unexpectedly
Example Sentences
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The discovery came unexpectedly while Lima and her team were studying two simple liquids in collaboration with ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering Company.
From Science Daily
Petite and Black, with hundreds of tiny braids cascading down her back, she walked with unexpectedly long strides, eating up the pavement while looking straight ahead, body framed by late-afternoon summer sunlight.
From Literature
He would have to find a way to reprimand the Afterlife for sending a wandering soul so unexpectedly.
From Literature
But an undercover DEA investigation targeting Honduras’s government, led by the agency’s elite Special Operations Division, unexpectedly ensnared the nephews.
These earnings beats appear to be more of a surprise, and because investors tend to cling to their prior beliefs, they underreact to the unexpectedly good news.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
