Sentence examples for immediate surprise from inspiring English sources

But pulling the pile apart and examining each rifle produced an immediate surprise, below.

"The image of terra incognita, of a savage land, persists and is promoted, so when you mention culture and writers, that produces an immediate surprise in most people".

One immediate surprise is that so few genetic instructions are required for the development and maintenance of a fly, compared with the number known to be needed by other organisms.

Launching an immediate surprise attack on Syria, Cheney tells us in his memoirs, would not only "make the region and the world safer, but it would also demonstrate our seriousness with respect to nonproliferation".

An immediate surprise was that rab7 null mutant photoreceptors showed no obvious developmental defects, but instead showed phenotypes that were reminiscent of a sensory neuropathy (including age-dependent and activity-dependent synaptic loss, and also progressive degeneration of photoreceptor neurons).

Of course, Custer and his men had more immediate surprises to worry about.

When the data watchdog warned that as many as 2.4 million customers might have had their details snatched from the company's server, the immediate response was surprise that they actually had a server.

The book, which paired original prose from Jane Austen's classic with some new additions which made Austen's characters out to be zombie hunters, was a surprise immediate success, with over a million copies in print.

During the conversation the pope was asked about his feelings regarding gay priests, and he had this to say: "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" When I first learned about Pope Francis' comments, my immediate reaction was surprise, followed quickly by excitement.

I've been focusing my attention on the more immediate issues lately: the surprise pile of steaming baby poop on the wooden bathroom floor, the removal of the knife-block that's been looming on the back of the swinging kitchen door, struggling with the choice to walk the baby through the woods instead of answering my emails and running my business.

The oldsters scored worse than the youngsters in the immediate test, which was no surprise.