1. surprise
It's a surprise.
The girl, who had her head on the boy's shoulder, looked around in surprise.
They have us out-gunned, but we'll have the element of surprise.
No matter how sneaky you are, you can never surprise yourself.
You shouldn't have let the cat out of the bag about being pregnant so soon. I wanted to surprise everyone.
Imogen of the Internet expresses genuine surprise that other people's favorite radio stations are not M3U streams from servers halfway across the world.
Declaring war after a surprise attack is to be expected, but killing over ten thousand non-combatants with a bomb is something unheard of.
The main race yesterday was no surprise. That's the kind of race you can bank on.
If you cut class or something...it wouldn't surprise you if it showed up on your report card, would it?
Her resignation came as a complete surprise. I didn't know that my parents were coming - it was a lovely surprise.
After the earthquake, people stared into the deep hole in the ground in surprise.
All at once I saw a human form in the distance, and, to my surprise, soon recognized that the traveler was a woman.
In order to give him a surprise on his birthday, I prepared a fantastic cake.
Sony ambitiously revealed its newest project early in order to take competitors by surprise.
2. unexpected
That is rather unexpected.
I will be able to see you tomorrow unless something unexpected turns up.
When you have things you don't understand written on you, what will you do, if you get unexpected results?
To believe that an unexpected big fortune will come your way is to build a castle in Spain.
We had to dip into our savings in order to pay the unexpected medical expenses.
Insurance makes us remember that the world we live in isn't completely safe; we might fall ill, face danger or encounter the unexpected.
When there were unexpected expenses in the household of me and my wife, we could not avoid pawning our belongings.
I thought I had him in a corner, but then he pulled an unexpected move and completely turned the tables on me.
You don't need to bring up "A Winter Sonata" to show that South Korean culture is having an unexpected boom in Japan.
Our grandparents paid us an unexpected visit last weekend, and it was great to see them.
Jean had an unexpected call from her Australian cousin in the middle of the night.
We got an unexpected present from him. I guess he felt a little obligated after what we did for him.
Since unexpected incidents occurred one after another, the exhibition was called off.
The unexpected windfall has put my brother and his wife on easy street.
This unexpected malfunctioning of the system was caused by improper wiring.
3. unexpectedly
One morning, she unexpectedly met him on the street.
I ran into him unexpectedly at the airport yesterday.
A young man barged in unexpectedly.
When the door slammed unexpectedly, it startled me.
The family was shook up when the grandmother died unexpectedly.
I unexpectedly met an old friend of mine on the bus yesterday.
The President died unexpectedly.
It seems like you're unexpectedly eloquent.
Mrs. Young didn't mind my dropping in on her unexpectedly.
Our friends arrived unexpectedly this morning.
Sometimes, father will ask me unexpectedly.
Unexpectedly the weather forecast came true yesterday.
I was glad that she visited me unexpectedly.
arrive unexpectedly
The army was unexpectedly attacked.
4. out of the blue
One night he arrived at my flat right out of the blue.
he appeared out of the blue
One day, out of the blue, she announced that she was leaving.
I'm sorry for calling you out of the blue but I need a favour.
I thought we agreed on this and now, out of the blue, you say something like this?
She phoned me without warning - it was completely out of the blue.
Then one day, completely out of the blue, I got a pay rise.
An elderly man sat at the neighbouring table and, out of the blue, started telling us about his wife's illness.
The letter came out of the blue - I didn't expect to hear from him ever again.
I hadn't heard from him for ten years, then, out of the blue, I got a fax from him.
This morning's test came out of the blue for every one of us.
Rachel's resignation came completely out of the blue.
He didn't appear on the music scene out of the blue. He had been dealing with music since 1996.
My friend decided out of the blue to quit his job and go to Europe.
I would like to ask the Commission to what extent food security has featured in the work programme up until now in recent years, because after all, globalisation has not come out of the blue.