astonished
adjective
as·ton·ished
ə-ˈstä-nisht 
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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An astonished Lara asks them to move to the crew mess, which makes Wihan huff and puff in irritation.
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Little Caesars In this ad for Little Caesars’ Crazy Puffs, actor Eugene Levy is seemingly so astonished after taking a bite that his eyebrows fly off his face and flutter away, terrorizing everyone in their path.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2025
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.
—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
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Little Caesars In this ad for Little Caesars’ Crazy Puffs, actor Eugene Levy is seemingly so astonished after taking a bite that his eyebrows fly off his face and flutter away, terrorizing everyone in their path.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2025
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.
—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
See All Example Sentences for astonished
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“Astonished.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astonished. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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