Example sentences for: astonishing

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

  • With astonishing sums of money sloshing around the economy and Japanese products considered world-beaters everywhere, it seemed to the Japanese that the nation had finally achieved its rightful place in the world.

  • Mintz quotes some astonishing speeches by Abolitionists who easily equated cane sugar with murder, one of them even providing the precise calculus: "[I]n every pound of sugar used (the product of the slaves imported from Africa), we may be considered as consuming two ounces of blood."

  • There is also some astonishing Rococo porcelain from Meissen, Vienna, Berlin, and Sèvres.

  • "In an astonishing attack, senior officials accused him of presenting at face value claims by the Serbs about damage done by Nato attacks, being grossly simplistic in suggesting that the Nato assault has united the Serb population and Milosevic's forces, and of swallowing Serb propaganda about the impact of Nato's air raids," the Times said.

  • While Le Figaro in a front-page editorial said that the tide is now turning in NATO's favor and marveled at the "astonishing unity" of the alliance so far, Milan's Corriere della Sera berated Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema for condoning open revolt against the war within his coalition government.


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