How to use astonishing in a sentence

More sentences with astonishing

• The astonishing sight of the Cristo do Corcovado took hold of our attention.From the entry take hold
• What is astonishing, she doesn't want the job. -What’s even more staggering, neither of her friends does either.From the entry what
• The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.From the entry aerial
• For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come.2020 January 31, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, quotee, “Brexit: Flag lowered at Senedd as the UK leaves the EU”, in…. From the entry wrangle
• The sheer volume of Larry Stylinson erotica available online is astonishing.2018, Kate Leaver, The Friendship Cure: Reconnecting in the Modern World, unnumbered page. From the entry Larry Stylinson
• The really astonishing thing about watching this scene is its nonchalance.2017 November 20, Claire Dederer, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”, in The Paris Review. From the entry NBD
• Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing.2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English. From the entry verbosity
• “Arrows drawn on maps build up into an astonishing spaghetti of population movement,” Mr.2014 February 10, Stephen Heyman, “A Literary Tour on the Blue Danube”, in The New York Times. From the entry spaghetti
• I reckon it's pretty astonishing that none of us did go off the rails.2009 July 10, Jenny Johnston, “You won't catch us going to rehab: So have the young stars of Harry Potter turned into superbrats?”, in…. From the entry off the rails
• Torres IV, a stylish garbageman whose vigorous sweeping and spraying broke the unloved tradition, astonishing citizens here.2009 January 31, Adam Nossiter, “The Smell of Success in the Quarter May Change”, in New York Times. From the entry garbageman
• Herbies come out of the south and create frigid, whiteout conditions with astonishing speed.2007, The Explorers Club, Jan Russell, They Lived to Tell the Tale (page 54). From the entry Herbie
• It's astonishing what chickenpoop, trivial-to-intimidate wusses Academia is made of these days.2006 May 17, John Larkin, “OT: Proof of Global Warming”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jun 2026. From the entry chickenpoop
• An astonishing report is, other things being equal, less credible than a nonastonishing one.2002, Karen Jones, “The Politics of Credibility”, in Louise M. Antony, Charlotte E. Witt, editors, A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on…. From the entry nonastonishing
• Perhaps most astonishing of all, however, was the supermarketlike display of this macabre bazaar.1986, Dominique Lapierre, The City of Joy. From the entry supermarketlike
• Astonishing that he could flute so lazy a cantilena while chasing nymphs.1964, Anthony Burgess, The Eve of St Venus. From the entry cantilena
• Yet they've proved that common men can show astonishing fortitude in chasing jam tomorrow.1961 October, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 17, number 8. From the entry jam tomorrow
• This explains the railroads' enthusiasm for the astonishing growth of trailer-on-flat-car traffic (T.O.F.C., or more commonly "piggyback").1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 681. From the entry TOFC
• And I may add that with astonishing accuracy this superb example is worn over a green alb.1923, Compton Mackenzie, “St. Cuthbert’s, Chelsea”, in The Parson’s Progress, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, page 136. From the entry orphrey
• The students are growing and developing at an astonishing rate mentally, physically, and morally.1915: Religious Education, volume 10, page 533 (Religious Education Association). From the entry age of judgment
• "Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window.1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter XVI, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, 1st book (The…. From the entry gloom
• It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.2022 November 23, Hadley Freeman, “Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan”, in The Guardian. From the entry hungry
• An astonishing exception, however, is a single fossil of a handfish, so-named because they ʻwalkʼ on fin-like hands.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 69. From the entry handfish
• Even after producing such astonishing "proofs" of Semon’s mnemic theory, the amphibians in Kammerer’s lab were allowed no rest.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 39. From the entry mnemic
• Your ignorance & pack of knowledge of Iowa is astonishing.2017 December 8, @JohnstonShow, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2025. From the entry istaphobe
• The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve.2014 May 26, David Dewitt, Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World, Catapult, →ISBN. From the entry pinery
• Astonishing how few peasants and regular people got vamped back in the olden days, when it wasn't regulated.2012, Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan, Team Human, Harper Collins, →ISBN. From the entry vamp
• Prosopomorphic lids made of processed and baked clay, stylized with motifs and astonishing artistic ornamentation discovered in Fafos.2012, Milot Berisha, Archaeological Guide of Kosovo, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2021, page 28. From the entry prosopomorphic
• But there is an astonishing aspect of the official treatment of emancipados in burocratic documents of the colonial state.2011, Ulrike Schmieder, Michael Zeuske, Katja Füllberg-Stolberg, The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN…. From the entry burocratic
• This child's will to love and thrive is astonishing.2010, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Hidden in Plain Sight, page 197. From the entry true grit
• The number of takeouts that have grubby floors is astonishing.2009 October 4, hellicopter, “Land tax will do little”, in nz.general (Usenet). From the entry takeout
• Big Bertha, the crowd-pleasing sand tiger shark who survived an astonishing four decades at the New York Aquarium, has died.2008 April 2, Tracy Connor, "'Mellow' shark dies," Daily News (New York) (retrieved 9 Sep. 2008). From the entry off one's game
• Even granting its octopodean ramifications, the entailments of Morgan's theory were so extensive that it could enable astonishing connections.1999, Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry octopodean
• Along with a housey bass beat, it makes one of the most astonishing dance tracks you've ever heard.1990 August 31, Bill Wyman, “Bringing the noise: Public Enemy on the front lines”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry housey
• But when you look closely at exactly what transpires in these workshops, the power they continue to have is astonishing.1988 June 10, Sharon Solwitz, “The Gospel According to Gordon Lish”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry transpires
• Less than thirty seconds bridged the whole astonishing transformation.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry bridge
• Ladies’ grey flannelette bloomers, three shillings a pair, astonishing bargain.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry bloomers
• This city, Ordos, suggests that the great Chinese building boom, which did so much to fuel the country's astonishing economic growth, is over.2012 March 17, Peter Day, “Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China”, in BBC, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2014. From the entry ordos
• It was, to put it another way, quite astonishing to see how much, and to what at extent, the party-state depended on lies.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 188. From the entry party state
• An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often two stories high.1994, David K. Jordan, “The Popular Practice of Religion”, in Cultural Change in Postwar Taiwan, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry story
• For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.1982, Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design. From the entry upliftment

Meaning of astonishing

1. adjective Causing astonishment.

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Questions about astonishing in a sentence

How do you use astonishing in a sentence?

Astonishing is used as an adjective. For example: “The astonishing sight of the Cristo do Corcovado took hold of our attention.”

What is a short sentence with astonishing?

“The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.”

What does astonishing mean?

Astonishing means causing astonishment.