How To Use Aghast In A Sentence
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So I expose them to the objective complement and the compellative, and then stand aghast at their behavior when they make all the mistakes that can possibly be made in using a given number of words.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
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I'm getting a de-rection," mutters Barney, aghast at her decline.
The New Season in Review: Monday Madness
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The next morning I went downstairs and popped the hood and was aghast -- with an Arabian-Hebrew pronunciation of the "gh" -- guttural anguish.
Ray Hanania: (Humor) Memorial Day Weekend Memories
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Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on
Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
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I was aghast, and stopped her, telling her that every single one of those pills contraindicates my Tegretol.
Monkeyfister
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Hornby was aghast but answered her questions in increasingly staccato and downbeat tones.
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When I was twelve I began sprouting my first pubic hair, and I was aghast.
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She was aghast at the extent of the damage to her car.
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She imitates his nasal hee-haw very loudly and we look on, aghast.
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Television cameras exposed the errors, viewers were aghast and the sport's officials were left red-faced.
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Like countless others, I am aghast and incredulous at the fact that the postal service to my house has all but collapsed.
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Behold him next assuming the reins of government at a time when every other mind on earth would have shrunk aghast from the fearful task, or sunk beneath its complicated perils.
The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln
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Some No 10 insiders are aghast at the prospect.
Times, Sunday Times
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And did the cart go for it?" inquired Captain Bunting, aghast.
The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
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The latter, contrary to the expressed view of the Chief Whip, was aghast at the prospect of resignation.
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We stand aghast at the loss of innocence.
Christianity Today
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Recently, Macintosh and his wife, Claire, had family pictures taken and were aghast to see how much they seem to have aged in the year.
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I saw it on SBS at about two in the morning, once, and sat there aghast for the duration.
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Amid the muddle, Australia and New Zealand, the region's most influential powers, stood aghast as outrage followed outrage.
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The message board, normally the exclusive domain of fashion and beauty tips, was full of comments from fashionistas aghast at the proposed changes.
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While I realized I hold distinctly different views on the world from most of the people there I would also have to say that I am aghast that they'd use the word "slut" or that they would wonder why there is such a strong reaction to the term cunt or slut.
Bread n Roses poster: Bev Oda is a slut
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A Sea Folk woman stared back at her, aghast, with a dozen begemmed rings in her ears and twice as many golden medallions dangling from the chain running to her nose ring.
A Crown of Swords
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His blue eyes blacken and I watch aghast, as he buries his face in his hands with a barely stifled groan.
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Not for the world!" she protested, aghast at the bare suggestion; and for fear it might be repeated in some less evadable form, she made an excuse of her duty and ran away to her aunt.
The Price
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Indeed, the prime impulse behind the campaign to save nature, and expressly to husband wilderness, was aghast awareness of its imminent disappearance, in tandem with conscience-stricken guilt at their forebears' rapacity and greed.
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Like so many of your correspondents I too am appalled, aghast and ashamed.
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Alboufaki, stood aghast at the command of Carathis to set forward, notwithstanding it was noon, and the heat fierce enough to calcine even rocks.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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Naturally, neoclassical economists will stand aghast at what they regard as an unwarranted political intrusion into the realm of positive economics.
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I sat aghast as I watched the worst sex scenes ever filmed with some of the ugliest camera-work that I have ever seen.
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Kara stared aghast as the brawny Maggie Finch, with a florid complexion like red brick and forearms like a butcher's, rolled up her sleeves and went to meet the threat of the two men in black Greek fisherman's garb.
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They make an odd pair: the boy is tall, handsome, brilliant, a classic know-all with immense charm; the father seems older than his real age, depressed, a drunk, somewhere between being amused by and aghast at his own son.
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I know many videophiles will be aghast, but my concern in changing ratios stems from butchering widescreen to pan and scan.
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On the other hand, most readers would probably be appalled and aghast at this stuff.
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And yet they are aghast at the prospect of walking anywhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Iyengar, who specialises in laws related to intellectual property rights, was aghast.
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Tell-tale splodges between the fingers, round the ankles and, in a couple of particularly bad cases, down the cleavage suggested that I wasn't the only one aghast at the effects of nine months swaddled in layers of woollies.
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I am aghast with horror that at this late stage in the day, we are still having to have this argument.
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She stops and looks momentarily aghast.
The Sun
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This had prompted a backlash coalition, ranging from those Dutch uncles aghast at his moral reprehensibility; through those amateur psychologists gauging that he had just too many character flaws to be depended upon for the pressures of high office; down to the pragmatists who merely doubted his abilities at summits and treaties, given the lack of tact and diplomacy witnessed during the campaign.
Confessional
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She stood aghast at the black shadow in the drawing room.
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Marr said many people on the left would be "aghast" to hear him criticise FoI.
Tony Blair's A Journey memoir released – live blog
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He stood aghast at the sight of so much blood.
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She was aghast at the extent of the damage to her car.
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He must be aghast at England's dismal results, even if he does not blame Robinson for the lack of a global vision for the defence of the world title.
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It was clear the Italian couple and Russians were aghast but keeping clear of interfering.
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And the rest of the country looks on aghast.
The Sun
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Elena was aghast, Sean remained unimpressed, making Pablo feel let down.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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Her garland is tangled in a string of pearls and her father is aghast as she snaps the string and "amid a shower of pearls," the flowers fall.
“Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
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My 18-year-old son stands aghast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having grown up in Maine, I used that well-worn term 'appalled and aghast,' so I started looking into it, Orcutt said.
Whoopie pies spark food fight between Pennsylvania, Maine
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Reggie stopped buttoning his shirt and stood aghast: ‘That's extraordinary doctor, that's exactly how I feel!’
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There are, however, many decent Christians who are horrified and aghast.
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Even so they were aghast at the sheer jaw-dropping viciousness of the unexpurgated smears he planned.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd asked, aghast, since Hardy was so obviously sympathetic to women.
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People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties.
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This is no time for political reporters to be holding their noses like dowager duchesses aghast at the vulgarity of the masses.
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They stand aghast that a person can devote so much of their busy life to quiet conversations with these furry friends.
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But the audience watched aghast as he shook uncontrollably and fluffed a string of scripted lines before bursting into tears.
The Sun
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America, Bishop Potter had gained wide renown as an ecclesiastic; added to which his prominence in civic affairs, and in matters of national importance, together with a public championship of workingmen's rights at which many wealthy churchpeople stood aghast, made him one of the most notable figures in American life.
The Story of Cooperstown
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The Clonmore man looked on aghast but was quickly granted a reprieve.
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The court was utterly speechless, they were aghast at her rude behavior.
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I manoeuvre the dental floss into place in front of an aghast Lucker, and whip them away, as Laverne instructed.
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Then," I continued, "perhaps you have found a prince of the church, pale as alabaster, sitting in his red robe, who put together the indicatory evidence of the crime that baffled you with such uncanny acumen that you stood aghast at his perspicacity?
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
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People are truly aghast by what had to have been a pre-mediated attack.
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Opponents of this sea change were aghast and direfully warned that if this were to occur, the sky would fall and civilization as we know it would come to an end.
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They were aghast to see their dirt champion humbled so comprehensively on a surface alien to him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Liberals have looked on aghast at the Supreme Court's expansion of Constitutional rights this term freer political speech, another watershed gun case.
The Supreme Court's 'Subsidies'
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And I, who had saved and scraped, traded like a Shylock and made junkmen weep; I, who had stood aghast when French Frank, at a single stroke, spent eighty cents for whisky for eight men, I turned myself loose with a more lavish disregard for money than any of them.
Chapter 12
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He said a lot of people walked out, because they were expecting croony jazzy style, and were quite aghast at the new direction.
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Naturally, neoclassical economists will stand aghast at what they regard as an unwarranted political intrusion into the realm of positive economics.
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Cultures like the Japanese or some continental European ones are less aghast at the idea of collective decision making and responsibility.
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In what was a fairly liberal audience, some people were aghast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Sullivan seemed aghast at the prospect of losing his only daughter to this arrogant young man.
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The interviewer was aghast that I could question the prime minister's integrity.
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I was aghast and horrified at the extent of human stupidity, and chalked it up to a quickly passing fad that would be soon go the way of foot binding.
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By the time she finished, Mary Anne had traveled from horror-struck to aghast.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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I am aghast (and too much of a puritan to be comfortable with such time-wasting).
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His father would stand aghast at his impiousness; his mother, class conscious as few of the under dogs are ever class conscious, would refuse to receive this girl as her daughter. ...
Youth Challenges
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I watched aghast as he drank it down.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone was aghast at the verdict.
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She stood aghast at the snake.
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The latter, contrary to the expressed view of the Chief Whip, was aghast at the prospect of resignation.
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The present period is most undoubtedly the period of the cetaceans; and the future geologist who goes hunting for dry bones among the ooze of the Atlantic, now known to us only by the scanty dredgings of our 'Alerts' and 'Challengers,' but then upheaved into snow-clad Alps or vine-covered Apennines, will doubtless stand aghast at the huge skeletons of our whales and our razorbacks, and will mutter to himself in awe-struck astonishment, in the exact words of my friend at South Kensington, 'Things used all to be so very big in those days, usedn't they?'
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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Thrust off balance, Ikeda reeled backwards, shocked and aghast.
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The image was thrown up of someone in a twinset and pearls, laying her knitting in her lap, aghast at the immorality of it all.
Why Ed reminds women of every bad ex-boyfriend
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He would be aghast at the spread of materialism and greed, and angry at our indifference to poverty and deprivation.
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He turns to Cymry and widens his eyes, giving her such a droll, woeful and aghast look all in one that she starts laughing anew.
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No sooner has Frank recovered the uphill ski than he turns aghast to see another bad crash and a second guided missile just brushing past him.
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The photographer looks aghast as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the other hand, most readers would probably be appalled and aghast at this stuff.
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This begins immediately for Foxe when Elizabeth is arrested. 168 In Foxe's melodramatic depiction, Queen Mary's commissioners arrived at Elizabeth's residence in the middle of the night, barged their way past the "aghast" servants and told the princess that they had orders to bring her to court "either quick or dead.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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She looked slightly aghast at his words, but any real emotion she hid behind a mask of silent fury.
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For a moment Lady Elizabeth stood aghast, looking after the yapping little dog as it charged toward the ducks, which floated with magnificent unconcern in the center of the mirrorlike water.
Shameless
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Despite this, she has no plans to stand down at the next election, looking aghast at the suggestion.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was aghast at the idea.
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
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She stops and looks momentarily aghast.
The Sun
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This country does have certain quirky export bans, for very spurious reasons, and we would be aghast if the intention is to use this legislation to extend those sorts of controls.
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On the other hand, most readers would probably be appalled and aghast at this stuff.
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She stood aghast at the black shadow in the drawing room.
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I was aghast that people would resort to this.
Times, Sunday Times
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No wonder my companion, a critically recognised but financially struggling choreographer, was aghast at the idea that so many people pay good money to watch bad dance.
Times, Sunday Times
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She stared, aghast, at the fine-honed beauty of that chest.
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The church volunteers who serve it were aghast and flabbergasted.
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Top-hatted figures look on, aghast in the way that only top-hatted figures in films can be aghast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jasmine jolted to a halt and stared aghast into the unholy creature's absent eyes.
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He has watched aghast as the Hamas bombing campaign has killed 57 people in nine days.
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Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been obliterated by a weapon of mass destruction.
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Everyone was aghast at the verdict.
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But upon reaching the coffin, which was framed in white and black marble and laced with gold trimmings, she stood aghast in silence for what seemed like an eternity.
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When he finally made it to the venue of Lord Fraser's inquiry into the new Scottish parliament building he was huffing and puffing - and was aghast to be met by a further flight of stairs to the waiting room for witnesses.
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Die Trim" is surely a very unfortunate illision indeed in this size-zero-aghast generation?
Archive 2007-02-01
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Hark looks on aghast at his ruined production, but snaps out of it when the audience responds with a standing ovation.
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The slim night elf sat atop his cat, his expression aghast.
THE SUNDERING
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Officials, keen to test the effectiveness of the new procedures, were aghast when they managed to smuggle dangerous items through the security checks and into the duty-free area.
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He stood aghast at the terrible sight.
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Husband on a Short Fuse looks aghast.
Times, Sunday Times
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We stood open mouthed and the English couples dining were all aghast at this behaviour.
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One woman, who moved to the area in the summer of 2003, was aghast at the horror in her own backyard.
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And as they searched his chamber they found in a chest two shirts of hair made full of great knots, and then they said: Certainly he was a good man; and coming down into the churchward they began to dread and fear that the ground would not have borne them, and were marvellously aghast, but they supposed that the earth would have swallowed them all quick.
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
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Faces, necks, arms reeked and shone in the heat, ribbons streamed, gross odors arose, the goombay dominated all, and children of the master race -- for even I was permitted to witness these orgies -- without comprehending, stood aghast.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines
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Many a time I found myself aghast at some of the personal details these writers exposed about their lives - drug use, fighting sicknesses such as Cancer or AIDS or their revelations of family issues or other domestic crises.
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Little wonder that, as one newspaper put it, Ministers were aghast at the verdict.
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Her reverie was broken by a babel of voices, the approach of running feet, and suddenly her vision was filled with Theo's aghast features.
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One telling anecdote earlier this year had watchdog watchers aghast and amazed.
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For two days after Lizzie's arrival in camp, she refused to speak or eat; for the next two days she ate everything she could lay her hands on, but still kept an unbroken silence; and for another two days, whenever she was not eating, she "yabbered" so much and so fast that the other gins looked on aghast, unable to get a word in edgewise, so continuous was the flow of Hinchinbrook vituperation.
Australian Search Party
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As a good practicing Christian, don't you think many of your Christian friends, and fellows and other followers would be aghast at this?
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He looked aghast, literally casting his head around for excuses.
Times, Sunday Times
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All her unfulfilled promises arose before her, like a vexed sea whose waves run mountains high; and her soul, which seemed but one mass of lies, shrunk back aghast from the 'awful look' of him whom she had formerly talked to, as if he had been
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
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People were aghast when you criticised it then.
Times, Sunday Times
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Naturally, neoclassical economists will stand aghast at what they regard as an unwarranted political intrusion into the realm of positive economics.
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Naturally, neoclassical economists will stand aghast at what they regard as an unwarranted political intrusion into the realm of positive economics.
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Some of the Republican policies have left feminists dismayed and aghast.
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He stood aghast at the terrible sight.
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What should have everyone aghast is that this man fantasizes himself as Presidential material.
Fueling speculation, Dobbs appears to soften on key issue
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And everyone has that experience growing up where there's the, you know, the funny uncle who comes over and he tells, like, dirty jokes that you don't understand and your parents look kind of aghast and they're like, oh, go to your room.
Jokes To Tell Your Parents For Rosh Hashana
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We may shudder at the "heathenism" of a Turkish harem, and send missionaries to convert the Mohammedans; we may stand aghast at the idea of twenty thousand Syrian women sold to supply the harems of the Mussulmans, and pour out our money like water to relieve or release them; but wherein is all this a whit worse than what is constantly practiced, with scarce a word of unfavorable comment, in our own "Christian" (?) land?
Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.
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The present period is most undoubtedly the period of the cetaceans; and the future geologist who goes hunting for dry bones among the ooze of the Atlantic, now known to us only by the scanty dredgings of our 'Alerts' and 'Challengers,' but then upheaved into snow-clad Alps or vine-covered Apennines, will doubtless stand aghast at the huge skeletons of our whales and our razorbacks, and will mutter to himself in awe-struck astonishment, in the exact words of my friend at South Kensington, 'Things used all to be so very big in those days, usedn't they?'
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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The latter, contrary to the expressed view of the Chief Whip, was aghast at the prospect of resignation.
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Television cameras exposed the errors, viewers were aghast and the sport's officials were left red-faced.
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There was to be no stunned silence, no aghast staring and, it seemed, no dramatic response from Greg.
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And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
