How to Use unsurprising in a Sentence

unsurprising

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• Yes, that means that the U.S. didn’t even crack the top 30—which is unsurprising to. . .
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2019
• The band has continued the gesture on the road, and in L.A. got an unsurprising cheer from the crowd.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Sep. 2022
• Many of the names were unsurprising, the subjects of years of rumor.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• With the Panthers off to an unsurprising bad start, that chip looks like a top-70 pick.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
• The takeover was a stunning, if unsurprising, turn of events.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• And so in an unsurprising end to her sad life, Mary Elaine Botts died Nov. 18 of a drug overdose.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• Also unsurprising was the fact that Meghan's fashion choice for the video was a hit as well.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 9 May 2021
• While Williamson is an unsurprising pick, the top vote-getter has gone to win the Rookie of the Year award just once in the last 10 years of the survey.
  — Alaa Abdeldaiem, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• And, in a perhaps unsurprising turn, both cities happen to be two of the wealthiest in the Lone Star State.
  — Michael Murney, Chron, 20 Jan. 2023
• The co-opting of NFTs by big tech platforms is, in some way, unsurprising.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 21 Jan. 2022
• The whole thing is sort of like strangely unsurprising.
  — The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2020
• That was unsurprising after the beef between the two last episode.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
• The unsurprising move came three weeks after the team parted with Hunter Pence.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• The unsurprising move to opt out by Griffen cleared more than $13 million in salary cap space for the Vikings this year.
  — Schuyler Dixon, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
• These nods to the past are unsurprising for a series steeped in nostalgia.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• The Pats won and beat the 7.5-point spread at home last year, an unsurprising result given how well this team has fared in its own digs against the Dolphins.
  — Alex Kay, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• And the research holds some important, if unsurprising, clues about how to do it.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2022
• The Jets possess the second overall pick in the 2021 draft and their decision to trade Darnold was unsurprising.
  — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2021
• The study’s findings are unsurprising to those who research dolphins, per the Times.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
• Last night in Los Angeles, the verdict was in and the result was unsurprising.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2018
• It’s perhaps unsurprising that Levchin would believe in some form of tech to be the solution.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
• Their parents say the post-playing careers of Chris and Kyle are unsurprising.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2023
• Like a fairy tale, the final reveal feels somehow unsurprising, but still a shock.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
• That Freud beat Remarque and Sherriff to the punch is unsurprising.
  — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• According to the zoo owner, her escape was unsurprising to the zoo's staff.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024
• This is unsurprising, as so much of consumers' lives and day-to-day functions have shifted to the digital world.
  — John Kim, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• The horse race implications of the feud have led much of the coverage, for unsurprising reasons.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
• The highlights from the preview revolved more around some of the game’s details rather than its unsurprising WW2-inspired plot premise.
  — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
• But most of the flashbacks, while unsurprising, tend to be effective and affecting.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
• The band’s latest effort re-enters highest on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart, which is unsurprising given its genre appeal.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025