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402 examples of Astonishment in a sentence

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.
And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities, you find to your astonishment that whereas the sea ice used to come in in September and stay till July, in a place like Kanak in northern Greenland, it literally comes in now in November and stays until March.
And to my astonishment, she agreed to let me photograph her granddaughter.
It doesn't work out too well, and so we actually go back to the well and start all over again, as the people in New York and L.A. look on in absolute, morbid astonishment.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral reefs and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
To my astonishment: Part II is far better and you get the whole story of part one summarized!
Joan's outrage at her own soldiers swearing and astonishment at the enemy for their lack of respect and obedience to her are jarringly spontaneous and believable notes (you suddenly realize such moments must naturally have occurred)in an otherwise uninvolving historical "representation".
It's all there: not just great, great bands like Black Flag, Fear, X, the Germs, whose names may not mean much to you today, but whose influence on today's alternative rock music can not be over-estimated, but also the promoters, the media and first of all the audiences - the punks - all portrayed in a manner that makes you laugh, shudder and gasp with astonishment about the energy, the anger and the fury these youths put into their music.
Compare to the original, in which Chuck Heston's nakedness metaphorically captured his utter helplessness and astonishment at his turn of events.
Loretta is beautiful, and I was just in astonishment at the very idea of their being unwed moms there, it seemed ahead of its' time.
"House of Games" is a flawlessly constructed film, and one of the few films I have seen that had me gaping at the screen in astonishment at how cleverly and unexpectedly it ends.
I honestly can't explain the effect this movie had on me, me and my friends sat silent as it ended out of astonishment.
"Black Robe" is a film I have seen at least a dozen times and it continues to cause utter astonishment.
I was torn between laughing at how bad it was and complete astonishment that it was actually released in theaters.
Traveling in a Middle European kingdom, an Englishman on a fishing vacation discovers to his astonishment that he is an identical look-alike for the country's king.
I started watching this with some scepticism, fully expecting it to be another soapy royal saga, but to my astonishment found it sensitively written and surprisingly perceptive.
Never have I been in a cinema whilst watching a horror movie where not one person has a comment, this movie was pure astonishment followed by the occasional boo scare and gargled scream.
A few weeks ago, Galeano, to the astonishment of many, distanced himself from his own book.
You are watching with legitimate concern (and a mixture of astonishment and anger) as Europe’s crippling debt crisis spreads and America’s dysfunctional politics leave it unable to revive its moribund economy.
Some observers express astonishment that India has flourished as a democracy; in fact, it could hardly have survived as anything else.
Preparing for President TrumpLONDON – As America’s friends and allies look on in astonishment at the all-but-certain prospect of a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November’s US presidential election, they need to do more than just wring their hands.
When I ask myself: ‘To what extent do I feel European, and what links me with Europe?", my first thought is a mild astonishment at the fact that it is only now that I ponder this question.
Not a few policymakers in the US and in Europe have reacted with astonishment, or even annoyance, to these emerging democratic powers’ attempts to pursue their own agendas on the world stage.
Instead, to the FARC's astonishment, the government's plan to retake control of the region was serious.
The White House is in turmoil;Congress is paralyzed; and the world is looking on in astonishment and dread.
To everyone's astonishment, a Senegalese judge indicted Habré on charges of crimes against humanity and torture, and placed him under house arrest.
Given the vast amount of direct and circumstantial evidence that the rigging was on behalf of Kibaki, Frazer’s assignment of equal blame to each side was met with astonishment and dismay by the opposition.
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