Sentence examples for utter consternation from inspiring English sources

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The question "Do you think you will play three debutants, Alastair?" would have been met with utter consternation six weeks ago, with those dark eyebrows heading heavenwards.

I can still recall how Diamond's slightly-wolfish grin was wiped off his face by utter consternation when, six months later, Gaitskell disclosed to the Labour conference his distaste for the Common Market and his love for the Commonwealth as part of "a thousand years of history".

Tex Goldschmidt and I were in the lower stands behind third base at the Stadium on Saturday, April 29th, when the Yankees lost a game to the ominous Senators on a play I have never seen duplicated — lost, as Drebinger put it, "to the utter consternation of a crowd of 36,000".

A Bangladeshi academic, Professor Farida Majid, would later write: "To the utter consternation of [US President] Nixon and [Secretary of State] Kissinger, George Harrison's 'Bangla Desh' hit the chart.

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Commanders voiced consternation.

"Captain America: utter, utter, utter tosh".

ONLOOKERS first stared in consternation.

Utter madness.

That caused bitter consternation.

Utter frustration.

Utter nonsense!

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