Out of the blue

Usage examples of unexpected.

By a quick and unexpected march, Montrose hastened to Innerlochy, and presented himself in order of battle before the surprised but not affrightened Covenanters.

But when they had tried to apply the antibody in the afflicted patients, the response had been totally unexpected.

The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affecting at all, but there was such a strong barometer taste to the soup that the head cook, who was a most conscientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare.

It was only ten minutes later when she rounded the headland behind which the barque had disappeared, and hauled to the westward, but in that short time the barque had set her royals and put an unexpected stretch of tumbling water between herself and her pursuer.

Then he threw a glance at the batwing doors to see who entered at this unexpected hour.

Interrogation, now it had come, was most satisfactory, and Bernard was glad to believe that there was an element of the unexpected in his answer.

Undoubtedly Potzfeldt had heard his unexpected guests coming, and was bestirring himself to welcome them, though inwardly raving over having his rest so frequently disturbed.

Pain, unexpected, blossomed in me like an old acquaintance come to visit, the scent of crushed ferns filling my nose.

That warning had blunted, however slightly, the surge of panic which even the most experienced armsmen must feel under totally unexpected attack.

But a most unexpected circumstance prevented our attending the ball, and brought forth a comedy with a truly tragic turn.

The unexpected visitor strode past Flax, pausing in the main room to pivot on a burnished boot heel.

Does that mean you ran into a homonym professionally, in your preparation of contracts, that brought about unexpected complications?

For an instant she became the hypnogogic ape, the shape-changer come to mock at him, so unexpected was the sight of her in her white dress.

Nevertheless, a wayward glimpse brought unexpected grief, not for the Uncle I knew but the one that I had been cheated of by a boyhood prank gone awry, and all the mistruths and misdeeds it had begat.

It is, however, far more necessary to bear in mind that there are many unknown laws of correlation of growth, which, when one part of the organisation is modified through variation, and the modifications are accumulated by natural selection for the good of the being, will cause other modifications, often of the most unexpected nature.