surprise
Example Sentences
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Places in Arizona like Goodyear, Buckeye, Surprise and Avondale all have topped 100,000 residents and grew at least 4.5%.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Surprise — much less pleasant surprise — is a rare sensation these days.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
It was arguably not his acting that first propelled him to global celebrity, but his 1985 marriage to pop star Madonna, with whom he co-starred in the universally-panned 1986 mega-flop "Shanghai Surprise."
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
Surprise package: Arijit Singh, one of India's biggest playback singers, was the second most popular musician of the year on YouTube in London.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
When it didn’t, the halls filled up with the scent of Hamburger-and-Pepper Surprise, a scent that lingered like the smell of a dead animal caught underneath the floorboards.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing surprise
Emotions on Display
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Commonly Misspelled Words, List 6
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 1–3
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