Example sentences for: wonders

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

  • Still, it is China’s grandest achievement, on par with Egypt’s pyramids and a handful of other ancient wonders of the world.

  • The NYT points out that adjacent unquoted passages from Brandeis make a very clear point--that the government may not commit crimes to enforce the law, but nobody wonders why McVeigh opted for the murky portion instead.

  • One wonders if the papers would have been this low-key if it were--Qaddafi, say--standing almost alone against the world in clinging to a maiming technology.

  • There is a long amiable letter to the young Lafayette in 1779, in which Washington, in a giddy mood, drifts into a reverie about competing for Lafayette's young wife with Lafayette himself--a funny bit of teasing, followed abruptly by a rueful reassurance, worthy of Stendhal himself, that "amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a Woman from real inclination has preferred an old man."

  • The cover story marvels at the placebo effect and wonders whether we should allow doctors to prescribe placebos.


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