Sentence examples for surprising upset from inspiring English sources

It was a surprising upset in the face….

Mr. Toback's victory in 1999 was perhaps the most surprising upset.

After another surprising upset, this time of (3) Martina Navratilova, (8) Justine Henin now faces (2) Steffi Graf, who easily beat (4) Serena Williams in the semifinals.

It was a surprising upset in the face of the predictions of the press, TV & pollsters that a Labour victory was virtually assured.

A more surprising upset was the Argentine qualifier Agustin Calleri's four-set victory over 14th-seeded Dominik Hrbaty, Kucera's Slovak Davis Cup teammate.

Brown won the Senate seat previously held by the late Edward M. Kennedy (D) in a special election last year, a surprising upset.

Paulus and his new Syracuse teammates had been on the verge of pulling off one of the more surprising upsets of the opening weekend of college football.

Testifying in the Ed O'Bannon case in 2014, the N.C.A.A.'s president, Mark Emmert, called the players' amateur status "essential" to "competitive balance". Last month, he described the appeal of the men's basketball tournament precisely as the opportunity for surprising upsets; his example was Mercer beating Duke in the opening round of the 2014 tournament.

But that's not to say a few true Tea Party candidates won't win some surprising upsets in Republican primaries.

My research also took me back to one of the more surprising upsets of last week, when the Dolphins manhandled the Patriots in the second half for the victory.

Back in the day (or before the shot clock), some men's basketball teams, with little talent facing long odds, were able to pull off surprising upsets and keep many games close against much stronger and talented college squads.