amazement

How To Use amazement In A Sentence

• A son of Israel has no gods whom he can libate," he said, playing with the water to hide his amazement, now greater than before. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
• The manager of a dressmaking factory noted with amazement that her employees all took Sunday for a gala day and not as a day of rest. A Renegade History of the United States
• Bewildered, I watch her eyes flicker with the memory of sudden shock and amazement.
• Now, to their amazement, Bush administration officials find themselves thrust through the equivalent of a Star-Trekkian wormhole into an anti-universe where everything that once worked for them seems to work against them …. Think Progress » White House officials seek Bloomin’ Onion of the Far East.
• His eyes wide, he stared at the back of the church with utter amazement. Christianity Today
• Karen watched in puzzled amazement as he dropped the thing into the wastepaper basket.
• Some are touchingly intimate: my sister-in-law received a set of pastel-colored cotton panties from her middle-school homeroom students, and to my utter amazement was utterly unamazed.
• When it was placed on my desk my reaction was one of total amazement.
• It was four blocks before he caught up with her, and he saw with numb amazement that she was running at nearly forty miles an hour.
• He did sometimes express amazement that some of the great canonical books (The Faerie Queene comes to mind) were taken seriously; this was part of his conversational charm.