Sentence examples for mean an unexpected from inspiring English sources

And on to "You Know What I Mean," an unexpected nod to gospel.

That may mean an unexpected knock on the front door of the millionaire mansions but even the fatigued Murray would agree that is better than a knock on reputation, however slight it may be.

"I knew that in Swahili, 'dafina' means an unexpected gift," she says.

At Lord's that means an unexpected chance for Jonny Bairstow alongside his Yorkshire team-mate Joe Root in the middle order.

But the increasing use of contemporary songs in movies, video games and advertisements has meant an unexpected windfall for lesser-known and midlevel artists.

That meant an unexpected reprieve for John Heitinga, who was at fault for all three Aston Villa goals at Goodison last Saturday – his worst display in an Everton shirt, he later confessed – and West Bromwich Albion's consolation before that.

The heavy snowfall in counties Derry and Tyrone has meant an unexpected day off for thousands of schoolchildren, but it also meant an unexpected night at work for some staff at Altnagelvin hospital.

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The recent HBO movie Game Change, which chronicled the surprise entry of Sarah Palin into the 2008 vice-presidential candidate lineup, in this context meant an unexpected event or person(s) who appear onstage in a situation, which alters a predictable, orthodox outcome.

The work of Yamano et al. indicates that Parkin activates Rab7, perhaps by placing chains of a protein called ubiquitin on mitochondria, which would mean that an unexpected new step in this pathway remains to be discovered.

Croesus looked up the definition of "windfall profit" and discovered it means "a sudden unexpected profit".