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How to use astonished in a sentence

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Hounds are astonished and divided by the sudden appearance of a trip of hares.
I am astonished that you should take exception to an obviously Platonic enthusiasm.
I was astonished to hear a couple of side-musicians criticize the great pianist for turning the clave around.
Amir's father Shah was astonished to hear millions of people back home had tuned in to watch his son fight.
William's eyebrows shot up in bewilderment, and there was a twist in his mouth that nearly resembled an astonished droop.
However, flipping through the first few authors, I was astonished at the calibre of writing, and amazed by its strangeness.
Cleland took his cine camera and filmed the army parade in Red Square, and was astonished not to be arrested.
Veteran London commuters were astonished that taxi drivers, unaccustomed to clear runs through the streets, had stopped complaining.
I was astonished to see multitudes of people in the streets and a score of new buildings.
Amid the low, astonished murmuring of the crowd she stepped forwards to face him.
The astonished defenders recovered in a few moments and began pelting the attackers with arrows and bolts once again.
Read the postings without benefit of rebuttals and one is astonished at the level of casual cruelty and abusiveness visited on innocent youth.
When James first gave me a copy of the original I was absolutely astonished by its power, its passion and its smartness.
Looking around, Jacob was astonished to find large plates of metal hanging down from the lower boughs of the tall trees.
This means astonished, nay furious, taxpayers will see expensive full-time staff working adjacent to cheaper county sub contract workers.
He, learning that she now employs his page, is astonished at her unsuspicious nature.
We were astonished by the severity of heartburn and other symptoms in our patients.
The mental health charity Turning Point and homeless charities were astonished by her ease with people shunned by society.
And yet, even after reading this here, you will be astonished when you do toss those four heads or four tails in a row.
It attracts an array of people, from students, to old men, to astonished Japanese tourists.
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Examples from Classical Literature
My houris are astonished with all they see, and their pleasure is indescribable.
I ask because the chimpanzee does not open its mouth when astonished, or when listening.
Breathlessly Mrs. hawkshaw waited his answer, and she was an astonished woman when it came.
When he had first come into contact with her mind, he was astonished at its clarity.
They were astonished and full of their surprise when their father came to his dinner.
The three fish, all in a row, looked earnestly with their round, bright eyes into 184 the astonished eyes of Ervic the skeezer.
It was no wonder that Joshua Hicks was astonished, for things like this did not happen in hicksville every day.
Still, what astonished him was, that it went straight on without any oscillation.
And he so astonished the Romans with his sorceries that he was honoured with a brazen pillar.
They are quite astonished that, in addition to the execution of the law, good sense and a sound head should be expected from them.
He was so astonished at what he saw that he slid behind the open door out of sight.
If you have thought me happy heretofore, you will now be astonished at my sprightliness.
Both were astonished to see the number of men that O'Neill had under his command.
I was astonished, and felt my curiosity rise as high as my conductress might desire.
There was probably the most astonished temperance man up above Stevens Point the other day that ever was.
She felt as astonished as if some Confucian fanatic had set up his joss at auction.
The astonished and acute attention of her whole being was indefinably expressed by the silence in which she now listened.
The young man was plainly astonished, disconcerted as well by the obtrusion of a sordid detail into the tragedy of the time.
I repeated, a little astonished by this obliquity in a man customarily so direct.
The notification of so early a departure, or else his bluntness, astonished her.
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