astonishment

How To Use astonishment In A Sentence

• If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
• When she had said this she looked at Vinicius with astonishment and regret, for he had disaccustomed her to similar outbursts; and he set his teeth, so as not to tell her that he would have given command to beat such a brother with sticks, or would have sent him as a compeditus Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
• Friends and colleagues expressed astonishment last night as the news broke.
• I spotted a shooting star which, to my astonishment, was bright green in colour.
• I timed it successfully, and had no doubt of having added four to my score, when, to my astonishment, I saw a fieldsman running from the direction of the hedge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920
• Still others, who are initiated by those making a craft of sacred rites, are worthy of astonishment and pity.
• The horseman gave a cry of astonishment and pleasure, and without a word wheeled his horse and galloped past back at headlong speed toward the castle. The Boy Knight
• And, indeed, so solitary and remote is this ancient edifice, and so simple is the mode of living of the people in this by-corner of Spain, that the appearance of even a sorry calesa might well cause astonishment. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
• She could not hide her astonishment.
• The effects of these films leave us in states of astonishment.