astonished
adjective
as·ton·ished
ə-ˈstä-nisht 
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Examples of astonished in a Sentence
was astonished at seeing a cow wandering down Main Street
grandparents astonished at how much their grandchildren had grown in the past year
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One of the most memorable examples is Caravaggio’s painting from 1601, in the National Gallery in London, showing an astonished apostle wearing a scallop shell on his vest.
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Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
Very quickly, Hughes and the Hughes Aircraft company, with characteristic enthusiasm, took over the entire project and left Kaiser on the sidelines more or less as an astonished spectator.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
The giant wall of (working!) video monitors that Wagner and his team built ended up being a great way to pull the characters, and the camera, into the same astonished viewership as the ABC audience.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
Much of this diaspora has also responded to Assad’s downfall with astonished glee, some rushing to return home.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
Very quickly, Hughes and the Hughes Aircraft company, with characteristic enthusiasm, took over the entire project and left Kaiser on the sidelines more or less as an astonished spectator.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
The giant wall of (working!) video monitors that Wagner and his team built ended up being a great way to pull the characters, and the camera, into the same astonished viewership as the ABC audience.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
Much of this diaspora has also responded to Assad’s downfall with astonished glee, some rushing to return home.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Astonished.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astonished. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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