How to Use astonishing in a Sentence

astonishing

adjective

• The truck can hold an astonishing amount of stuff.
• He showed an astonishing lack of concern for others.
• She gave an astonishing performance in her first film.
• The stars seem to be aligned on the menu, too, an astonishing 75 dishes long.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• To non-coders, the fact that A.I.s can produce code might seem astonishing.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Flightline had put on 100 pounds in the five months since the end of his brief but astonishing racing career.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The changes this abode has seen on the inside in the years since, however, are truly astonishing.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
• Some of the land in the valley is no longer being farmed, but the area still harbors an astonishing density of crops.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• With its astonishing view of the Brooklyn Bridge, the apartment looks like a real-estate ad.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• In plain English, Nvidia’s astonishing growth rate over the past year is far too high to continue for long.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• For some reason, in moments that call for it, women tend to show an astonishing amount of courage.
  — ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
• But perhaps the most astonishing find was a seven-foot-long mammoth tusk that had been preserved since the Ice Age.
  — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2024
• The breadth of the killings Johnson and his gang were accused of committing was astonishing, Lipsky said.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• Tennis legends from across the world have come to the Arthur Ashe Stadium courts and given us some of the most astonishing moments in the history of the sport.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
• But more astonishing was that many moderate Democrats joined the charade and voted to overturn the D.C. law too.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2023
• The game’s most astonishing achievement comes after the credits roll.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Most of the rooms have terraces opening onto those astonishing views, and there are plenty of them in the common spaces as well.
  — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The winter storms produced astonishing amounts of snow.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• Koontz is warm, genial and prone to astonishing candor.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• But in either scenario, Grande said, the results have been astonishing.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 8 May 2023
• The fact that at least the last digits of this number can be specified precisely is even more astonishing.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
• Last summer in particular set off alarm bells when the water level in Lake Mead dropped an astonishing 20 feet over the course of four months.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• Add on the no-cost optional Weissach pack, and that number drops to an astonishing 2.1 seconds.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
• After that, South Carolina paced the game, a fitting end to the team’s astonishing perfect season, 38-0.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
• The streets of the capital Libreville echoed with gunfire as the army announced the end of an astonishing five decades of Bongo family rule.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• First, an at-cost deal for components on this scale is astonishing, but if anyone can, Apple can.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• But the star of the group was her former Hot Band-mate Steve Fishell, whose soulful solos on dobro and pedal steel guitar were seldom short of astonishing.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
• The sheer scope of the amount of music that had to be created for this pile of possibilities for the player to navigate is astonishing.
  — Sonya Alexander, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2023
• The second number was smaller and less precise but no less astonishing.
  — Ben Cohen, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
• Users are revealing an astonishing amount of dirt that's been lurking on their walls by simply mopping them clean.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024