Sentence examples for surprising invitation from inspiring English sources

More on that surprising invitation later.

The true answer is that it was such a bold and surprising invitation that it would have seemed churlish not to accept it.

The case concerned states' rights, not the Second Amendment, but Justice Thomas took the opportunity to issue what was, in context, a surprising invitation.

After embracing Mister Rogers's "surprising invitation to friendship," Madigan began courting him as a surrogate father, sending his favorite newspaper stories and receiving approving letters in return.

It is an example of what Jung called synchronicity, "a coincidence in time of two or more causally unrelated events which have the same or similar meaning" – in Athill's case, the surprising invitation of the man and his looking like her friend.

I made what turned out to be a surprising invitation to all manner of aspersions, most having something to do with elitism, when I mentioned in one of my recent columns, in a particular context, that I have a horse.

One of the more surprising lecture invitations I have received was to talk to a conference of the "family offices" of "high net worth individuals".

It is not surprising that online invitation services have entered this social terrain.

To some members of Obama's staff, the invitation was surprising: Obama and Holbrooke hardly knew each other, and Holbrooke had firmly supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries.

So it was perhaps not surprising that he declined an invitation to attend the European premiere of the film in London in the days before the Monza race, sending two senior Ferrari officials in his stead, aboard a company jet, to an occasion that attracted a who's-who of Formula One.

But Clemens has said he is looking forward to spending the break with his family, and a person close to him said it would be surprising if he accepted a hasty invitation.