Sentence examples for surprisingly tall from inspiring English sources
I needed someone who was physically a little bit menacing – David is surprisingly tall.
Your hint: This country is home to a number of wooden churches — some with surprisingly tall spires — dating from the 15th to 18th centuries.
After years of neglect, the churches — rough-hewn, idiosyncratic wooden structures with surprisingly tall spires — seem to be in danger of disappearing.
Twickenham old-timers tell you he was surprisingly tall for a No10, haughtily dominant with it, and "the best punting fly England ever had".
Two sitka spruce have sprouted from the peat and grown surprisingly tall, incongruously sharp and dark amid the white, tundra-like tableland.
He looked down at me (Murray is surprisingly tall), his hair now grey, but still as skewwhiff as Venkman's after a ghost shootout.
The New Yorker, November 22 , 1999P. 202 Briefly Noted review of "Before You Sleep" (Viking; $23.95) by Linn Ullmann, translated from the Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally...While this could be yet another long complaint about men's deficiencies in love, it is also a story of family secrets, surprisingly pleasing tall tales, and unexpected tenderness.
Architecturally eccentric, the 1891 courthouse is surprisingly bulky and tall for this small town.
As the best raconteurs do, Mr. Cutrone treated facts as flexible elements, although surprisingly often the tall tales he related turned out to have been true.
As well as a surprisingly frank autobiography, Tall Tales - "all my own work," she joked - she is a contributing editor for Tatler magazine.
Not surprisingly, all of our tall cell variants were BRAF-positive, which is consistent with the generally accepted idea that tall cell variant has the highest rate of BRAF positivity (around 80% [ 14]).
