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Example sentences for: unexpected

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Democratic candidates in the South who actively supported legalized gambling measures (with the state's share of the take earmarked for education) scored unexpected victories over anti-gambling GOP opponents.
He was also not entirely familiar with English money and mistakenly paid her fifteen guineas, thus leaving Lady Coventry smiling at her unexpected gain of a further fifteen scheling (or was it shelin, seling, or even chelin?).
In an editorial Friday, the Jerusalem Post found encouragement in Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara's speech at the White House Wednesday, despite his frostiness and his unexpected refusal to shake the Israeli prime minister's hand.
Le Monde ran a front-page article about unexpected difficulties facing the new single European currency, the euro.
An article finds "feminism" in an unexpected place: primitive, forest-dwelling tribes.