feel surprise

Example Sentences

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Brains also operate through anticipation; you feel surprise when your brain incorrectly predicts something.

From Science Magazine • May 31, 2022

I guess no one can blame him for that, but given what we know of his character, no one could feel surprise.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2014

So, don't feel surprise to hear ZTE has just launched a 5-inch smartphone in Beijing, dubbed Nubia Z5.

From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2013

Her cousin, Lora Lovelace, had not failed to feel surprise at those lonely rides—lonely from choice—since her own companionship had been repeatedly declined.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

The reader will scarcely feel surprise to learn that the monks—with the single exception of the Franciscans—now judged that the time for them to leave the city had arrived.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn