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Astonishment in sentence

402 examples of Astonishment in a sentence

In the Financial Times interview, Putin expresses astonishment that the West would “want a region such as Libya to have the same democratic standards as Europe and the US.”
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.
She looked at her in astonishment and replied, 'Later.'
This discovery, which suddenly explained to her those hitherto incomprehensible families where there were only one or two children, awoke in her so many thoughts, reflections and contradictory feelings that she could say nothing, and only stared at Anna with wide-open eyes full of astonishment.
The decorated gentleman and the lady in the fur cloak, arrived that morning by train from Paris, opened their eyes vaguely, exhibiting on their faces their astonishment at all these new things which took them out of their element.
He looked at her in astonishment.
This caused him no astonishment, for miners are rough fellows who have thicker heads than engine-men; but he was surprised at the courage of this little chap, and at the cheerful way he had bitten into the coal to avoid dying of hunger.
But the Grégoires themselves returned to the subject of the strike, expressing their astonishment that no laws existed to prevent workmen from leaving their work.
The woman came out of her shop in astonishment, without understanding or being able to distinguish this band now lost in the darkness.
Jeanlin looked at him in astonishment.
But while he was hoarsely urging them on to Montsou, he heard another voice within him, the voice of reason, asking, in astonishment, the meaning of all this.
Recovering from its astonishment, the crowd was shouting louder than ever:"Death to the bourgeois!
His face, ordinarily so emotionless, was stamped with indescribable astonishment.
I stared at Captain Nemo in definite astonishment, and I answered him:"Sir, I understand perfectly how your nets can furnish excellent fish for your table; I understand less how you can chase aquatic game in your underwater forests; but how a piece of red meat, no matter how small, can figure in your menu, that I don't understand at all.""Nor I, sir," Captain Nemo answered me.
I replied in some astonishment.
"Indulge your astonishment, my friend, and have a look, because there's plenty of work here for a classifier of your talents."
Ned Land soon dozed off, and to my astonishment, Conseil also fell into a heavy slumber.
To my deep astonishment, Captain Nemo gave him a signal.
Much to my astonishment, this door was ajar.
Two of his men climbed onto the whale's flank, and to my astonishment, I saw them draw from its udders all the milk they held, in other words, enough to fill two or three casks.
The good nuns, who had been so sure of her vocation, perceived with great astonishment that Mademoiselle Rouault seemed to be slipping from them.
Emma at first felt a great astonishment; then was anxious to be delivered that she might know what it was to be a mother.
Emma thrilled at the sound of his step; then in his presence the emotion subsided, and afterwards there remained to her only an immense astonishment that ended in sorrow.
"You!" she said in astonishment; "I thought you very light-hearted."
Madame de Renal gazed at him with eyes of astonishment.
She was in a state of profound astonishment.
Her extreme ignorance was of service to her again at this moment; astonishment tempered her grief.
Madame de Renal could not get over her astonishment at finding him so awkward and at the same time so bold.
He was in that state of astonishment and uneasy misgivings into which a heart falls when it has just obtained what it has long desired.
When Madame de Renal was calm enough to reflect, she could not get over her astonishment that such happiness could exist and that she had never had the slightest idea of it.
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