Sentence examples for early surprised from inspiring English sources

"The Scottsboro Boys," a musical mash-up of history and minstrelsy that closed early, surprised many on Tuesday by receiving 12 nominations.

An early surprise might be that as a young woman Barbara Cartland showed signs of being a gifted writer.

The teams mirror each other in style so much that the only early surprise was the slow scoring pace.

One early surprise has been the linguistic diversity of books sent over: besides English, there have been Portuguese, Hebrew and Arabic titles, among others.

The big early surprise was Christoph Waltz's win for Best Supporting Actor, but that Oscar should have tipped us off to Tarantino winning, hours later, for Best Original Screenplay.

Executives at Fox and NBC both called ABC's performance on Tuesday this week one of the biggest early surprises of the season.

An early surprise was simply the appearance of 67P – the comet's "dirty snowball" nickname had led even scientists to expect something more bland and uniform in appearance.

Then came two early surprises, with Adelaide being outbid by GWS at No16 on Harrison Himmelberg and the Crows using pick 17 to recruit Tom Doedee.

But mostly, I wanted to keep an eye on Keith Price, who I watched in person last weekend in Seattle, and who, in taking over for Jake Locker, was easily one of the nation's early surprises this season.

Among the early surprises in the first days of the Stanley Cup playoffs was the play of three veterans whose best days were supposedly behind them: Montreal's Scott Gomez, Nashville's Steve Sullivan and Detroit's Todd Bertuzzi.

That's Calgary's record as of Monday, good enough to give them eight points and place them seventh in the West, only four points behind the Hertl-ing Sharks and this year's other early surprise team, the Colorado Avalanche.