Example sentences for: astonishingly

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

  • Caroline Aaron's vulgar Lucille Kaufman (modeled on Susan Thomases) is an astonishingly lived-in portrait, and fine, too, in lesser roles are Paul Guilfoyle, Tony Shalhoub, and the comedian Robert Klein.

  • While deregulation undoubtedly has been a good thing overall, and while super-saver fares are often astonishingly low, the last few years have seen a dramatic rise in the price of tickets purchased without any advance notice (what they call business fares, since only business travelers can afford them).

  • But she's astonishingly vivid in her new film, In Dreams . It's a poetic but ultimately disappointing stab at expressionistic horror, courtesy of Neil Jordan ( The Crying Game , 1992).

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

  • "[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.)


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