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.
• Just as astonishing was his claim of how close the vehicle was to becoming a reality.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
• Ross is an academic through and through and knows an astonishing amount about the history and functionality of zippers.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
• The stars seem to be aligned on the menu, too, an astonishing 75 dishes long.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The most astonishing story of the weekend, Ukraine, the collapse of the Russian forces in the sector in the east.
  — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
• Katie Ledecky, far out in front: one of the most astonishing sights in sports and, by now, one of the most familiar.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
• 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 more astonishing problems that Day spotted have stayed with her.
  — Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2024
• For a gear nerd with my own small hoard of guitars, the results have proven nothing short of astonishing.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2023
• Lou Lopez Sénéchal is shooting an astonishing 51.6% from deep this season to lead the Huskies.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2022
• The dry desert mountains were covered in an astonishing amount of grass.
  — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• 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
• That a team playing home games at Fenway Park is 19th in the majors in home runs is astonishing.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• The story of the first Jewish person to break out of Auschwitz and make his way to freedom is both compelling and astonishing.
  — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2022
• It’s astonishing to me to see how much influence his work has had.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022
• 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 Pacers' bench outscored the Raptors reserves by an astonishing count of 54-7.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2023
• The quality of the images that the AI can create is nothing short of astonishing.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Tom was astonishing as an actor to all of us, certainly to me.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• The plan, originally set to pay out over the course of a decade, turned out to be wildly lucrative for Musk and in astonishing time.
  — Matt McFarland, CNN, 14 Nov. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024