Sentence examples for my consternation from inspiring English sources

As I labored away, to my consternation, a police car stopped next to me.

My consternation with these interlopers rests more in their travel sense than their parking needs.

To my consternation (and their huge credit), they agreed immediately – and here are the results.

Much to my consternation, perhaps the demise of Catholic schools occurs as well for the same reason.

One of the buddies nearly choked to death on a combination of my consternation, his laughter and a half-swallowed chunk of soul food.

"To my consternation, many people just concentrated on the word apartheid" and ignored everything else, Mr. Carter said in an interview.

Sonic died, I hit my hand on my thigh in consternation (not constipation), and the phone was dropped, bounced between my legs and landed partly submerged in a stool.

Recently, one of my star Chinese graduate students announced to my surprise and consternation that he would return to China after completing his training.

OK, so it is to my never-ending consternation that whenever you change a diaper around family and friends (to my changing of 20 diapers), you are praised for how hands-on you are.

To some degree, my mother's consternation was justified.

"There was I with my little cardboard suitcase, age 8. 'Ich geh mit Sasha' ('I go with Sasha'), I said, to my mother's consternation".