How to Use astonishing in a Sentence

astonishing

adjective

• The truck can hold an astonishing amount of stuff.
• He showed an astonishing lack of concern for others.
• She gave an astonishing performance in her first film.
• What Williams played that night to kick off the concert was astonishing, Hancock says.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
• The results, four years later, were nothing short of astonishing.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
• And Myles Frost, who plays the adult Jackson, is an astonishing mimic.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• An astonishing amount of lifting of regulations on guns has taken place over the last 15 years.
  — NBC News, 29 May 2022
• Despite this, her astonishing rise carried sponsor power without a racket.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• Middlemen make up an astonishing 73% of healthcare spending—one-third of every tax dollar.
  — WSJ, 1 June 2022
• Yet as the two women slowly form a friendship, that friendship gives way to a brief but passionate love affair—and some of the decade’s most astonishing filmmaking.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 4 June 2022
• These three-hour live shows require astonishing amounts of physical effort to maintain this level of on-stage exuberance.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• It’s astonishing that Long, one of the top economics writers at one of the top American newspapers, didn’t.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 June 2022
• The Eiffel Tower rises in the background, just outside Andy’s (quite astonishing) bedroom window.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
• The Blue Ridge region provides an astonishing abundance of activities beyond hiking, too.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2022
• Dan Fultz: The amount of blood in that kitchen was astonishing.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2024
• The stars seem to be aligned on the menu, too, an astonishing 75 dishes long.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The most astonishing story of the weekend, Ukraine, the collapse of the Russian forces in the sector in the east.
  — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The growth of the Metaverse over the past 12 months is nothing less than astonishing.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Katie Ledecky, far out in front: one of the most astonishing sights in sports and, by now, one of the most familiar.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
• To non-coders, the fact that A.I.s can produce code might seem astonishing.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Some of these works of art are astonishing and nobody made those works of art hoping to get rich.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
• Flightline had put on 100 pounds in the five months since the end of his brief but astonishing racing career.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The changes this abode has seen on the inside in the years since, however, are truly astonishing.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
• Some of the more astonishing problems that Day spotted have stayed with her.
  — Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2024
• For a gear nerd with my own small hoard of guitars, the results have proven nothing short of astonishing.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2023
• Lou Lopez Sénéchal is shooting an astonishing 51.6% from deep this season to lead the Huskies.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2022
• The dry desert mountains were covered in an astonishing amount of grass.
  — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Some of the land in the valley is no longer being farmed, but the area still harbors an astonishing density of crops.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• That a team playing home games at Fenway Park is 19th in the majors in home runs is astonishing.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• The story of the first Jewish person to break out of Auschwitz and make his way to freedom is both compelling and astonishing.
  — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024