Sentence examples for thus surprised from inspiring English sources

I am thus surprised – but after a few seconds not at all surprised – to hear how well this Palestinian from Jerusalem got on with the Imam Musa Sadr, the Shia leader in southern Lebanon who did more to lift his people from squalor than any I can think of – until Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had him murdered in Libya in 1978.

Handshakeologists the world over were thus surprised when, a couple of months later, Macron invited Trump to France.

"We were thus surprised and disappointed by the subsequent legal action initiated by his production company and agent.

I was thus surprised to find myself warming to, enjoying and finally being oddly moved by his new picture, The Darjeeling Limited, which is the name of a train taken across India by three American brothers.

I was thus surprised when he told me on the station concourse that he'd given up the business; the truth, I suspected, might have been the other way round.

Though of Mancunian stock Bardsley grew up in the can-do mentailty of California and was thus surprised when she began playing for England at her team-mates' relative lack of confidence  "There is a lot of positivity in the bunch now," she said.

Thus, "surprises" constitute an intriguing instrument.

I was thus greatly surprised when, as a young newspaper reporter, I first heard a medical man talk to the contrary.

We were thus not surprised to see a nurse open, inadvertently, a drawer filled with coins in his office.

But we were lured by the words "made here," and thus were happily surprised.

Thus, I was surprised to read that you called Laidislaw a lightweight!