Sentence examples for unlikely surprise from inspiring English sources

Hard to imagine that anyone would have picked him up for their Fantasy team, but if anyone out there was sufficiently desperate then this would be quite the unlikely surprise indeed.

Both Chang and Anthes note that cold surges of winds from high latitudes penetrate close to the equator only in the South China Sea, making an equatorial hurricane an unlikely surprise anywhere else on the globe.

When a fisherman caught a bull shark recently off the Florida Keys, he came across an unlikely surprise: One of the shark's live fetuses had two heads.

The menu is unlikely to surprise: au poivre this, marinière that, de-rigueur everything.

His departure from the Walker is unlikely to surprise the art world.

Darling says it's unlikely (no surprise there, sorry), but he does also provide a bit of detail.

In a finding unlikely to surprise the city's cyclists, about 40 percent of injured riders were hit by taxis, compared with 25 percent of the pedestrians.

Downgrades would be unlikely to surprise many investors, who have known for months about the constraints and dangers posed by regulation and the European debt crisis.

The findings are unlikely to surprise Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the online retailer Amazon, who claims to have had "an idyllic childhood".

The news is unlikely to surprise publishers as they gather in Los Angeles Friday for the second day of BookExpo America, the industry's yearly convention.

The corporation argued that as the film was one of the most influential and best known of recent years it was unlikely to "surprise or offend" viewers.