Example Sentences

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Touvier said it may have been surprising that the natural food color additives yielded similar risks as synthetic ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

It would not have been surprising if it had followed “Streets of Minneapolis” when he recently performed it at First Avenue in Minneapolis.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2026

If you asked Los Alamitos basketball coach Nate Berger to be honest about early expectations for a team that returned zero starters, he would have said a 1-9 start wouldn’t have been surprising.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

And there have been surprising winners elsewhere in Europe too.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

Guenever, and this might have been surprising to a person who had known her in her days of tempest looked sweet and pretty.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White