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Example sentences for: surprise

How can you use “surprise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For instance, when buying candy, the vendor may add one extra piece, de pilón, to surprise and make a child happy.
Combine those fortunes with Clinton's support of affirmative action and his appointments of blacks to Cabinet positions--and 12 years of Republican assaults on equal opportunity--and it should come as no surprise that blacks are enthusiastic about this president.
That is, a surprise cocaine high that strikes at random.
The mayor's surprise at being booed was not entirely disingenuous.
Computer pioneers John Von Neumann and Alan Turing were also mentioned--big surprise that their names should crop up in an Internet forum.