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Example sentences for: surprised

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In fact, it was his stern, ridiculous policemanese--"Step away from the vehicle!"--that surprised me, since I'm, you know, white, and middle-aged, and wear glasses.
The Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , and New York Times all lead with the raucous reception the top Clinton foreign policy figures were surprised to receive when they appeared at a town-hall-style discussion of Iraq in Columbus, Ohio.
This surprised me; generally, I'm a big believer in matching the guidebook to the destination, and I probably would have chosen Lonely Planet to wander real jungles instead of urban ones.
In fact, most of my other Internet programs appeared to be functioning normally, which surprised me, since I expected, as Microsoft has argued, that my version of Windows would be severely crippled.
If a drug dealer were to rattle off lists of narcotics words, the English speaker would be surprised at all the familiar sounds: California, sunshine, gelatina (gelatin), and gelé jelly, for instance, are cryptic nicknames for drugs in general.