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Astounded
"Astounded" in a Sentence (14 examples)
I was astounded by the news that Mary won the first prize.
The news of his sudden death astounded me.
As I rowed out into the river, the clearness of the water astounded me.
Tom was astounded and fascinated by what he saw there.
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
I was astounded that she can speak 10 languages.
The atrociticies of the king astounded his people.
We were astounded.
I was astounded.
I'm debating whether I am perplexed, wondering, or astounded.
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[…] now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d, No wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth.
[…] wrapt in Suspense And Fear I stood, yet knew not what I fear’d; When straight to my appall’d, astounded Sense A Man of noble Port and Mien appear’d.
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Spectacles” in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W.J. Widdleton, Volume 2, p. 327, Had a thunderbolt fallen at my feet I could not have been more thoroughly astounded […]
The housewife was to take a sip of the real juice, watch the interviewer mix the Instant right before her astounded eyes, and then try the result, impressed, possibly, by its quickness and ease […]
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