surprisingly
IPA: sɝprˈaɪzɪŋɫi
adverb
- In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.
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Examples of "surprisingly" in Sentences
- The baby was surprisingly composed.
- The meetings were surprisingly cordial.
- The rest of the article is surprisingly accurate.
- The writing in the prologue is surprisingly prosaic.
- But surprisingly, he's often the savior of the game.
- It fits into the flow of the text surprisingly well.
- The churchyard is surprisingly secluded and peaceful.
- His theme, not surprisingly, is French Cabernet Franc.
- Both parents incubate but are surprisingly inattentive.
- The finish is surprisingly long for the alcoholic strength.
- Not surprisingly, the friends gushed that their pal was trustworthy.
- Seated in surprisingly comfortable wicker chairs, we were promptly presented with menus and the wine list.
- If economic data come in surprisingly good over the coming weeks - or inflation shows signs of rising - the Fed might not intervene.
- The reason I use the term "surprisingly" is because I typically listen to WBBR on my radio in the background for a large part of the day.
- MacLean suggests Santa Margherita Prosecco Di Valdobbiadene Brut, from Italy, which she describes as surprisingly rich and toasty, yet packed with luscious peach and pear notes.
- However, the New York-based publisher of the "Grand Theft Auto" videogame franchise outperformed its own reduced expectations, and it boosted its fiscal 2008 guidance due to better-than-expected first-quarter results and what it described as surprisingly strong preorders of its latest "Grand Theft Auto" game, due April 29.
- The God of science, not surprisingly, is made in the image of science: He is a kind of fundamental force - a non-living, mechanistic force whose behavior is a consequence not of will but of the playing out of potential according to a super-complicated mathematical formula, explainable by a unified theory that we haven't quite figured out yet, that encompasses and explains the underlying inter-dynamics of physics, chemistry, biology, and sociology all at once.
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