Sentence examples for surprise raises from inspiring English sources

I say, "This is so fundamentally bogus!" Chris, to my surprise, raises his face from his eyepiece and laughs and nods vigorously.

But an extramarital affair is, to say the least, a surprise, raising questions about whether some other element had been tangled up in the affair, or magnified or even more important than the affair.

In the wake of Google's stand against censorship of its search engine in China and its consideration to cease business operations in the country altogether, Baidu – to Wall Street's surprise – raised its sales forecasts for the first quarter of 2010, projecting total revenues ranging from $176 million to $181 million, representing a 48%to52%2% year-over-year increase.

All these surprises raise an alternative explanation.

And its many personal touches, combined with pleasant culinary surprises, raise this sprightly little storefront restaurant a few notches above the usual.

There were surprise companywide raises, too.

It came as a complete surprise, and raises a series of questions.

That last line is a surprise and raises the Kremlinological issue of the regime's concern for appearances.

Mr Brown announced that the House of Commons would vote next week on legislation mandating a referendum, to be held by October 2011, on switching from the first-past-the-post system (FPTP) hitherto used in Westminster elections to the "alternative vote" method (AV) used in Australia.This surprise manoeuvre raises two main questions.

The second piece of pipe inside the well head came as something of a surprise, and raises the possibility that one of the sections of pipe became jammed in the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer, though which the well pipes run.

There are also unintentionally funny observations like "The retroussé nose still surprises," which raises the question: when were you last surprised by Julie Andrews's nose?