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How to use wondrous in a sentence

22 example sentences · adjective, adverb

Wondrous means wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous. Example: “We all stared open-mouthed at the wondrous sight.”

Examples of wondrous by meaning

adjectiveWonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.

  • We all stared open-mouthed at the wondrous sight.

More sentences with wondrous

  • Yet in a wondrous variety of ways it is possible for a griever to misgrieve.2012, Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, page 63. From the entry misgrieve
  • Will it be the technically wondrous charms of "Benjamin Button" or the actorly accomplishments of "Milk" ?2009 January 2, David Carr, “I'm Trying to See All These Movies. You Want to Talk? Go Home!”, in New York Times. From the entry actorly
  • His magical boy toy had done all kinds of wondrous things.2004, Jason Fury, Nights of Fury, page 17. From the entry white pee
  • She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair.1959, Erdman Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film). From the entry ageless sleep
  • Boris choreographed a tale about a haughty contessa who tries to seduce a young man with wondrous perfumes.2007 January 8, Jack Anderson, “Ruthanna Boris, Versatile Ballet Russe Dancer, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry contessa
  • These verses are directed to individuals who don't acknowledge the incomprehensible aspects of God as represented by His wondrous creationary power.2002, Robert A. Herrmann, Science Declares Our Universe Is Intelligently Designed, page 209. From the entry creationary
  • This was a "doodlebugger," a man who searches for oil with divining rods of wondrous shapes and descriptions.1963, December 7, William Trombley, “The dowser who finds oil wells”, The Saturday Evening Post, issue 43, page 88. From the entry doodlebugger
  • Moving the entire world, O Sacred, wondrous wood!1925 March 29, Marie Monfils-Chesneau, K. R. Cain, transl., “Holy Days”, in The Courier-Journal, volume CXLI, number 20,542, Louisville…. From the entry triumphator
  • He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth.1902, Henry James, chapter II, in Flickerbridge. From the entry aquarelle
  • Guy Boothby, dealing with his wondrous figure Doctor Nikola.1901 November 14, “Books of the Day”, in Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire, Cheshire, and General Advertiser, number 16,813, page 10…. From the entry Sherlock Holmesiana
  • "The pesky critters are wondrous fond of water."1901, William Tucker Washburn, The Deuce of Hearts, page 445. From the entry unhole
  • Thus, from the 70s on, all the wondrous legal forms of 'self-management negotiations' (dogovaranja) proved inefficient within toothless 'indicative planning' and a profit-bent capitalist market.2016, Darko Suvin, “In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-management”, in Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-ray of Socialist…. From the entry logorrhea
  • A fulfilling relationship is a wondrous thing to have but it does take effort to maintain and that entails the occasional chut pattern.2015, Kenneth Khing, Skycart is write here, [blog entry]. From the entry chut pattern
  • Thus, the former three-hangared armaments factory sports a new layer of paint and a model hot-air balloon, beckoning spectators on a wondrous ride.2014, Atay Citron, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, David Zerbib, Performance Studies in Motion. From the entry hangared
  • To know a gentry mort like this was the most wondrous event of her life, and she craved her approval more than she did God's.2006, Sally Watson, The Outrageous Oriel. From the entry gentry mort
  • By reading the book, the filmwatcher gets a better idea of how Esquivel's spirit world was transformed into the wondrous universe on screen.1997, Donald F. Stevens (editor), Based on a True Story, Latin American History at the Movies, page 171. From the entry filmwatcher
  • The most wondrous valley on earth!1991, Don Rosa, “Return to Xanadu”, in Uncle Scrooge, volumes 261-262, page 5. From the entry Xanadu
  • There is no doubt whatever that such souls were prophets, for the mission of prophethood is education, and these wondrous souls trained and educated mankind.1927, Barbara R. Sims, Japan Will Turn Ablaze!. From the entry prophethood
  • The newspapers were bursting with claims of wondrous finds; how the evidence from the dead queen’s tomb would forever change how the Ancient Egyptian religions were viewed.2016, George Mann, Ghosts of Karnak, Titan Books, →ISBN. From the entry Ancient Egyptian
  • Howevertheless, speaking for me, myself and I personally, we are all of us agreeing that it has been so brightingly coloursome and wondrous to have felt you again.2014, Brady Styles, Nightmare Begins with an Eye. From the entry colorsome
  • There are many kinds of natural beauty, from the expansiveness of a sky showing through a covering of multigreen forest, to the myriad forms of wondrous natural life.2000, Tom Paugh, The Sports Afield Treasury of Fly Fishing, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry multigreen

Meaning of wondrous

  1. adjective Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.
  2. adverb In a wonderful degree; remarkably; wondrously.

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Questions about wondrous in a sentence

How do you use wondrous in a sentence?
Wondrous is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “We all stared open-mouthed at the wondrous sight.”
What is a short sentence with wondrous?
“The most wondrous valley on earth!”
What does wondrous mean?
Wondrous means wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.

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