Sentence examples for astonishing height from inspiring English sources

Within 10 minutes, he had reached the astonishing height of 10,000 feet.

In their audacious pursuit of astonishing height -- to glorify a god, immortalize a builder, mark a spot or lure a tenant -- architects have created pyramids, domes, minarets, campaniles, spires and skyscrapers.

Later a Willem de Kooning, "Montauk III," climbed to astonishing heights.

THE number of would-be students seeking a university place has reached astonishing heights.

And some wealthy investors can already invest in such companies through private secondary markets, where they have pushed valuations to astonishing heights.

The shareholders at 333 East 68th have allowed ivy to grow to astonishing heights, certainly more than a hundred feet, over their brick and limestone facade.

Severe works by famous masters that might not have had an easy ride in earlier times of artistic abundance soared to astonishing heights.

Most of them are more dedicated to tax cuts than ever, especially at a time when the federal surplus appears to be growing to astonishing heights.

The design – the play is set in middle-class America – was hyperrealistic, as if the space were sculpted, and within it people could attain astonishing heights of perception and accusation.

And while that has had an impact on real estate values in other Brooklyn neighborhoods, the effect could hardly be more extreme than it is in Gravesend, where house prices have risen to astonishing heights.

"My nightmare is I'm competing and that always something goes wrong," says the Alsace-born Jacquy Pfeiffer, a founder of the French Pastry School in Chicago, who has been training like an Olympian for the right to spin, blow and pull sugar to astonishing heights at this three-day contest in Lyons, held every four years.