Sentence examples for astounded to read from inspiring English sources

I was astounded to read that Foreign Service officers are now refusing assignments because of "security and lifestyle concerns" (front page, July 22).

On Monday I was astounded to read an article by Brian Logan in this very paper in which he wrote, and I quote, that "racists have a point".

Among those, some were astounded to read about their background in their Stasi secret service files, which were made public after the reunification of Germany in 1990.

I was astounded to read: "Instead of rejecting its Soviet history, Lithuania is embracing it, in a kind of kitschy salute to its Leninist roots".

David Parker Meltham, West Yorkshire  I was astounded to read your editorial (30 June), in which you refer to John Armitt, Mike Wright, Michael Lyons and Richard Leese as "having done something or other a long way from Westminster".

A few years back, Mr. Holbrook was astounded to read that "Huckleberry Finn," a book he believed had been written largely to condemn racism, was itself being considered racist.

But after that initial poem, Mr. Dunn announced that from then on he was going to read only love poems: "I am astounded/ by the various kisses we're capable of," he read, from his poem "Each From Different Heights".

He was always smart, though – so smart his parents would ask little Martin to read aloud from Uncle Tom's Cabin to astounded relatives as a party trick.

He was always smart, though so smart his parents would ask little Martin to read aloud from Uncle Tom's Cabin to astounded relatives as a party trick.

"I was presented with a series of revelations, let us say, which pretty much left me astounded to be honest.

"I'm absolutely astounded to see what's happened this week," Pawlett told the Official Charts Company.