Example sentences for: amazement

How can you use “amazement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To the Berbers’ amazement the tables were turned, and it wasn’t long before the Ibicencos were boarding the enemy’s brigantines on the open seas and “liberating” the pirates’ booty —   even that of the greatly feared “Pope” (see box).

  • Not far down the street, an officer stopped me and, to my amazement, got ready to draw his pistol.

  • I read last week's "Committee of Correspondence: Advice for Dole," with some interest and not a little amazement.

  • Complete this expression of amazement from Dr. Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health, "I don't often pick up a scientific paper and find myself getting chills, as I did when I saw _______________."

  • Most express amazement at Huxley's uncanny foresight.


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