Example sentences for: astonishment

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

  • One rubs one's eyes in "slight" astonishment.

  • Then, to the astonishment of the local populace, the Duke of Windsor, having given up his throne for an American divorcée, was named governor of the little colony in 1940.

  • I remember my astonishment at hearing “It's a bit much” for the first time.

  • My son, who had rattled both of his deeply secular parents a few years earlier by requesting a bar mitzvah (for which, to our astonishment, he studied intently for two years, delivering himself of a whomping cantor-led performance and bar mitzvah speech in which he discussed in serious 13-year-old voice his intense feeling about carrying on a tradition his father's family had let lapse), told me kindly one day that he had stopped eating pork so maybe I could cut back on the bacon.

  • "Well, I think what we have so far learned, what the Washington Post seems to have learned, to their great astonishment, is that candidates for re-election would actually campaign on their own behalf.


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