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Example sentences for: astonished

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

Some of them strike us immediately as exotic but others (shampoo, for instance) are in such common use that people are often astonished to learn that they have a foreign origin.
such hopeless, astonished pleading, such overwhelmed, untempered pity for the self dying;
Director Michael Mann must be astonished at the powerful effect the early screenings of his anti-tobacco-company movie The Insider have had.
He was astonished to learn about public access laws, but both the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Commission on Human Rights have been filling him in.
(Translation: Escaped, astonished, aswooned adulterer, pandering.)