How to Use astonished in a Sentence
astonished
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Most of the trees were still in bloom, shedding white petals on grass that was a bright, astonished green.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
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The woman stands astonished, covers her face with the geese.
—Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
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Moore held a hand to her cheek, astonished and thrilled at the transformation.
—Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
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Ann knocked on the door, which was opened by a teenage girl flanked by a passel of astonished children, then their mother.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
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People rushed in for fist bumps and high fives and selfies with the astonished veterans, some of whom were moved to tears.
—Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
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Teague took off running and soared over the receptacle, then relished the astonished cheers of those who had put him up to it.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
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They were also astonished to learn that the note was nearly a century old.
—Washington Post, 30 June 2021
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Afghans were no less astonished by the speed with which their government crumbled.
—Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2021
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Between the tomatoes and the shed sits an astonished-looking dragon.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
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And to this day, I am astonished that my parents undertook a similar path with the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church.
—New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
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Be astonished, too, by the country making theater a theater of war.
—Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
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Expressions of astonished glee lit up both kids’ faces.
—Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
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At $424, things were looking up a bit, though most of the world was still astonished people would pay that much for a digital currency.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2017
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His eighteen-year-old daughter, Zarina, was pregnant, and looked at me with astonished eyes, green and yellow like the grass of the steppe in summer.
—Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
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The New York Times ran a story on it last week, and the perpetually astonished world of crime buffs got all excited for a few days.
—Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
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Serving into the sun in the final game, Osaka clunked her shot off the lip of her racket, blooping the ball past an astonished Tomljanović.
—Steven Wine, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2021
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One corker of a courtroom exchange is such a stunner that readers will be left astonished.
—Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2018
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The astonished congregants see it as a direct message from God.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
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The camera cut to his mother and sister in the audience — who had their own astonished reactions.
—Jerry Portwood, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2021
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Amid the biting jokes and astonished tweets were some more serious digs at Bezos and his business practices.
—Washington Post, 20 July 2021
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When Sarthak Malani passes other runners in a half-marathon, the astonished look on their faces gives him a little ping of satisfaction.
—Jen Murphy, WSJ, 4 June 2022
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But he was still astonished to receive a letter from McCartney asking him to take a stab at covering one of his songs.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2022
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Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared somewhat astonished at the brazen actions of the shooter with officers in the area.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 20 June 2022
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The latter’s astonished acceptance speech is one of the sweetest in history.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2021
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As a parent of a college student, I am astonished that my shopkeeper parents paid my tuition in full.
—New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
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One of the creatures bounded away in a freakish, kangaroo-like hop, leaving an astonished Bullard flailing.
—Oliver Milman, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
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From the History of the American People series; the 1956 work—on loan from its astonished owners—joined the rest of the extant panels for the remainder of the exhibition.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
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Someone’s social media post surely got lots of likes and astonished face emojis.
—New York Times, 23 July 2021
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Our cabby told us about an astonished couple preparing to get their daughter from her car seat when a baboon popped into the back, grabbed the baby bottle, chugged it, and then gave it back to the baby.
—Bella English, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
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The older women are astonished—everyone at the meeting voted against Trump.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
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