How to Use wonderment in a Sentence
wonderment
noun- He felt a sense of wonderment.
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The look on his face was a pure smile and pure wonderment.
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2022 -
The city is a wonderment to me, the way the sunlight hits the buildings, all the colors.
— New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022 -
The hall stills with the music, and an air of wonderment gathers.
— Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023 -
If Chiles was the emcee, Harris was the star, her 10 a source of wonderment.
— Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023 -
Chari felt a wide-eyed wonderment for the people around him, too.
— Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018 -
Vinocour leaves us there, blinking in the wonderment of our own madness.
— Rachel Louise Snyder, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020 -
Rather, the images build and scatter, with a sidelong glance, a wonderment, the capture of a felt moment.
— Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019 -
As a 5-year-old, Finley viewed the pending arrival of Brooke with child-like wonderment.
— Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023 -
The president took the pianist’s two hands in his own, looking at them with wonderment and awe.
— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2018 -
The feebleness of the batters take me back to an era of dominance and wonderment.
— John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2018 -
The girl, looking up in wonderment, head spinning, thinks: Rice!
— Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017 -
In a world that has been nothing but upside down and inside out since the start of March last year, the mundane can border on wonderment.
— Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021 -
Chazelle begins with a visual screech and ends with a man alone at the movies in a 1952 epilogue, lost in bittersweet wonderment.
— Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022 -
One lot expressed wonderment at my grasp of the English language.
— Deepa Mehta, Variety, 16 May 2022 -
Here, too, bring your sense of adventure and wonderment.
— BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021 -
No longer do world-class triathletes look in wonderment at the curly-haired youngster who always seems to be among leaders at top triathlons.
— Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 28 May 2020 -
And in asking why, this isn’t an expression of wonderment that the U.S. didn’t fully disarm.
— John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 -
Some of the new dinos have red feathers, a cute touch, but there's little of the wonderment of the first film, barring an image of a sad bronto at a logging site.
— Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022 -
One aspect that probably goes through your head is the wonderment of what is going through the noggin of the other driver.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2021 -
The 49ers’ 7-0 season has been all about surprise and wonderment, joy and a growing team camaraderie.
— Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2019 -
Her innate connection to the natural world lends to a sense of wonderment.
— Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024 -
Then there are those filmmakers who bring the real, wider world to us, in all its wonderment and sense of revelation.
— Washington Post, 31 July 2021 -
Rivera put her hand over her heart and shook her head in wonderment as President Barack Obama presented the medal.
— Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024 -
Her favorite tipu grows in Elysian Park and in midsummer rains down a wonderment of yellow flowers.
— Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023 -
But that wonderment has returned with Ohtani, McNamee said.
— NBC News, 8 Apr. 2018 -
His scholarship and wonderment speaks for all cinephiles.
— Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2020 -
Creating a world that's filled with wonderment, legacy and soul.
— Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 May 2021 -
There can be beauty and wonderment in not knowing what’s happening next.
— Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024 -
The wonderment in Habba’s voice suggested the loquacious ex-president had just turned water to wine right there on the streets of Manhattan.
— Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
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