Sentence examples for surprising extent from inspiring English sources

These customs persist to a surprising extent.

Anthropology and fiction, they overlap to a surprising extent.

They succeeded to a great if not entirely surprising extent, and quickly.

To a surprising extent, one can glimpse a culture by studying a brain.

But to a surprising extent, it was simply a response to John Edwards.

The latter is required because the play is, to a surprising extent, a religious light comedy.

Instead, our behavior is determined to a surprising extent by the situation.

It wants to be fun and, to a perhaps surprising extent, it is.

To a surprising extent, the perception seems to be that the European situation is under control.

References to actual personages crowd Ginsberg's work to a surprising extent, especially considering his reputation as a trippy generalizer.

People are to a surprising extent what they imagine themselves to be every time they get dressed, Ms. Landis said.