Sentence examples for a somewhat surprise from inspiring English sources

Texas left-hander Martin Perez, was a somewhat surprise pick as the starter over veterans Derek Holland and Colby Lewis, and gave up four runs and six hits.

Matthew McConaughey was a somewhat surprise winner for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama (Dallas Buyer's Club).

IN JULY 1940, a somewhat-surprised, Brazilian-born student at the aeronautical department of the California Institute of Technology received a letter from his father, asking him to take charge of his mother and dispatch her to Brazzaville in central Africa, where she would apparently be safe.

The figures were released in a quarterly financial update that Yasuo Sakuma, portfolio manager at Bayview Asset Management, described as "a somewhat negative surprise".

I was somewhat surprise it could hack it.

Based on previous reports of sleep inertia (reviewed in reference [ 15]), we expected to see a decline in PVT performance following a nap, but were somewhat surprised by the magnitude of this decline.

So I guess to a degree, I'm somewhat surprised.

I was somewhat surprised too that the prime minister didn't express a view".

"I'm somewhat surprised by this".

Somewhat surprised I have to say.

Ms. Schaeffer seemed somewhat surprised at the surprise.