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astonishment English

Meaning astonishment meaning

What does astonishment mean?

astonishment

the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising he looked at me in astonishment

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Simple sentences

Between astonishment and sorrow, she could not speak a word.
Astonishment deprived me of speech.
The news filled me with astonishment.
To the astonishment of the whole city, the mayor was arrested.
She stared at him in astonishment.
His expression is full of ferocity and astonishment at the same time.
Tom stared at Mary in astonishment.
I stared at him in astonishment.
She stared at the man in silent astonishment.
I asked my friend if he had noticed something weird in my speech. To my greatest astonishment, he said he hadn't.
When the Tsar saw the linen he was struck with astonishment at its fineness and beauty.

Movie subtitles

A thousand dollars. I'll give it to the Milk Fund. If you ever have any money to the Milk Fund it would churn out of sheer astonishment.
His astonishment made me happy.
Those that were saved, straggling ashore, dazed and resentful, found almost to their astonishment a new reality waiting for them.
Astonishment that they dared do it, and astonishment that they succeeded.
To his astonishment, the statue bowed to him. As if accepting.
Only a few reporters had been able to reach him, to the astonishment of the public at large.
In the meantime, however, we can only express our astonishment.
Describe their awe and astonishment, at the sight of my wisdom!
Astonishment persists, since security measures were taken. How could the Pope disappear, be kidnapped between the airport and his residence?
Perhaps I just needed someone to share my astonishment.
To the astonishment of everyone the entire universe was expanding.
I went to the theater to tell Mozart something, anything when suddenly, in the middle of the third act to my astonishment, the emperor who never attended rehearsals, suddenly appeared.
You can understand my astonishment, Mr. Holmes, when I found that, with some minor reservations, his entire estate had been left to me.
However, my astonishment at these libels can hardly surprise you.
Astonishment.
Porter, you have an unending capacity for counterfeit astonishment.
If someone had told him about Esther Williams. and the astonishment known as underwater ballet.
It began with a quickening sense of wonder and astonishment that always accompanied the first snowfall.
Full of astonishment I look back on our lives. on our former reality and think it was all a dream. It was a game. Lord knows what the hell we were doing.
Then, to your astonishment, nothing happened.
As she pieced the puzzle together, she realized to her astonishment that the image that was formed was her very own room, and the figure in the center of the puzzle, as she completed it, was herself.
Therefore is this land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse.
The small red hole in the forehead or the look of astonishment on her face.
Why the astonishment?
Forgive us. You cannot understand our astonishment. We thought you were dead.
Once, even to see a planet through a telescope was an astonishment.
But your astonishment doesn't surprise me.
We were absolutely astonishment when the concern director went crazy about it.
Narumov could not recover from his astonishment.
I went to the theatre to tell Mozart something, anything. when suddenly. in the middle of the third act. to my astonishment, the emperor. who never attended rehearsals. suddenly appeared.
I learned astonishment that night.
But as she pieced the puzzle together she realized to her astonishment that the image that was formed was her very own room. And the figure in the centre of the puzzle as she completed it was herself.
You can imagine my astonishment to hear from him while I was packing Daddy up. Hello?

News and current affairs

You are watching with legitimate concern (and a mixture of astonishment and anger) as Europe's crippling debt crisis spreads and America's dysfunctional politics leave it unable to revive its moribund economy.
Instead, to the FARC's astonishment, the government's plan to retake control of the region was serious.
Not a few policymakers in the US and in Europe have reacted with astonishment, or even annoyance, to these emerging democratic powers' attempts to pursue their own agendas on the world stage.
Given the vast amount of direct and circumstantial evidence that the rigging was on behalf of Kibaki, Frazer's assignment of equal blame to each side was met with astonishment and dismay by the opposition.

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