How to Use unsurprising in a Sentence

unsurprising

adjective
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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
  • In an unsurprising turn of events, Oliver bought the jock strap.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 7 May 2018
  • 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
  • With any other shoe, the style mind-meld might have been unsurprising.
    — Samuel Hine, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • In an unsurprising move, the justices declined to jump into the fray.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In an unsurprising move, Mohamed Salah was also picked in the squad.
    — Hamza Hendawi, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • 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
  • That’s unsurprising, because there doesn’t appear to ever have been any such study.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • That’s unsurprising, given the long lead times for building nuclear submarines.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2024

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