astonishing
adjective
as·ton·ish·ing
ə-ˈstä-ni-shiŋ 
: causing a feeling of great surprise or wonder : surprising
an astonishing discovery
Examples of astonishing in a Sentence
He showed an astonishing lack of concern for others.
The truck can hold an astonishing amount of stuff.
She gave an astonishing performance in her first film.
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MicroStrategy remains the leader among corporate crypto treasuries, holding over 638,000 bitcoins valued at an astonishing $71 billion.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The astonishing Laanstra-Corn does not play Hedvig purely as an innocent; there’s something as dangerous and emotionally labile in her shocked face as there is in Gregers’s explosive outbursts.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Anderson’s willingness to touch such a raw nerve is astonishing.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
While sampling ancient, dry riverbed rocks on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover found something astonishing.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
The astonishing Laanstra-Corn does not play Hedvig purely as an innocent; there’s something as dangerous and emotionally labile in her shocked face as there is in Gregers’s explosive outbursts.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Anderson’s willingness to touch such a raw nerve is astonishing.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
While sampling ancient, dry riverbed rocks on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover found something astonishing.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for astonishing
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“Astonishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astonishing. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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