Words similar to astonishment

Example sentences for: astonishment

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

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.
There was silence now, as the Englishmen looked in astonishment at the frowzy creatures they had so lustily waltzed inside.
A lot of the power of the paintings to compel astonishment or pathos has leaked away: Max Weber's fantasy painting of a New York department store (1915), once an icon of modernity, now seems quaint.
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.
I remember my astonishment at hearing “It's a bit much” for the first time.