consternation

How To Use consternation In A Sentence

• Why it gave me consternation I could not have told; I dare say my inveracities of the day before had failed to digest. The Flower of the Chapdelaines
• Efforts to add to the magazine an insert with news of the local congregations were greeted with consternation: the opposition was deemed to be far more dangerous that it really was.
• The announcement of her retirement caused consternation among tennis fans.
• In it Hansen presents a delicately balanced narrative of a teenaged postulant who receives the stigmata, to the consternation and even embarrassment of her religious community.
• A new power station is being built much to the consternation of environmental groups .
• One of them has just gotten back together with his ex-girlfriend, much to the consternation of the other two, who've recently enjoyed a threesome with her.
• These people are normally quickly eliminated, but they can cause real consternation among their neighbours.
• The announcement created surprise and consternation.
• His decision caused consternation in the art photography community.
• But the news of the governor-general's arrival struck them with consternation, and vakeels were sent to Agra, to learn on what terms a pacification might yet be effected. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844