unexpectedly
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of unexpectedly
Example Sentences
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But ten minutes later, when Roosevelt’s canoes came around a sharp turn, they were unexpectedly swept into another series of rapids.
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But the number that unexpectedly and astonishingly came out instead was, “One hundred.”
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In the early 1950s, the Cold War took an unexpectedly lethal turn.
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The jacket, unexpectedly, was wonderful—old Brooks Brothers, unlined silk, ivory with stripes of peacock green—a little loose, but it fit all right.
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When the canoes came around a sharp bend, jagged rocks unexpectedly grabbed a hold of one while a tangle of vines and fallen trees ensnared it.
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