Example sentences for: wonderment

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

  • Perhaps an ingenuous minority used it innocently in its hippie heyday; but most often one heard it uttered with a bit of wonderment, as if the speaker couldn't believe that he or she was really using the word.

  • How different, I wonder now, was my childish curiosity and wonderment at the mysterious process happening to my no-longer-swimming fish below the earth from that of grown-up exhumers?

  • Kaye clinches the case by showing Derek in the shower having a vision of himself and his brother as innocent children on the beach, staring in wonderment at seagulls.

  • Macbeth harps on this mystery after the witches vanish, muttering to Banquo in a tone of envious wonderment, “Your children shall be kings.”

  • His eponymous hero (Edward Furlong) is a boyish, happy-go-lucky Baltimore photographer whose pictures of urban grotesques--from fornicating rodents to lesbian strippers to homeless exhibitionists--renders them objects of beauty and wonderment.


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