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How to use astonishment in a sentence

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There were reports he had gone inside and to the astonishment of hospital staff, armed police soon followed in hot pursuit.
Best Mate is not a horse who draws gasps of astonishment with an exuberant leap or a sudden blinding burst.
I've heard of dumb questions but one teacher expressing astonishment at my use of Yen blew me away.
To Davie's astonishment and anger, Aaron mumblingly asks about the possibility of finding something or someone out there.
To my astonishment, his usual calm smile broke into a wide mischievous grin.
To my astonishment, Beavers did not respond with the veneer of civility that usually masks his repugnance.
The nation yelped in astonishment this week when Peter Hyman, the Prime Minister's speech-writer, quit his job to go into teaching.
Then he shut off the motor and volplaned to earth, to the no small astonishment of the surgeon.
He remembers a hackette on a film magazine expressing astonishment that all its subs had degrees.
Apart from the possibility of causing your relatives to pitch off furniture in astonishment, other occupational hazards present themselves.
The hard-boiled reporters in attendance look on in astonishment as the doddering old CEO mimics pumping motions with his arms.
When he got to the bottom of the stairs and saw what they were doing, he stopped in open-mouthed astonishment.
She looked on in wide eyed astonishment as he hefted a fairly large, gray, leather-bound book, in his hands.
The reaction of polite society to this extraordinary work was one of astonishment.
They all shared glances of astonishment, and sprinted around the back to loop behind the last supply ship.
To my astonishment, it was no longer a clear blue, but had turned to a hazel sort of green.
In the time that it took for Eric to register his astonishment, the staff clouted the side of his head and sent him sprawling.
After a couple of minutes, our gasps of astonishment broke up the creepy coffee klatch.
If ever there was a device that so perfectly excites the petrolhead to the complete astonishment of lentil-lovers, it's the sports exhaust.
Viewers gazed in astonishment as the supposedly silver-tongued trial lawyer lurched from one inanity to the next.
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Great astonishment was manifested in every Venda and fazenda at seeing a lady arrive accompanied only by a single servant.
She hurried to her own apartment, leaving them all in astonishment and perplexity.
Its gun room, fur press, ice and meat wells were the delight and astonishment of visitors, white and red.
She was to have danced the pas de deux, and I went to see her do it, but to my astonishment she only danced with the other girls.
On hearing her sobs, batiste and his wife raised their heads in astonishment.
And so forth, to the astonishment of the auditory, who did not exactly see the 'sequitur' in either instance.
Monseigneur bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, which was very new to him.
She was quilling it, and looked up with some astonishment as I walked up to her.
But, to his astonishment, he found that his quagga did not share his intention.
In 1860 he had already begun to observe Sundew, and was full of astonishment at its behaviour.
As Camille listened to his friend, he contemplated him with all the astonishment of a simpleton.
At this, Miss Blaythwaite and worthing looked at each other in astonishment.
This was so unexpected that his wrath was, for the instant, displaced by astonishment.
But his astonishment could hardly have been greater than was that of Hercules, the next moment.
Herodotus, who was a keen observer, was the first to record his astonishment.
He admitted the impeachment in the midst of his astonishment with an abruptness equal to her own.
The victor dropped the bladed end of his weapon, and surveyed his foe, with astonishment, then pity.
The buckshot from our smoothbore muskets flew too thickly for him, and he recoiled in astonishment.
To the astonishment of Elmer, however, the man did not pass beyond the doorsill.
The weak-kneed wastrel, receiving to his astonishment a shilling, departed.
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