How to Use astonished in a Sentence

astonished

adjective

• 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
• The woman stands astonished, covers her face with the geese.
  — Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Moore held a hand to her cheek, astonished and thrilled at the transformation.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• They were also astonished to learn that the note was nearly a century old.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2021
• Afghans were no less astonished by the speed with which their government crumbled.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2021
• Between the tomatoes and the shed sits an astonished-looking dragon.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
• 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
• Be astonished, too, by the country making theater a theater of war.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Expressions of astonished glee lit up both kids’ faces.
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The astonished congregants see it as a direct message from God.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
• The camera cut to his mother and sister in the audience — who had their own astonished reactions.
  — Jerry Portwood, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2021
• Amid the biting jokes and astonished tweets were some more serious digs at Bezos and his business practices.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The latter’s astonished acceptance speech is one of the sweetest in history.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2021
• 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
• One of the creatures bounded away in a freakish, kangaroo-like hop, leaving an astonished Bullard flailing.
  — Oliver Milman, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Someone’s social media post surely got lots of likes and astonished face emojis.
  — New York Times, 23 July 2021
• 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
• The older women are astonished—everyone at the meeting voted against Trump.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024