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Example sentences for: surprised

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

Don’t be surprised to find offices, shops, and restaurants living side by side with the brothels here — it’s all part of Amsterdam life.
So I was surprised to learn that many of the clinicians caring for group members provided considerably less information, guidance, and support.
I suppose some readers will be surprised to find such a sexy, delicately doom-laden poem by Robert Frost as "To Earthward."
Knocked for a feather meaning `greatly surprised' could be a humorous blend of knocked for a loop and knocked over with a feather , just as fleazy is perhaps a blend of flea and sleazy . To go on a bilge or drinking spree used by three Northern informants is perhaps an alteration of to go on a binge , or perhaps a punning alteration, or perhaps a pronunciation variant, with l substituted for n , as in chimney/chimley . For lack of evidence, all of these derivations are essentially guesses.
who stirs inarticulate passion by singing very much like a woman" (Mark Levine, The New Yorker ). Critics are surprised by the success of the New York City Opera at transposing Handel's piece from ancient Greece to 18 th -century England.