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astonishingly

[ UK /ɐstˈɒnɪʃɪŋli/ ]
[ US /əˈstɑnɪʃɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise
    amazingly, he finished medical school in three years

How To Use astonishingly In A Sentence

  • For all its moments of typical silent-movie hamminess, it remains astonishingly modern. Times, Sunday Times
  • Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • The most desirable properties necessarily command astonishingly high prices.
  • What truly caught his attention was not her astonishingly contrasting beauty, but her secretive ways.
  • This singer has a penchant for scatting and surprising material, but where he has an astonishingly pure voice, hers has more feeling.
  • The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
  • The speed of her rise to fame has been astonishingly rapid.
  • First of all, we have Natalie Portman's astonishingly physical and emotional tour de force, which is worthy of every plaudit and award she has and will win. Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: Favorite Films of the Year
  • The new foliage is astonishingly delicate, as good as any maple, and everyone loves that primitive, fan-shaped leaf. Times, Sunday Times
  • As they wait for assistance to have the man taken into custody, they studiously ignored taunts and provocations and remained astonishingly polite throughout.
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