How to Use wondrous in a Sentence

wondrous

adjective
  • The museum featured a display of wondrous tapestries.
  • So walk to the rim of the Grand Canyon today and gaze out at the wondrous beauty.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2022
  • Here’s your guide to the most iconic burgers and wondrous French fries in the city.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But to me, L.A. is a wondrous place despite its faults.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But to say anything at all to them could be as wondrous as landing on the moon.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
  • At Avondale Park and at Sloss Furnaces, of all the wondrous places.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 7 July 2022
  • Come back to your senses while taking in the wondrous views.
    Jasmine Grant, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2024
  • See the full list of the most wondrous natural wonders at titantravel.co.uk.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2023
  • But either way, the question of what this strange thing was led to a wondrous story.
    Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • Our minds have a weird and wondrous way of transporting us to other places and times.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The two boys share in wondrous and gleeful games of fantasy.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The great outdoors wouldn’t be so great without all the wondrous flora and fauna.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Donate to the Park's main foundation, which works year-round on behalf of this wondrous place.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The answer, at least according to Sheldrake, is at once alien and wondrous.
    Jennifer Kahn, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • So grab your phone, tablet, or computer and delve into the wondrous world of robots.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2023
  • While the actual competitions are thrilling to watch, the scene on the streets is also a wondrous sight.
    Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 29 July 2024
  • You could be filled with awe at how beautiful and wondrous the universe truly is.
    Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
  • As with so many other wondrous creatures, humans have nearly loved the red coral to death.
    Autumn Spanne, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But some findings—perhaps the most wondrous of all—are serendipitous, a matter of just happening to be in the right place at the right time.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The next two songs conjure journeys through outer space, one jarring and one wondrous.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The mind of Kyler Cole Murray is a mysterious, wondrous place.
    New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The presence of the wondrous Maribel Verdú is a different matter.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • And the wondrous mountain ranges bordering the region confine this haze over the region.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Yet from this simple matter, time, wind, and rain have composed a wondrous story.
    Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The emotion, the euphoric instinct to attribute the wondrous to the divine, was understandable.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • At that moment, there was nothing more wondrous than two ordinary birds finding a place to call their own.
    Caroline Van Hemert, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Every year in August, the night sky grows even more wondrous when the Perseid meteor shower takes place.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2021
  • The wondrous ringed world will look especially lovely through a telescope at this time.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Few Latin American directors have his nuanced sense of genre, nor take it to such wondrous places.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • But fast-forward 50 years, and multitrillion-dollar supply chains have sprung up to transform silica-rich sands into sophisticated, wondrous computers that live in our pockets.
    Vipul Ved Prakash, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024

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