astonishes

Example Sentences

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Not particularly exhausted either, which always astonishes me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

"Even today, the story of my father and my mother, while giving me much pain, astonishes me still," Blouin said.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025

“It astonishes me that no American male singer sings with a full voice anymore. Where have all the tenors gone?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022

She has a gift for aphorism, the observation that astonishes.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2021

Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri