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

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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.
To the amazement of all concerned Simon's leukaemia had grown through some of the heaviest drug treatment available.
He expressed a natural amazement that the lines should have been so grossly misunderstood, and defended them as being ‘one of the strongest forms of obtestation, of adjuring God to show mercy, by all His grace, and truth, and love.’ The Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations
I have heard, that if these sublime genuises are wakened from their reveries by the appulse of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of cataleptic patients. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
The excited crowd stood wide eyed in amazement at the spectacle that lit up the night sky.
He also eloquently captured the general ambiance of amazement. The Scientist
She felt an onrush of tenderness, mixed with amazement and a small serving of guilt. AN OLDER WOMAN
From the dinky tin the adherent would peel back the paper lid and remove several spoonfuls of the inert powder, add tapwater, stir and watch in amazement as a lurid froth began to bubble away.
To his amazement, they would ‘take a bath every morning even when the hoar frost was flying thick in the air.’
But the linesman's flag stayed down, to the amazement of the home defenders. The Sun
It also helps to explain some rather anomalous variants in quickly adaptational individuals, as well as unusual but apparently universal expression suiting amazements being documented in medical research. All These Different Creatures are Variations of the Same Theme
And what he saw to his sheer amazement was pure anger.
We were reeling (in amazement/shock/delight, etc. from/with the news that we had won all that money.
Hanford had not read his friend Lowe awrong, and when, behind locked doors, he outlined his plan, the big fellow gazed at him with amazement, his blue eyes sparkling with admiration. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
Â When you do, you'll live more adventurously, more curiously, and with more wonder and amazement than you ever thought possible Karen Talavera: The Journey Is The Destination
I thought that most of the farmers would have better things to do but to my amazement more than 70 showed up.
Much to my amazement the tutors don't yell.
This unnatural act unhinged a stranger sitting next to me who looked on in amazement as he passed the same bus stop he had stood at five minutes previously.
To my amazement, they were burning brightly as the rain fell and water dripped from the ash trees.
And then, to my amazement, she accepts as fact the proposition that some men on the battlefield have been "hallucinated," and proceeds to give the theory of sensory hallucination. The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War
To our amazement, when we returned to China, the Moso tree had grown an impressive ninety feet.
Mickey turned and looked at Jackie in dumbfounded amazement. Word Help Needed Please
It's a constant source of wonder and amazement to me that people do.
We both looked down at her in utter amazement. Times, Sunday Times
At this stage of your progress, if not before, you may be assured that some clever friend will come in, and hold up his hands in mocking amazement, and ask you who could set you to that "niggling;" and if you persevere in it, you will have to sustain considerable persecution from your artistical acquaintances generally, who will tell you that all good drawing depends on "boldness. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
Keith watches me from his seat at the kitchen table, his eyes are a mix of anger, amazement and confusion.
But if a piece of music has demonstrated its potential to be an amazing experience, I'm less concerned with how often that amazement is likely to happen. Spend some time and rock a rhyme / I said, It's not that easy
Colonel Ormonde looked at her with amazement; her greatest charm to men such as he was her dolliness, and this was a new departure. A Crooked Path A Novel
True to his words and to my amazement, he has selected some of the ones I thought were unpalatable to the taste of the Chinese authorities.
To their amazement, his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle, winning him the silver arrow.
We were all struck dumb with amazement.
To my utter amazement, she hardly cried for more than a few seconds!
Just utter amazement and embarrassment. The Sun
To their amazement, his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle, winning him the silver arrow.
The native hunter with me gazed in mingled fear and amazement. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
As we walked in, you could see the look of complete amazement on their faces. Times, Sunday Times
Maidie stared up at him, lost in amazement, unable either to speak or move as she felt his fingers moving deftly in her hair, running through her curls, and prinking them. Gatlinburg
To general amazement they won. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
I looked at him, though still on the floor, his eyes were gleaming strangely with pride and amazement.
Receiving a sharp slap on the shoulder, I turned, and, to my amazement, saw Farmerson, our ironmonger.
He read speeches in a soft voice sometimes inaudible in the crowd, smiled shyly and waved as if in amazement at all the attention.
He dodged, and then watched in amazement as it bounced off a tree but did not shatter.
Slowly, yes, but to my amazement and joy, the spasticity had gone. Times, Sunday Times
Walking out of Hannibal, I was struck with a sense of wonder and amazement.
Several of the children around me gasped their amazement and I had to agree, it was quite cool.
The old man thrust out his tongue; and, to Pool's amazement, he saw the surface of that sensitive organ, from root to tip, tattooed in intricate designs. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
But he also commented that "more of the honest knot are fetched away' which he says "drives me into wonder and amazement '. The English Civil War: A People's History
She was rooted to the spot with fear/amazement.
On the opposite page was the list of acknowledgements; to my amazement, I read my own name. RESCUING ROSE
AQ is watching in amazement as the administration refuses to interrogate them. Think Progress » Rove Backs Off His Criticism Of Counterterrorism Center, Perhaps Remembering Chief Is A Bush Holdover
She expresses amazement that shops shut at 6pm on a Sunday. Times, Sunday Times
He watches in amazement and mentally curses the fact that his camera is fitted with a macro lens.
Much to our amazement and surprise, on our return we found that the car was gone.
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Come to think of it, unless my memory has completely glazed over with the overwhelming sense of amazement, I could have sworn I missed a few bites that were of the unmissable type!
Now, when life is so precious, I can look back on that period with shocked amazement.
To their amazement, he completed the course without hitting anything, to applause from onlookers. Times, Sunday Times
A couple of white-knuckled tourists, fearfully working their way up the cables, stare in amazement as he saunters past.
Saxon's amazement increased, as, article by article, the old woman displayed the airiest, the daintiest, the most delicious and most complete of bridal outfits. CHAPTER VI
So thus it was, in the dusk of the evening, that we came into Tonbridge Town, with never a word betwixt us -- myself silent from sheer amazement, the Captain for reasons of his own, Sir Harry Raikes for very obvious causes, but mostly The Honourable Mr. Tawnish
I feel a sudden tingle of visceral amazement. Times, Sunday Times
But on hearing that Jesus has risen from the dead the women, like the men, fled, “for terror and amazement had sized them.” Religion
Erebus knew her brother well; she perceived that she was confronted by what she called his obstinacy; and though his brazen-faced admission had raised her to the very height of amazement and horror, she uttered no protest. The Terrible Twins
In amazement, Ms. K looks at the misshapen creatures surrounded by tufts of shaggy hair.
It's those times of amazement and astonishment when suddenly your attention is carried away and your breath as well. Christianity Today
But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and, with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bullneck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass. The Beasts of Tarzan
When you do, you'll live more adventurously, more curiously, and with more wonder and amazement than you ever thought possible Karen Talavera: The Journey Is The Destination
The opponent during all of this was reduced to looking on with equal measures of admiration and amazement.
At least a half dozen times today, watching some putt or chip leave a player's clubface, I thought to myself, "Oh, no! That's a terrible shot!" only to watch in amazement as the apparently foozled ball kept rolling and rolling and eventually snuggled in good proximity to the hole. Hills in Them There Greens
The amazement that these shots can awaken is the amplification of the experience itself.
Medical experts yesterday expressed amazement that a trained cardiologist could have made such an error, potentially wasting vital minutes. The Sun
Ian hoisted himself onto the countertop and looked around in amazement at the high ceilings.
Nicola turned to see who the latecomer was and stared in amazement. THE BOOK LADY
To their amazement, his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle, winning him the silver arrow.
I've been posting about how one of the things that really, really has me frothing about this whole situation w/jihad jane is the astonished amazement that (white) americans would ever be recruited into the likes of al aqaeda (or al qaeda wannabes). Dreams.
At the exact moment that the bomb dropped the two were sitting on a hilltop of verdant grass, gazing out in amazement at the splendor that nature had created. The Law of Averages
But mild disappointment isn't as rewarding as wonder and amazement. Times, Sunday Times
This hot, urgent quaking, this most unexpected onslaught of the earthiest of passions, was like nothing she had ever in her life expected to feel, and to her own amazement she discovered she was now completely powerless to resist. Shameless
Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs, and amazements, when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling, dim as a wheel fast spun. Villette
Ask him about it, though, and he still professes amazement that he was even allowed on to the stage.
Fellow Edinburgh architects expressed amazement at the appointment. Times, Sunday Times
At the precise instant that both boys entered the astounding world of 3 - D, they emitted low moans of amazement.
In the past, I stared with amazement and almost revered the brown, smelly liniment as I rubbed it into my bruises.
I express my amazement that America embraced a band so London in lingo. Times, Sunday Times
There was silence for a moment and then the place erupted with cries of delight and amazement.
Oliver followed behind them, watching in silent amazement.
To his utter horror and amazement, 20 to 30 journalists were there to meet him.
Stepping ashore, you see a long line of carriages drawn up in several rows, and of every conceivable variety -- from the Turkish araba to the most coquettish-looking Parisian coupé -- gilded and adorned in a style to make a French lorette stare with amazement at a lavishness of expenditure exceeding her own. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
She remembered his other expressions, wonder, joy, amazement; all positive feelings.
Fans would stare in amazement when he would roll a ball with such backspin that it would slowly reverse itself and roll back up the lane.
I stood, paralysed with amazement, in the kitchen doorway, staring at Rudolf's cage. RESCUING ROSE
We watched as Christopher's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal's fur.
As I watched in amazement, the partner gazed over her shoulder and gave me a big, mocking, self-satisfied wink.
Does it remind us of the time way back in our racial memory when our primogenitors viewed in amazement the shadows dancing on the cave walls?
A couple of people left in a huff, but most of us just stared in amazement.
Countenances of such amazement were turned towards him, that Small, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, could scarcely forbear smiling as he proceeded; and if we could suspect so grave a personage of waggery, we should almost think that, by way of retaliation, he had palmed some abstruse, monkish epicedium upon his astounded auditors. Rookwood
By my dictionary definition, to stupefy means to "overwhelm with amazement, astound, astonish"; "to stun, as with strong emotions, to benumb the faculties of as in 'put in to a stupor'. Karen Kisslinger: Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"
Imagine their amazement when, instead of being roasted, they were taken into a lodge and treated to a kind of whortle-berry pudding _à la sauvage_! French Pathfinders in North America
For a while everyone was struck dumb with amazement.
By temperament and education of a conservative turn, I saw the last years of that quaint Arcadia which French travellers saw with delighted amazement a century ago, and have watched the change (to me a sad one) from an agricultural to a proletary population. Democracy: Inaugural Address on Assuming the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, England, 6 October, 1884
Artists, photographers, filmmakers, kids doing nature study, biogeographers, conservation biologists, and activists, as well as taxonomists, shuffle through them for the sake of beauty, curiosity, and amazement.
Victor heard him, and put up his eyeglass in amazement; but he, in his turn, had only a shirt on, and the hauteur was a failure. Comedies of Courtship
He expresses a disbelief and amazement that such a public and obvious discrimination is not denounced by all. The Sun
Every Wednesday I watch in amazement as rigid, gay-weary men turn into man-hugging metrosexuals over the course of a day.
She dragged them both back to the den to the shock and amazement of all three of them.
Why you must wonder in amazement at all US idiots who get on airplanes and fly to the same places several times a year. Forget The Moon - NASA Watch
I had some dealings with him, and to my amazement, he never agreed to a discount and was always punctual in meeting delivery deadlines.
Our records don't say anything about a starship ," he said in amazement. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
He produced, to my utter amazement, a superb dinner. Times, Sunday Times
The result was general amazement. Times, Sunday Times
Her joy and amazement are particularly well suited to such an unfettered process.
I watched in amazement as the two combatants traded blows and then there was a flash of lightening that dazzled my eyes.
He was a ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a silver ship descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake.
She almost laughed in amazement; the pilot was flying blind - they didn't have a single light on!
She listened in amazement and wonder, and when he ended, she immediately got up.
For some reason, I still maintain the awestruck wonder of a kinder planting beans pressed against the side of a jar so that the roots, hypocotyl, and plumule display, then watch in amazement as they burst through the ground and struggle toward the light. "Hey, Matt. Sure is a gorgeous day to get drunk and throw beanbags back and forth on the front sidewalk for 11 hours!"
After a brief pause to examine the tangled helictites in total amazement we crawled on.
He wept uncontrollably with joy and amazement as he left the theatre, and that night he slept not a wink. Times, Sunday Times
Not until spring was the box opened again, when great was my amazement to find a big moth flapping its wings!
He produced, to my utter amazement, a superb dinner. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes wide, he stared at the back of the church with utter amazement. Christianity Today
So when she heard a knock on her hotel door she just presumed that it was a chambermaid, she certainly didn't expect to see a strange woman wearing a dark tailored suit and a look of total amazement.
The word astonished literally means, “struck dumb with amazement.” 101 Amazing Truths about Jesus
I feared to sip a drop of water, and I am sure that the timpanist saw me looking at him in awe and amazement.
To my amazement, they were burning brightly as the rain fell and water dripped from the ash trees.
It seemed to have something to do with wave dynamics, a sense of harnessing a blast of energy that would rise from one hip, course through the body to the opposite shoulder, flow downward into the fists, which would then surge in opposing directions, bringing the blade through with an amazement of unwilled speed and force, all without trying. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
Watch in amazement as the final free is taken in the All Ireland Hurling Final and the final whistle blows immediately afterwards.
He felt the change with amazement and the belief took hold of him that his visitor had been divine.
Motorists watched in amazement as a 30 ft fountain of water caused an explosion on the electricity lines above a railway track.
I watched with growing amazement a succession of beautiful old pieces of furniture go into the cottage.
To my amazement, he was able to recite the whole poem from memory.
His eyes wide, he stared at the back of the church with utter amazement. Christianity Today
Sometimes I can only wonder in amazement about how our pop stars are forced to suffer for their art.
We all watched in amazement as he juggled with three flaming torches.
Just utter amazement and embarrassment. The Sun
We both looked down at her in utter amazement. Times, Sunday Times
There is so much suffering in the world that we can only sit back in amazement and wonder how this could occur in a just world.
The catchphrase was delivered with a look of saucer-eyed amazement which slayed the studio audience every time.
At the end, she glanced up at the giant plasma screen near the finish line and looked at herself with a little amazement. Times, Sunday Times
I feel a sudden tingle of visceral amazement. Times, Sunday Times
Lars Sonck's cathedral in Tampere in Finland - just make you gasp with joy and sheer amazement at the idea that someone, another human being, thought of and caused to be made this extraordinary, beautiful, breathtaking space. An Interview with Richard Rayner about Cloud Sketcher
Many gentlemen would ask the head waiter in amazement whether we wouldn't prefer champagne. Times, Sunday Times
The Greek media reacted with relief and amazement at their sprinters' announcements.
I forgot to mention earlier that my amazement at the proliferation of wireless networks continues.
The founders of our Great Democracy would be sad today, or maybe they are looking down from above, some laughing, some crying, still others watching in shear amazement. Roberts: White House says 'not the Scott McClellan we knew'
Alexander watched the twin red-hot points of fire smoulder in the figure's flesh, but to his amazement, the wound healed before his eyes.
To our amazement, the advocate then slapped the man hard across the cheek.
Aggressive linguistic subversiveness, which used to be his hallmark, has dwindled into charm; sheer amazement has become indistinct bemusement.
Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement. Dreams of the Raven
By the time they wheeled him into the OR, his bones had already started to reknit, much to the amazement of the medical staff, who were then forced to rebreak and set the radius and ulna of both forearms. Masked
A ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a parachute descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake.
He looked at me with a mixture of amazement and horror.
Can I just say as a Yanqui, that I'm in constant amazement at the idea of a show running from the early 70s to the mid 80s, yet only having twenty-odd episodes?
Jenny turned and to her amazement saw what she describes as a Sasquatch / Bigfoot running along side of her property on the other side of the fence line, which separates her property to her neighbors. American Chronicle
She astounds us all - we just look at her in absolute amazement.
The Germans were rolling their eyeballs and tutting in amazement.
To their amazement, his arrow was the first to pierce the inner gold circle, winning him the silver arrow.
The officers watched in amazement as their daring fugitive escaped.
NYC's Agora gallery is showing the marvellous junk-tech sculptures of Italy's Franco Recchia: he approaches each subject with that sense of innocent amazement, instinctively following a compositive and rigorous logic until each piece is laid in its correct place. Boing Boing
The look Evangeline gave me was one of complete and utter amazement.
Now, she stared at Rome with undisguised amazement.
Walter chuckled and continued to walk, and Edie padded along with him, wide-eyed in amazement.
Occasionally they sneak glances at the businessmen -- who look back at them in mutual amazement and fear.
Withel stared at him in amazement for a moment, and then quietly toppled into the mud.
I was wakened, after having slept uneasily for some hours, by some person shaking me rudely by the shoulder; a small lamp burned in my room, and by its light, to my horror and amazement, I discovered that my visitant was the self-same blind old lady who had so terrified me a few weeks before. The Purcell Papers
The baby was a constant delight and source of amazement.
Just utter amazement and embarrassment. The Sun
With this, I sat down, leaving my audience as _sotto voce_ as fishes with admiration and amazement at the facundity of my eloquence, and should indubitably have been the recipient of innumerable felicitations but for the fact that Miss SPINK, suddenly experiencing sensations of insalubriousness, requested me, without delay, to conduct her from the assemblage. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
He expresses amazement that they have somehow managed to persuade the rest of the island that democratic party politics would be a bad thing. Times, Sunday Times
I spent some time yesterday talking to Janeane Garofalo and her cohost, Sam Seder during a run-through of their show, the Majority Report, and I hear (to my utter amazement) that I'm going to be back at some point when they go on the air.
And everywhere the people turning out, in their hands gifts of flowers, and fruit, and fish, and pig, in their hearts love and song, their heads bowed in obeisance to the royal ones while their lips ejaculated exclamations of amazement or chanted meles of old and unforgotten days. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
In utter amazement, Kirby found herself standing alone on the curb watching Jason's taillights disappear into the night.
His announcement produced gasps of amazement.
To his amazement, the target opens his eyes after the fusillade and discovers he is still alive. First Contact
He looks not at his stepson, but at his wife, and not with anger or amazement, but with what can only be described as love and devotion.
Despite their gloom, the girls gasped in amazement.
To my utter amazement, after discussing various engine tuners, Clive offered to ask John Oliver in person if he would do the refurbishment.
Sage stared in amazement as she was squiggling around, trying to get away.
When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.
The baby was a constant delight and source of amazement.
Occasionally they sneak glances at the businessmen -- who look back at them in mutual amazement and fear.
If I had plighted you a perfect friendship, I am sure my heart could not have borne this rupture and lived; though, indeed, the amazement into which I am cast at having been deceived is so intense and poignant, that if it does not cut short my life, it will at least render it very unhappy. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
As for the amazement that these were built in buttoned down Spain, Catalunya is a very different place from the rest of the country – much more cosmopolitan and ars gratia artis than Madrid, for example. Matthew Yglesias » Pretty Pictures
The initial amazement and anger which greeted his decision has given way, in most quarters, to shrugged resignation.
We both looked down at her in utter amazement. Times, Sunday Times
The general manager stared at him in utter amazement.
His expression changed from amazement to joy.
And as they watched in amazement, Lanyon's skin started taking on a greyish tint, and her hands, raised to ward off the basilisk, froze in place.
That the world should be beastly is natural, but that the faithful bride should become the whore is monstrous, and excites the same amazement in him as the same awful change in Israel excited in Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The couple then watched in amazement as the 6in fish moved his fins. The Sun
To my amazement I found that she was interested in me and she made the first moves.

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