Late in the afternoon he'd received a startling and wholly unexpected note.

Despite their discomfort, his heart leaped at this unexpected note of comradeship.

They turned to her, as though hearing an unexpected note in it, and she drew a long breath.

There was an unexpected note in the man's voice.

The table reacted with stunned silence to this unexpected note of authority.

It was noisy; the winds blew unexpected notes through those stones.

But Jenny heard an unexpected note of doubt in her voice.

Rather, it can serve as the unexpected bright note in a season of rich, heavy foods.

Now it can do something even more charming: that is, strike an unexpected note.

But when she spoke, her voice held a totally unexpected note of reverence.