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

It has been asserted that we never feel surprise in our dreams; and that we do not reason on the subjects which they present to us.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

It is not to be wondered at that the little Lalee should feel surprise at an apparition,—so unexpected, in such a place, and under such circumstances.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne