ASTOUNDING in a Sentence
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47 example sentences for ASTOUNDING, such as:
1. We were astounded to read your letter.
2. Sherlock Holmes's answer was an astounding one.
3. It's an astounding thing how man believes in words.
4. He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance.
5. He had read with astounding breadth, and astounding lack of judgment.
2. Sherlock Holmes's answer was an astounding one.
3. It's an astounding thing how man believes in words.
4. He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance.
5. He had read with astounding breadth, and astounding lack of judgment.
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Meanings and Examples of ASTOUNDING
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astounding
a. so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
a. bewildering or striking dumb with wonder
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light.
2 Thomas Sawyer, this is the most astounding confession I have ever listened to.
3 One of those omniscient and aweinspiring marvels, a detective, came up from St. Louis, moused around, shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve.
4 My tale was not one to announce publicly; its astounding horror would be looked upon as madness by the vulgar.
5 Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.
6 She knitted an astounding purple scarf, which she hid under his supper plate.
7 He had read with astounding breadth, and astounding lack of judgment.
8 And when he did look around, it was with the astonished air of one at whose feet a thunderbolt has just burst, and who hears still the astounding report ringing in his ears.
9 Sherlock Holmes's answer was an astounding one.
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10 It's an astounding thing how man believes in words.
11 His activity at that time was no less astounding than it was in Egypt, in Italy, in Austria, and in Prussia.
12 Such a book being there was wonderful enough; but still more astounding were the notes penciled in the margin, and plainly referring to the text.
13 Perhaps it was told him more directly in letters from his sister in Jonesboro who was astounded at his marriage.
14 And Melanie, with a fierce "love-me-love-my-dog" look on her face, made converse with astounded hostesses.
15 When Dr. Meade told her she was pregnant, she was astounded, for she had been expecting a diagnosis of biliousness and over-wrought nerves.
Example Sentence:
1 The ignorant audacity to believe that I don't appreciate the life and death of what I kill is astounding.
2 Louis, moused around, shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve.
3 Louis shook his head, looked wise, and made that sort of astounding success which members of that craft usually achieve.
4 The Chairman's remarks were so astounding that the audience listened to him with bated breath.
5 Granny was astounded and a little piqued, I think, because it had all been arranged without her knowledge.
6 We were astounded to read your letter.
7 The events of the past dovetail into those of the present, with parallels that surprise, astound, shock and delight.
8 He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance.