Example sentences for: astonishingly

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

  • At 73, Heston does remain an awesome presence--tall, grandfatherly, astonishingly handsome, his voice as magnificent as ever.

  • Cells and organisms have achieved astonishingly ramified and subtle detectors that measure sources of energy, plus coupling devices, that extract work and use it to build rough copies of themselves.

  • An actress named Hilary Swank gives one of the most rapturous performances I've ever seen as the cross-dressing Brandon Teena (a k a Teena Brandon) in Kimberly Peirce's stark and astonishingly beautiful debut feature, Boys Don't Cry . The movie opens with Teena being shorn of her hated female tresses and becoming "Brandon," who swaggers around in tight jeans and leather jackets.

  • "[A]n experience as powerful as any in modern art" (Mark Stevens, New York ). The New York Times ' Michael Kimmelman calls the paintings "astonishingly beautiful."

  • (A recent highlight was the National Enquirer 's astonishingly detailed painting of the poor child's lifeless body, bloodied garrote and all.)


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