surprise. (8)
• Clara looked at him in some surprise. (10)
• Another ridiculous surprise, I suppose. (9)
• This cannot have taken you by surprise. (4)
• Edmund expressed his pleasure and surprise. (4)
• That mournful surprise sobered him at once. (8)
• But more than dread, he felt a deep surprise. (8)
• Sir Thomas looked at her with deeper surprise. (4)
• Our meeting was no great surprise to either of us. (10)
• To his surprise, she acquiesced without hesitation. (8)
• She looked at it with an effect of surprise and doubt. (9)
• Somewhat to his surprise Bosinney asked him a question. (8)
• The language, in particular, filled them with surprise. (2)
• She likes a trifling surprise too, and there she has it. (10)
• He had merely intended a surprise and gratification to her. (10)
• And slowly he descended, full of a sort of very deep surprise. (8)
• He would speak if he could, but his surprise is too excessive. (8)
• If it succeeded they could tell her what it was, for a surprise. (9)
• The fact is, I thought I would surprise her by joining her here. (9)
• All this Wahnschaffe told me half diffidently, half in surprise. (12)
• Lavender, noticing their surprise, attributed it to the word tea. (8)
• Its position, then, had the added charms of surprise and novelty. (20)
• The surprise of your refusal, Fanny, seems to have been unbounded. (4)
• Edward came on at Worcester and Willis at Framingham, to surprise me. (9)
• He called out to her; she stopped and nodded, and showed no surprise. (12)
• He had intended to ask her to help him prepare a surprise for his aunt. (5)
• Marianne, to the surprise of her sister, determined on dining with them. (4)
• The captain, taken by surprise, bowed, and flowed in ardent commonplace. (10)
• The appearance of the latter could not be more than the surprise of the moment. (4)
• It came upon her as a surprise that one like herself should be allowed to live. (10)
• Surprise, exaggerated on his face by a pain he had anticipated, made the squire glare hideously. (22)
• The amount of his tip assuaged the deprecation and surprise of the head-waiter. (12)
• If magic made them pliable for his use, Magician he could be by planned surprise. (10)
• She received me with equal surprise though not with equal Cordiality, as Philippa. (4)
• It did not surprise, but it grieved Anne to observe that Elizabeth would not know him. (4)
• Here, to my surprise, I find a gigantic new R. C. Cathedral, See of the Bishop of Kerry. (14)
• So Victor heard, and he doated am the surprise to come for him, in a boyish anticipation. (10)
• All these things excited in me no surprise, nor even curiosity; they were merely unfamiliar. (7)
• The news that Lord Miltoun was in the study came as a surprise, and somewhat of a relief to all. (8)
• I think now that I exaggerated its value somewhat; but this was inevitable in the first surprise. (9)
• Eight Indians, pretending to barter furs, went on board two English ships and tried to surprise them. (19)
• There was just then the interest of a not wholly generous surprise at American things among the English. (9)
• The vice-consul suppressed any surprise he might have felt at a decision given with mystifying cheerfulness. (9)
• The boss was taken all by surprise when the other show sprang the natural curiosity, but he was quick to act. (21)
• And this was surely happy; since in a surprise in August 1703, he lost his mule, his portfolios, and his Bible. (2)
• He found to his surprise that his heart dropped under some burden, as if he had no longer force to sustain it. (10)
• She thinks it so natural to be made love to, that there is neither any affected coyness nor any agitated surprise. (6)
• She put her hand impulsively across the goat-skin, and gave his, with which he took it in some surprise, a quick clasp. (9)
• Lady Jocelyn struck both her hands on the table, and rested her large grey eyes, full of humorous surprise, on Mr. George. (10)
• The other remained coldly unaffected, after a first start of surprise at his cordiality, and then reviled the dust and heat. (9)
• To her surprise, her father became violently enraged, and uttered a stern prohibition, speaking a word that stained her cheeks. (10)
• He had a surprise in pickle for the old chap who had served the Forsytes four-and-fifty years-a treat that was entirely his doing. (8)
• At this time the strongest of the western forts was Detroit, and this fort Pontiac had arranged to surprise and seize by strategy. (19)
• But Boleskey, after drinking up his wine, had sunk again into his seat; and there suddenly, to the surprise of all, he began to snore. (8)
• It suggested no other surprise than that Elinor and Marianne should sit so composedly by, without claiming a share in what was passing. (4)
• She could not suppress a slight surprise of fear, for this display showed a dealing with hidden things, and a summoning of scattered spirits. (10)
• He desired to shape her character to the feminine of his own, and betrayed the surprise of a slight disappointment at her advocacy of her ideas. (10)
• The bridegroom, with his best man, in whom his few acquaintances there recognised Boardman with some surprise, came over the chancel from one side. (9)

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