Example sentences for: astonishingly

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

  • His books are still, astonishingly, best sellers (even his wretched new ones).

  • Chat rooms have become astonishingly intolerant places, where anyone who dares dissent from the general rah-rah tenor is branded a traitor and pretty much hounded out of the site.

  • 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).

  • She was astonishingly intense as the backwoods sister of a suicidal boy in the otherwise mediocre thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), and her Carole Lombardish timing was a spark plug for the tired Six Days, Seven Nights . She is the best thing to happen to movies since Debra Winger; she might even be as good as Winger--which is as good as movie actresses get.

  • 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).


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