Astonishment in example sentence

He ran into the room with the same feelings as, and even stronger ones than, those with which he had gone to the Shcherbatskys' house to propose and to his astonishment was met with such a dismal look as he had never seen on her face before.

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And to my astonishment, they backed me 100 percent.

Bit by bit, her condition stabilized, and then to our astonishment, she actually improved.

And I was confused, because the fire hadn't been difficult physically, so why was he looking at me with something like astonishment?

Take a direct north-south bearing, you find to your astonishment that it bisects the intiwatana stone, goes to the skyline, hits the heart of Salcantay, the second of the most important mountains of the Incan empire.

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