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Unexpectedly   /ˌənɪkspˈɛktɪdli/   Listen
Unexpectedly

adverb
1.
In a way that was not expected.  Synonym: out of the blue.
2.
Without advance planning.  Synonyms: accidentally, by chance, circumstantially.






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"Unexpectedly" Quotes from Famous Books



... see either of them, although he heard them plainly, and just then something smashed against him unexpectedly and knocked him over; but it was only the straw-stuffed body of the Scarecrow that fell upon him and while he could not see the Scarecrow he managed to push him off and rose to his feet just as Polychrome whirled against him and made ...
— The Tin Woodman of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... unexpectedly and unwillingly abandoned by its late obese tenant, harbored, besides herself, only one living ...
— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers

... not really afraid of snakes, except when I run upon one unexpectedly. I kill them when I get ...
— The Love Story of Abner Stone • Edwin Carlile Litsey

... ran unexpectedly upon a whole school of dolphins a few miles outside the bay, and before the sun sank I had brought from the sea twenty-six large fish. Some of these were magnificent food-fish, weighing 150 to 200 pounds. We had to send for two ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... you still here?" The fact of Magin's being still there, so unexpectedly, hung in his mind. "By the way, speaking of the Father of Swords, did you ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various


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