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"Aghast" in a Sentence (17 examples)
I'm aghast at the lack of manners, common sense and so on and so forth on the net.
Her mother was aghast.
Tom's mother was aghast.
While the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
Mary was aghast.
"Full fast the rumour 'mong the people wrought; / cold horror chills us, and aghast we stand; / whom doth Apollo claim, whose death the Fates demand?"
Grim horror seized me, and aghast I stood.
Aghast I stood, tongue-tied, with stiffening hair.
Mute with fear, / perplext, aghast I stood, and upright rose my hair.
Cold horror froze each vein. / Aghast and shuddering my comrades stood; / down sank at once each heart, and terror chilled the blood. / No more with arms, for peace with vows and prayer / we sue, and pardon of these powers implore, / or be they goddesses or birds of air / obscene and dire.
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I was aghast when the incident unfolded in front of me.
Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue, Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie, Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: […]
And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
1985, Les Misérables, the song "Red and Black" I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last?
We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.
Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.
For months, Democrats have watched aghast as President Donald Trump has unleashed his head-spinning, all-of-government brand of disruption.
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