Example sentences for: astonishing

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

  • When VERBATIM was first published, though, I cannot recall having looked forward much beyond the first issue; now, thinking back, I find it astonishing that seventy-four numbers have preceded this one.

  • Given that characterization alone, it would be astonishing that there is any dispute about EBM.

  • Dawidowicz also marshals an astonishing sequence of quotations from Hitler's speeches in the period 1939-43, in which he maps in coded terms the progress of the Holocaust: Each time he makes reference to "the laughter of the Jews," and each time he observes that more and more Jews have stopped laughing.

  • "It is quite an astonishing book, a masterpiece," says the New York Times Book Review 's Michael Hofmann.

  • In World War II, the need for a general-purpose vehicle was satisfied with the development of a means of transportation referred to by the government with astonishing directness and candor as a general-purpose vehicle . The army, quick to abbreviate everything, began to refer to the vehicle as a g.p.


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