astonishment

How To Use astonishment In A Sentence

• If she levels a levelheaded, legitimate accusation, delegitimize it by feigning astonishment and outrage.
• The man walked off in dudgeon, and Mr. Westwyn, losing his anger in his astonishment at this effrontery, said, 'And pray, Mr. Lynmere, what do you pretend to know of Stilton cheese? do they make it at Leipsic? did you ever so much as taste it in your life?' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
• 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.