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How to use unsurprisingly in a sentence

20 example sentences · adverb

Unsurprisingly means not surprisingly, as could be expected. Example: “Unsurprisingly, the Oaxacan cheese steak sandwich contains jalapeno peppers.”

Examples of unsurprisingly by meaning

adverbNot surprisingly, as could be expected.

  • So, perhaps unsurprisingly, black salt is often used in vegan cooking to impart an egg-like flavour and aroma to your dishes.2019 January 7, Sasha Gill, Jackfruit and Blue Ginger: Asian favourites, made vegan, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 18
  • Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43

More sentences with unsurprisingly

  • Unsurprisingly, the Oaxacan cheese steak sandwich contains jalapeno peppers.From the entry Oaxacan
  • The internet, unsurprisingly, already has a name for the upcoming double blockbuster weekend: Dunesday.2025 May 23, The Hindu Bureau, “‘Avengers: Doomsday’ delayed to December 2026, set to clash With ‘Dune: Messiah’ in ‘Dunesday’ cinematic…. From the entry Dunesday
  • Unsurprisingly, more people are choosing not to use their car’s native infotainment controls.2023 July 20, Andrew J. Hawkins, “People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars”, in The Verge, archived from the…. From the entry infotainment
  • Mitchell unsurprisingly balled out in his return, dropping 46 points, grabbing six rebounds and adding five assists.2023 January 12, Isabel Baldwin, “Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell shares heartwarming reunion with young, longtime Jazz fan, who waited…. From the entry ball out
  • Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109. From the entry man
  • The day the act was passed the nation celebrated, perhaps unsurprisingly, by getting completely stoated.2011, Pete Brown, Man Walks into a Pub, page 123. From the entry stoated
  • Descriptions of seidr within modern paganism are unsurprisingly equally as difficult to pin down and define.2008, Katie Gerrard, “The Seer: A Journey Through the High Seat”, in Sorita D'Este, editors, Priestesses Pythonesses Sibyls: The Sacred…. From the entry seidr
  • The direwolves have been howling non-stop, depriving everyone of sleep but, unsurprisingly, the Starklings.2004 November 28, Richard Boye, “CHOW: aCoK - Bran I, or "I'm Brandon Stark, and I'll Howl if I Want To!"”, in alt.fan-grrm (Usenet). From the entry Starkling
  • Geeking, unsurprisingly, was among the first carnival acts to be outlawed as the 20th century unfurled.1995, Jack Hunter, Inside Teradome, page 23. From the entry geek
  • Televisions, unsurprisingly, won out with 10.3 minutes.2017 May 26, Meaghan Beatley, “20-Minute Episodes of 'Game of Thrones' Are Just About Ads”, in Vice, archived from the original on 21 Jan…. From the entry watchtime
  • Religion is one of the most talked about subjects on earth and, unsurprisingly, one of the most podcasted in the podosphere.2005, Steve Shipside, Podcasting: The Ultimate Starter Kit, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry podosphere
  • And, perhaps unsurprisingly, pro-war Chinese trolls denounced the authors – who are based in Nanjing, Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai – as "shameful" and "traitorous".2022 February 28, Vincent Ni, “‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry troll
  • Yet unsurprisingly, the levels of knowledge about the Holocaust held by non-history specialists was significantly lower than those who were history specialists.2014, M. Gray, Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education, →ISBN. From the entry Personal Social Health Education
  • In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way.2002, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth, McFarland, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry camp
  • My dad was a highly active member of Zoryaniy Shlyah—Kyiv’s possibly first (and possibly only, at the time) sci-fi fan club—the name means "Star Trek" in Ukrainian, unsurprisingly.2023 July 30, Max Levchin, “Shamir Secret Sharing”, in Too Long to Tweet (blog), archived from the original on 27 Mar 2024. From the entry coryphaeus
  • It quickly became clear that I was pretty much writing the same thing twice: factors that make cupcakes flat in opposite make muffins domed, unsurprisingly enough.2021, Katarina Cermelj, Baked to Perfection: Delicious gluten-free recipes with a pinch of science, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry muffin
  • I mentioned the idea of losing family to Fox News brain on Twitter the other day, and unsurprisingly, a lot of people had their own similar stories.2019 April 12, Luke O'Neil, “"Fox News brain": meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news”, in The Guardian. From the entry Fox News brain
  • Meanwhile, Alison the stroppy school-dinner lady has difficulty controlling her daughter, and thinks drugs might help calm down her kid — Doc Martin has other ideas (unsurprisingly).2007 September 24, Imogen Ridgway, “Pick of the Night”, in Evening Standard, page 40. From the entry school-dinner lady

Meaning of unsurprisingly

  1. adverb Not surprisingly, as could be expected.

Full definition of unsurprisingly

Questions about unsurprisingly in a sentence

How do you use unsurprisingly in a sentence?
Unsurprisingly is used as an adverb. For example: “Unsurprisingly, the Oaxacan cheese steak sandwich contains jalapeno peppers.”
What is a short sentence with unsurprisingly?
“Televisions, unsurprisingly, won out with 10.3 minutes.”
What does unsurprisingly mean?
Unsurprisingly means not surprisingly, as could be expected.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsurprisingly (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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