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Example sentences for "unexpectedly"

Lexicographically close words:
unexercised; unexhausted; unexpanded; unexpectant; unexpected; unexpectedness; unexpended; unexperienced; unexpired; unexplainable
  1. To him the parting was unexpectedly trying, but people cannot be shut up together for five months without loving or hating each other.

  2. So it proved, for unexpectedly to us, and I doubt not to the man who shot him (as he supposed), he sprang to his feet and reached the cover of the hill before another shot was fired.

  3. Upon entering the garden, his brother had risen, advanced towards him and asked him what had brought him so unexpectedly to Berlin.

  4. The enraged rat-catcher unexpectedly appeared, this time dressed entirely in red.

  5. He thought he was quite alone, when unexpectedly a little grey man, very old-looking, accosted him and solicited alms.

  6. Macauley walked away with a very red face, at which Burns unexpectedly burst into a laugh, and his good humour came back with a rush.

  7. The bow swung inshore, the rock unexpectedly fell back, and as they drove past its end a narrow basin opened up.

  8. I feel like a man unexpectedly let out of prison.

  9. Next he learned that the Rain Bluff shareholders' meeting, which he had suggested, had been fixed for an unexpectedly early date.

  10. With the morning the threatening aspect of the weather unexpectedly disappeared.

  11. On a certain night, which you well remember, the Princess was unexpectedly summoned to the presence of her father.

  12. Before we went away dear Anna Buxton uttered a few words of supplication, and, very unexpectedly to myself, I did also.

  13. They were very attentive, unexpectedly interested, I thought, in all she said, and touched by her manner.

  14. Strangely enough, in the midst of this accumulated misery, the woman's heart went out with an unconquerable sympathy for the foundling so unexpectedly left at her door.

  15. Unexpectedly brought back to the stern realities of life by a great affliction, I wished to destroy every link that connected me with the six years I had thrown away.

  16. As he proceeded he diverged from the path, and unexpectedly stumbled into a partially made grave.

  17. The lady, however, rather unexpectedly found a positive objection raised against this apparently reasonable arrangement.

  18. On examination, a sum of half-a-crown was unexpectedly discovered in it; but this was accounted for in a manner creditable to his intentions, if not to his success in executing them.

  19. A side gust, blowing powerfully and unexpectedly against a machine, just as it is nearing the ground before alighting, may cause it to tilt to such an angle that it begins a side-slip.

  20. The little fellow carried him by a wild path to the upper of the Falls, the Boniton Linn, and coming down unexpectedly upon it, he was exceedingly affected by the solemn grandeur of the place.

  21. It was exceedingly delightful to come thus unexpectedly upon such a beautiful region.

  22. Then suddenly and unexpectedly a rushing current bore them to the high mark.

  23. Bob, with his smouldering puppy nature coming unexpectedly to his help, scampered on, crazily barking and yelping as he had never permitted himself to do in the guarded past.

  24. It was an extensive establishment, and looked as if work had been suspended unexpectedly and suddenly.

  25. While I was with the king, who was surrounded by several of his chiefs, she unexpectedly made her appearance among us.

  26. On our way we came unexpectedly on the spot where lay the body of my poor companion who had been crushed to death.

  27. They came so unexpectedly that there was no time to muster reinforcements at the gate; almost before the fishermen could drop their tasks, their enemies were inside the building and pandemonium had broken loose.

  28. The apartment to which the Queen-mother had so unexpectedly summoned her foster-sister was, as we have said, her private closet, in which she passed several hours each day while residing at the Louvre.

  29. There they were again; and there again was the old root bobbing up unexpectedly between them.

  30. His surprise, therefore, when you do meet unexpectedly is correspondingly greater than yours.

  31. Mr. Blake, about a fortnight after, was suddenly and unexpectedly confirmed.

  32. And when Mrs. Marsh burst unexpectedly out in a glowing eulogy on all her goodness, not only to herself and Nathalie, but to all who were poor and friendless in the town, the little heiress broke down and cried.

  33. I can get down,” stated Billy, unexpectedly willing to show them the wonderful feat.

  34. Then she told about Punaro and her belief that he was connected with the cannery fire, and later their coming unexpectedly upon him at the dock.

  35. By the ominous look he sent her she knew instantly he recognized her as the same girl who had come upon him unexpectedly at the galley dock last night.

  36. Every now and then the rich blueness of the lake would flash through the trees in the distance, and to the westward there stretched long level vistas of prairie land, dipping ravines which unexpectedly led one into woodland ways.

  37. The warmth and glow had fallen on the land so unexpectedly after days of rain, and now the whole woodland was athrill with the songs of birds and the chirp and chatter of brooding things.

  38. She was conscious that it had all been wonderfully and unexpectedly perfect; the success, the adulation, had given her a new definite faith in herself.

  39. She entered the carriage, hoping the Countess would not perceive them; but the hope was in vain, she did, and she motioned them both to her to learn if Mrs. McVeigh had also unexpectedly returned.

  40. It was when Alice had reached this unhappy frame of mind that Arkwright himself unexpectedly opened the door for her.

  41. She was a thin, graceful woman, with the blue-black Irish eyes that are set in with a sooty finger, and an unexpectedly rich, deep voice.

  42. In a lonely spot, towards the very centre of the tank, we came unexpectedly upon an extraordinary scene.

  43. To make anything go far by reduction and moderation, as in shortening the allowance of provisions on a voyage unexpectedly tedious.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unexpectedly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.