Sentence examples for rather astonished from inspiring English sources

"It's been 16 seasons," he says, sounding rather astonished.

Indeed, I was rather astonished that she didn't endorse it when she featured in Tuesday's Today programme.

Elsewhere, it feels as though Coe has been dropped into the 21st century and is rather astonished by what he has found, and assumes his readers will be, too.

"This diary would be sufficient to hang me five times a week," she wrote in 1944, adding in another entry: "I am rather astonished I am not … reported for my allied sympathies".

At the 12th hole, Ian Baker-Fincalledled Perry's birdie "unbelievable," and, said in a rather astonished voice, "He almost feels like it's his tournament!" (Well, he was leading at the time and had not wilted).

Having said good night to him at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, when, as secretary of the admissions committee in the grandiose midtown speadeasy called the White Horse Tavern, he commandeered a taxi to send you home, you were rather astonished to see him at three in the afternoon, his wild Irish eyes as dancing as ever, as he blandly supervised activities at about the 50-yard line.

Their bad news did not leak out for years including the news that Yuri Gagarin, after the first manned flight, bailed out in a field, staggering in his orange suit past an astonished peasant woman, rather than bringing his craft safely home.

His astonished goofiness is rather different to the acid snark of Mark Lamarr and Simon Amstell before him, but there's no shortage of whipping boys for potential lampooning: both Professor Green and the 1975's Matt Healy will no doubt have their mickey not so much taken as kidnapped in this opening episode.

I was quite astonished; one is always astonished when tears come to one's eyes unexpectedly.

Too astonished to react, standing still (or rather floating still) was the best thing I could have done.

The astonishing knife-thrower grabbed my astonished.