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Example sentences for: consternation

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Be sure to see the 1887 £5 coin, which caused consternation among British subjects of the time.
Much to the embarrassment of his brother-in-law and the consternation of others in the State Department, details have recently emerged about Shearer's efforts, in 1996 and 1997, to arrange for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to surrender to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.
Politically, the 1990s have been relatively quite times for the islands, although the divorce of Greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou and his subsequent marriage to a much younger woman caused consternation within conservative Greek society.
On one occasion, as our deliberations were drawing to a close after many months, we came to a particularly niggling point of dispute regarding the cost of some phase of the project--I have forgotten which--and, in frustration and exasperation, I burst out with, You must realize that if you want to earn a penny, you've got to spend a penny!, whereupon, much to my consternation, all those present fell about laughing merrily.
As a pastel practitioner myself, but furtively sharing many of Hawkins' prejudices and hunches about computational modelling in neuroscience, I am caught between commendation and consternation.