Explore Surprise through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like move or storm. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Surprise meaning
- Something unexpected.
- A mess of feces, left by a pet or small child in an unexpected place or at an unexpected time.
Synonyms of Surprise
Surprise vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Surprise
- The main meaning on this page is: Something unexpected. | Something unexpected. | A mess of feces, left by a pet or small child in an unexpected place or at an unexpected time.
- Useful related words include: move, storm, act, strike.
- Possible Dutch translations are: verrassing, verrassings-, verbazen.
- In the example corpus, surprise often appears in combinations such as: surprise surprise, no surprise, surprise that.
Example sentences (20)
Last EPS Surprise greater than or equal to 10%: Stocks delivering positive surprise in the last quarter tend to surprise again.
But I think a surprise will come for the executive very soon when the judges start issuing judgments against the government and surprise surprise they all have security of tenure.
Barclays asked more than 400 institutional investors the same question: If there is a surprise in global growth in the next 12 months, it will be an: a) upside surprise b) around consensus c) downside surprise.
Miraculously the Long Lost Family team discover Harvey was not the only one looking; Vera appeared on ITV’s Surprise Surprise back in 1988 to appeal for information about the whereabouts of the baby who’d been left on her doorstep.
Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show featured a surprise pregnancy reveal, and the Los Osos dance team had a surprise special guest themselves.
Say again, 40. And — surprise, surprise!
The crew has made some new friends but is still stewing over old traumas when, surprise, surprise, another Ghostface killer emerges and starts slaying co-eds across the city—while implicating Sam in the murders.
This has been one of the most-anticipated surprise songs (one of the others being “Long Live” which she’s yet to play) so the audience this night will long be remembered as some of the winners of the The Eras Tour Surprise Song Marathon.
We´re already preventing insurance companies from sending surprise medical bills, stopping 1 million surprise bills a month.
Young Fathers was a surprise, but the kind of surprise I welcome greatly.
And — surprise, surprise — people are racing to milk the system for all they can get.
In the first update, he writes, “This morning she’s on her phone and surprise surprise looking up more Glenn Powell stuff.
Mould a damp environment and surprise surprise that includes your washing machine, particularly the seal.
Surprise, surprise, that shit hurts.
Surprise, surprise, the advice from Moneyfarm is for adult kids to save now in case their inheritance isn't as much as they were bargaining on.
The scene also had viewers at home in disbelief, with one person commenting on social media: "Surprise surprise.
To our great surprise and the surprise of many others, we were able to overcome all of these barriers.
Well, I had gotten an email from her boyfriend, Chris Martin, and he told me that he was planning a surprise birthday party for her, that I was her favorite comedian, and that he wanted to surprise her with me.
A boss, parent, teacher or someone in authority might surprise you today, but it will be a fun surprise!
And, surprise surprise, Amazon is being less than forthcoming with information about the outbreak.
Common combinations with surprise
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- surprise surprise 56×
- no surprise 19×
- surprise that 16×
- the surprise 16×
- and surprise 13×
- surprise the 13×
- to surprise 11×
- surprise for 8×
- as surprise 8×
- pleasant surprise 7×