Word Finder - surprises

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Something unexpected.

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It was a surprise to find out I owed twice as much as I thought I did.

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The feeling that something unexpected has happened.

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Imagine my surprise on learning I owed twice as much as I thought I did.

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A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.

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To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.

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It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.

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To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.

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He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.

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To undergo or witness something unexpected.

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He doesn’t surprise easily.

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To cause surprise.

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To attack unexpectedly.

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To take unawares.

He's full of surprises, isn't he?

I guess I just like surprises.

You are full of surprises.

Every one in the family prepared surprises for me, but what pleased me most, Miss Sullivan and I prepared surprises for everybody else.

Now it is true that the critic must be unconscious of some of the subtlest charms and nicest delicacies of language who would exclude from humorous writing all those impressions and surprises which depend on the use of the diverse sense of words.

When the effort to restrain feeling is exhibited in a degree which surprises as well as pleases, it excites admiration as a virtue or excellence; such excellences Adam Smith quaintly calls the " awful and respectable," contrasting them with the " amiable virtues " which consist in the opposite effort to sympathize, when exhibited in a remarkable degree.

It was so insidious in people's minds, and so full of surprises.

He was profound in a way that surprises me.

Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his wife's infidelities, Justin surprises himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous odyssey.

Katie waited until he was gone then shook her head, tired of Immortal surprises.

With Alex, it surfaced in a love of surprises.

When algebra had advanced to the point where exponents were introduced, nothing would be more natural than that their utility as a means of performing multiplications and divisions should be remarked; but it is one of the surprises in the history of science that logarithms were invented as an arithmetical improvement years before their connexion with exponents was known.

He must always be read, whether lovingly or interestedly, for he has all the variable charm, the strange saturninity, the contradictions, austerities and delightful surprises, of Nature herself.

At times he showed qualities as a guerillero quite equal to those of the Carlists, like Zumalacarregui and Cabrera, by his daring marches and surprises.

Remembering the surprises that the battles in Spain had provided for the marshals opposed to the duke, he massed nearly the whole of Reille's corps before he advanced.

Naval expeditions from Berenice and Myoshormus to the Arabian ports brought back the information on which Claudius Ptolemy constructed his map, which still surprises us by its wealth of geographical names.

She snatched one of the handguns out of the small arms chest and aimed it at his head, fed up with surprises.

Just when he thought there were no more surprises … At least he had a way into the underworld.

There was no spontaneity – or surprises – to her.

The story is rich with surprises, which never feels exploitative.

While a small part may reflect improved tax compliance and prove more enduring, such surprises have proven fleeting in the past.

The story is pretty much your usual sci-fi horror fare, with little in the way of surprises.

But the UK version produced by September Films contains too much enforced jollity and not enough genuine surprises.

The set converts from railroad station to grand hotel to vampire's lair in a twinkling and has lots of surprises.

From the magnificent orangery built in 1789 to the impressive gothic Mansion House, Margam Country Park has surprises around every corner.

Your love escape ticket contains six romantic surprises specially designed to guide you and your lover through and evening of exciting and sensual pleasures.

Ducks do n't quack all the time but can be vocal if something surprises them.

But the ex-Soviet republic is a country of surprises, with good restaurants, cool bars and friendly locals notable amid the poverty.

If you are first down a rope rigged by someone else in your absence - beware unpleasant surprises!

Mary Greene samples seasonal surprises at an authentic Swedish smorgasbord New Year, new holiday?

Usually, the gathering of the faithful is so heavily stage-managed by the leadership that there are no surprises.

A professional builder should explain things clearly to ensure that there are no nasty surprises!

But firms can't hide behind a spider's web of hidden surprises and get-out clauses.

What surprises me more than anything is the rather trite response from the local authorities.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

The three tables that started were gradually whittled down to a final table, producing a few surprises along the way.

Not even the pleasure of ruining the Liberals was sufficient to persuade the Conservatives to vote for a measure which would transfer the power from the well-to-do to the indigent, and Hohenwart justly complained that they ought to have been secure against surprises of this kind.

Starting with a visit to Piombino, on the coast opposite Elba, he went by way of Siena to Urbino, where he made drawings and began works; was thence hastily summoned by way of Pesaro and Rimini to Cesena; spent two months between there and Cesenatico, projecting and directing canal and harbour works, and planning the restoration of the palace of Frederic II.; thence hurriedly joined his master, momentarily besieged by enemies at Imola; followed him probably to Sinigaglia and Perugia, through the whirl of storms and surprises, vengeances and treasons, which marked his course that winter, and finally, by way of Chiusi and Acquapendente, as far as Orvieto and probably to Rome, where Caesar arrived on the 14th of February 1503.

It surprises me to find that such an idea has crossed the mind of any one, especially of a highly gifted critic.

Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his wife 's infidelities, Justin surprises himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous odyssey.

If you are first down a rope rigged by someone else in your absence - beware unpleasant surprises !

Staged around a huge serpentine lake with surprises at every turn.

The plan contains a number of surprises, including the fact that RCT supports a skylark population.

A professional builder should explain things clearly to ensure that there are no nasty surprises !

But firms ca n't hide behind a spider 's web of hidden surprises and get-out clauses.

I developed a feeling that viruses of plants may have some unpleasant surprises in store for us, with possibly serious consequences.

She hoped to not live aquotidian life, but one full of surprises and adventures.

She hoped to not live a quotidian life, but one full of surprises and adventures.

Of course, even if you don't find out the gender of your child because you simply love surprises, you can still find plenty of workable nursery bedding that would fit a boy or a girl.

This would eliminate any surprises, and it might make the whole issue become just another simple fact in your child's life.