Example sentences for: astonishingly

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

  • "[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."

  • 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.

  • "[W]e have a book worthy of its subject--graceful, astonishingly well researched, yet imbued with a sense of flow that is rarely achieved at this level of scholarship," says Daphne Merkin in the New York Times Book Review . (See Sarah Kerr's review in Slate.)

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

  • Only recently was it realized that anaerobic microbial processes, namely, the oxidation of hydrocarbons with sulfate, could produce astonishingly high fluxes of sulfide in cold seep settings [13,14].


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