Sentence examples for a sort of surprised from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a sort of surprised" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when describing a feeling or reaction that is somewhat surprising but not fully so.
Example: "She had a sort of surprised look on her face when she heard the news."
Alternatives: "somewhat surprised" or "kind of surprised."

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She gives me a sort of surprised stare.

And he looked at me, with a sort of surprised and intense look on his face, and he said, did you have a heart thing a few years ago?

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A: Sort of.

And I was sort of surprised that I was surprised.

When we drove into the city, we were sort of surprised to see a lot of physical beauty ― homes that are colonial in many respects, mid-century; homes that are ornate and quite lovely.

I was sort of surprised that I was a tennis player".

I was sort of surprised, because I had written a lot of critical stuff about the president during the campaign, and I knew that the Bush people didn't like that.

In 2013 and 2014 I received the same letter about Spike, which caused me to wonder: If ASPCA is doing so much to help animals, I'm sort of surprised they don't have a more recent case to write about!

Which again is why I'm sort of surprised Apple itself hasn't made a move here.

"They were looking around for a place to call home in the city and were just sort of surprised by it," he said.

This is a bullshit, Lake District way of putting it, but I feel I am sort of surprised to go outside and find there are still stars.

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