7 sentences with 'unexpected'
Example sentences and phrases with the word unexpected and other words derived from it.
• « The unexpected pressure caused him to contract the finger resting on the trigger. The gun went off. »
• « Decades after the war, the French received an unexpected boost to their fortunes thanks to the intervention of one of France's own future patrons: Joan of Arc. »
• « An unexpected "benefit" for Italy was actually the Babylonian captivity and the Great Western Schism: because the authority of the popes was so limited, Italian cities found it easy to operate with little papal interference, and powerful Italian families often intervened directly in the election of popes when it suited them. »
• « Soon, however, Luther's 95 Protestant Theses were translated into German and reprinted, leading to unexpected and, at least initially, unwanted celebrity. »
• « An unexpected benefit for constitutional monarchy was that British elites, through parliament, no longer opposed royal rule but became the government. »