Definition: 1. In a surprising manner. 2. In an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise.
Use 'surprisingly' in a sentence:
1. Surprisingly, the danger is from the people who love them most.
2. Once he knew his father's name, finding his whereabouts proved surprisingly easy.
3. I found him surprisingly well informed on current world politics.
4. Not surprisingly, they supported their co-religionists.
5. The link between what the men had done as boys and how they turned out as adults was surprisingly sharp.
6. The old professor was surprisingly humble at the meeting.
7. Surprisingly, the ability to hypnotize yourself can be learnt in a single session.
8. The company and its supporters, not surprisingly, see the case very differently.
9. It can also be surprisingly helpful in the course of our own lives.
10. More surprisingly, it's young people who are buying the most physical books.
11. Surprisingly, these people live largely by their own laws and their own social customs.
12. Not surprisingly, he failed to convert her.
13. Surprisingly, a lot more than I did as a hobby recently.
14. It was a surprisingly dry day after the rain of the previous week.
15. Surprisingly, she didn't feel nervous, or regretful about her actions.
16. The ocean, surprisingly enough, has many things in common with space.
17. Not surprisingly on such a hot day, the beach was crowded.
18. Surprisingly, her tics disappeared when she sang.
19. Many famous people are surprisingly humble.
20. Nettles are surprisingly good — much like spinach but with a sweetish taste.
21. Perhaps not surprisingly, the higher people go in a company, the happier they are.
22. Not surprisingly, much of Nokia's most valuable design and programming talent left as well.
23. Boren surprisingly led off the most intensive line of questioning today.
24. Surprisingly enough, the butterfly is unable to fly.
25. He took the criticism surprisingly well.
26. The suitcase is surprisingly light.
27. The changes were made with surprisingly little difficulty.
28. Italy versus Japan is turning out to be a surprisingly well matched competition.
29. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction.
30. The audience was surprisingly well behaved.
31. It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.
32. This disease is surprisingly difficult to catch as most people have a natural resistance to it.
33. At the same time, expenses in college pile up surprisingly quickly.
34. The Swiss franc has remained surprisingly strong.
35. Surprisingly, he agreed straight away.
36. It's a small car, yet it's surprisingly spacious.
37. Our field of vision is surprisingly wide.
38. She looked surprisingly well.
39. The weather was surprisingly warm and sunny.
40. The party did surprisingly well in the South.
41. Her voice was surprisingly calm.
42. Most surprisingly, quite a few said they don't intend to vote at all.
43. Thankfully, a solution presented itself to him surprisingly soon.
44. They appeared surprisingly pessimistic about their chances of winning.
45. Surprisingly, mathematics was voted their favourite subject.
46. Surprisingly, maths was voted their favourite subject.
