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Example sentences for "surprise when"

  • Imagine my surprise when just as I reached the top of the hill, where I saw the deer disappear from my sight, I almost ran against the buck.

  • As it was so dark that I could not see from the blind, you can imagine my surprise when I got to the lick to see a large buck deer lying broadside as dead as could be.

  • You may imagine my surprise when I came in sight of the trap to see another bear fast in the trap.

  • He showed visible signs of surprise when he found out, by reading the name on the ship's side, that it was the Fram he had before him.

  • They showed no sign of surprise when we came into camp; they might have been there all the time.

  • You can therefore imagine my surprise when my husband, in the very act of making a woman of me, gave me a great deal of pain without giving me the slightest idea of pleasure!

  • The reader can imagine all I suffered in making this declaration, and my surprise when I saw the young girl calm and perfectly composed!

  • I guessed at once what was the matter, and felt no surprise when I saw the woman Marchetti and her daughter.

  • You may imagine my surprise when I read that I had been leading a dance out at Mohair, or some such barbarous place in the northwest.

  • He gave a grunt of surprise when I halted before him.

  • I was not, therefore, wholly taken by surprise when he said to me one night: "I am resolved to try my fortune in America, lad.

  • What was my surprise when I recognized in her Therese Imer, wife of the dancer Pompeati, whose name the reader may remember.

  • What was my surprise when I heard her read these words: "In a matter of this kind neither fear nor hesitate.

  • You may imagine my surprise when I convinced myself, with no little trouble of the truth of the answer.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surprise when" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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