Moreover, the defeat of the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra and Mantinea filled them with consternation rather by the unexpectedness of the disaster than because of the number of those who perished.
The suddenness and unexpectedness of the attack so dismayed the people of Meliteia, that he would easily have taken the town; but he was baffled by the fact of the ladders proving to be far too short.
Probably Bonnet had counted on the unexpectedness of his maneuver to accomplish this result.
It must have been the darkness and the sudden unexpectedness of it all that frightened him, for as soon as they came down the rocks into the flaring firelight he was able to control himself once more.
Was there something in the unexpectedness of finding him immersed in the problem of Tira that had overthrown her preconceived plan?
But when she heard herself called the child of a cheat and a swindler, the very monstrous unexpectedness of this caused in her a revulsion towards letting herself go.
The unexpectednessof this misfire positively overcame his faculties.
There was neither dislike nor distrust in her look, only a quick, unaccountable nervousness which he attributed to the unexpectedness of their meeting, with its tragic and ugly introduction.
The unexpectedness alone of my first dip had caused my confusion.
But it brought with curious unexpectedness a scene not without pathos and significance.
The great sport of the game consists in the unexpectedness with which the ball may appear at any given point.
The players try to evade the vigilance of the guards by the quickness and unexpectedness of their movements.
The sport comes from the unexpectedness with which the ball may be thrown across the ring, or reverse the direction in which it is circling the ring, or in any other way taking the players unaware.
A large part of the interest of this game lies in the rapidity of the play and the unexpectedness with which the ball is thrown in any given direction.
Clasping his sword hilt more firmly in his hand he wheeled about with unexpectedness that evidently took his follower by surprise, for he dashed across the street and sped fleetly towards the river.
And the victims, succumbing to sudden and unheard of catastrophes, found some alleviation in the unexpectedness of their experience.
He turned to the two men who stood behind, startled by the unexpectedness of the quarrel.
The unexpectedness of their attack had nearly proved fatal to Alec's party, and since then they had all had to fight for bare life.
Sanders, bewildered by theunexpectedness of the vision.
For a little, he seemed dazed by the unexpectedness of this evil.
A little dazed by the blow, and by the unexpectedness of the onslaught--nothing more.
He was at all times easily nettled and prone to take offence, and in the present case the unexpectedness of the repulse made it additionally hurting.
The intensity of wounded feeling from which he was suffering, the utter unexpectedness of the blow, had given him for the time a sort of dignity, a power of retort new to him.
The total unexpectednessof the thing deprived her of all powers of resistance.
The sheer unexpectedness of her action had gained the day!
Her teeth sank deep in the soft flesh of his shoulder, and at the unexpectedness and pain of her attack, he let out a yelp.
The unexpectedness of her movement and the swiftness of her flight put Baree well behind her in the race over the plain.
Mrs. Creecy, startled out of all knowledge of four-footed beasts by the unexpectedness of the question.
The utterly unexpected arrival of Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, who was not expected for another month, was not only strange from its unexpectedness but from its fateful coincidence with the present moment.
The unexpectednessof the action produced a painful shock.
But to those who do not devote particular attention to the stars, the very unexpectedness of its appearance is one of its greatest charms.
Under the unexpectedness of the representation it sat up straight, and there was a keenness of desire to see what would happen next which plainly curtailed the applause, as it does with the children at a pantomime.
She did not altogether scorn her own intelligence at the result, because it had always admitted the existence of dominating facts that belonged to life and not to reason; it was only the absurd unexpectedness of coming across one herself.
His entire life has been of positive interest from the variety of things accomplished and the unexpectedness with which he has accomplished them.
I remember how simply and easily this was said, in his clear, deep voice, and how impressive and important it seemed, and with what unexpectedness it came.
The boys' answer, if indeed they made any, was swallowed up by the tumultuous booming of the church bell, which began at that moment with the unexpectedness of a thunderclap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unexpectedness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: improbability; suddenness; unexpectedness; unpreparedness
