Sentence examples for a violent surprise from inspiring English sources

The thick red scar where her right breast had been was a violent surprise, like a gash in an oil portrait of a mother and her children.

And yet both are far more complex than initial meetings suggest: Elizabeth backtracking on previous reports that Phil might not be entirely commited to the cause, attempting to keep her kids separate from her work; Phillip sending round a violent surprise for Errol, and seeing off Timochev with his bare hands.

In an article for Bryn Mawr Now, a campus newsletter, Hannah had once described the "violent surprise" and loneliness of returning home from a trip to Ghana.

A canal is a controlled waterway and is not subject to the violent surprises of the sea.

There are no violent surprises, and little in the way of formal invention.

Streep said she was familiar with the British movement but "the fact that it was violent" surprised her greatly.

Last year's left-field choice, "A Most Violent Year," surprised awards prognosticators, and "Mad Max" is in a similar position because, as a big-budget epic released in May, its Oscar potential is one of the season's biggest question marks.

Later, she surprised me again by mentioning that she had once been the victim of a violent street crime.

A violent stalemate.

A violent game.

A violent crime is erupting.