Synonym: amazingly, astonishingly. Similar words: surprising, increasingly, seemingly, enterprise, single, unrelentingly, single out, promising. Meaning: [sər'praɪzɪŋlɪ /sə'p-] adv. 1. in a surprising manner 2. in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise.
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91) Not surprisingly a strong field has assembled for this last tournament of the year in Britain.
92) Not surprisingly, therefore, they appear to be reaching a higher level of competence.
93) Not surprisingly, the building of branch lines and the provision of freight sidings never failed to create controversy.
94) Not surprisingly, Whitehall has been hedging its bets with officials preparing briefs to cover a variety of eventualities.
95) Not surprisingly, Dale had to entoil in a remedial mathematics course when he arrived on campus.
96) Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
97) Amongst these are contact lens wetting solutions, comfort drops and artificial tears, which, perhaps surprisingly, have similar compositions.
98) Not surprisingly, it was another early closure, with only a few people living nearby.
99) The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors.
100) It can be surprisingly difficult to avoid, too, because it is added to so many foods and drinks.
101) Not surprisingly therefore, he drew comparisons between the problems faced by the University and those confronting his own establishment.
102) The tapes and scores which they produce come across with real sincerity, and display surprisingly high levels of competence.
103) Airy, instantly accessible but surprisingly subtle music covering ground between modem mainstream and bebop and featuring Barnes alongside trumpeter Adams.
104) Surprisingly little is recorded about the techniques of ship construction at that time, and the wreck may provide valuable clues.
105) But all in all, it was a surprisingly effective night of music.
106) Not surprisingly, Gelernter, 42, still is trembling with rage four years after the bomb went off.
107) From this pontificate come, not surprisingly, important collections of church, or canon, law.
108) And yet surprisingly little is known about the factors which make for public acceptance.
109) Surprisingly, they were the first comets found from Britain this century.
110) Careful reading of the various clauses in a policy often reveals that surprisingly little is actually insured against.
111) But out of this adversity has sprung a surprisingly fine vintage.
112) Not surprisingly, what an existentialist account of existence does not provide is a clarification of the conditions of objectivity.
113) Answer: Surprisingly, a. Why: This one sneaks into punctuation rule books and is uncommon enough to cause confusion.
114) The caterpillars of the monarch butterfly, surprisingly, are able to feed on milkweed without taking any of these precautions.
115) She was a strange little girl, advanced for her age and surprisingly sensible for one afflicted with the symptoms of epilepsy.
116) For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral, Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.
117) Their domestic agendas and failings, even their backgrounds, are surprisingly similar.
117) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
118) Five ladies played for the seven-strong county team, and in inter-club matches Henley ladies were, not surprisingly, strong competitors.
119) Surprisingly, I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply: I don't particularly like children.
120) In return, they have, not surprisingly, behaved in ways which confirmed these perceptions.
More similar words: surprising, increasingly, seemingly, enterprise, single, unrelentingly, single out, promising, advertising, crisis, prisoner, comprise, financial crisis, singer, missing, housing, supposing, something like, spring up, increasing, processing, surrounding, purple, on purpose, interpret, angle, jungle, interpretation, visitor, visible.