Sentence examples for astonishment not from inspiring English sources

(There were only two such nominations in the category. More astonishment, not to mention grief over glories past).

To widespread astonishment, not least his own, he captured the seat from the Conservatives, and at age 23 he entered the House of Commons as its youngest member.

Magicians are also inventors, but spur astonishment not at how something is done -- though that is always the question asked -- but that it is done at all.

Friends of both Mr. Schwarzenegger and Ms. Shriver expressed astonishment not only at his actions, but also that he had eluded detection by the public and his family over the course of his very public life.

When small towns like this one suffer a tragedy so baffling, so awful that the whole country notices, the usual response is astonishment – "Not here, not in our community!" Here, it's the reverse.

That there is a taxidermy championship at all is something of an astonishment, not only to the people in the world who have no use for a Dan-D-Noser and Soft Touch Duck Degreaser but also to taxidermists themselves... Taxidermy has been around since the eighteenth century, but it was first brought into popular regard by the Victorians.

Although the faculty of astonishment is not highly developed in the mouse, he is constantly astonished by the cat's unremitting enmity.

As his Democratic counterpart, Representative Nita M. Lowey, looked on with evident astonishment, Mr. Davis (not to be confused with the Democratic governor of the same name) recalled just how beatable Mr. Davis (not to be confused with the Republican congressman of the same name) had once seemed.

This caused some astonishment, if not confusion.

This news was greeted with some astonishment and not a little annoyance by Mackenzie.

But my lack of astonishment will not make me sleep better at night.