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How to use the word astonishing in a Sentence?

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It's astonishing that God's sunsets are often better than his sunrises. Maybe therein lies the truth of life. Age spells humility. Humility wins over ego always..and maybe that will make our sunsets so much better than our sunrises. Nature is so beautifully balanced..and we are part of nature. Just a small part of the whole..

Rooma Mehra

added by Searcher19
8 months ago

It's astonishing that God's sunsets are often better than his sunrises. Maybe therein lies the truth of life. Age spells humility. Humility wins over ego always..and maybe that will make our sunsets so much better than our sunrises. Nature is so beautifully balanced..and we are part of nature. Just a small part of the whole..

Rooma Mehra

added by Searcher19
8 months ago

It’s astonishing that the prosecutor would comment.

Mark Pieth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

Paul Davies

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

I didn’t have access to the document and according to the press reports, it was a decree for a coup d’état that emphasizes what we saw on January 8 (the day of the riots), which wasn’t an isolated case. It was an element of a chain, a link in a coup chain in Brazil that had preparatory and astonishing acts, such as a decree of military intervention in the Electoral Court, which is unconstitutional.

Flavio Dino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The astonishing finding is that there’s a backup copy of the software in the body that you can reset, we’re showing why that software gets corrupted and how we can reboot the system by tapping into a reset switch that restores the cell’s ability to read the genome correctly again, as if it was young.

David Sinclair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s astonishing to see a snowy owl in Southern California.

Chris Spurgeon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What’s astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

Merlin Sheldrake

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

To see an Indian woman in a feature film as the main character was astonishing at that time.

Urmila Seshagiri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve talked to the defenders of Mariupol today. I’m in constant contact with them. Their determination, heroism and firmness are astonishing, if only those who have been thinking for 31 days on how to hand over dozens of jets and tanks had 1% of their courage.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was in many ways astonishing, it would have been so easy to say' Manchin's trying to blow this up, we're not going to let this bait and switch go through.'.

Norman Ornstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was surprised by the parallel between Diana and Meghan, especially in those first two months inside the royal family, meghan said she felt low and isolated – Diana felt the same. For Diana, she felt [the palace] was a place of cold energy – a far cry from what felt on the outside. It was astonishing to me.

Andrew Morton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

Lives are at stake as dangerous drugs like fentanyl pour into our communities at an astonishing rate, and we must act now to crack down on this proliferation of this deadly drug, from Tarrant County to Lubbock County, fentanyl is wreaking havoc in our communities and it is essential for parents, family members, schools, and more to get fully engaged to prevent future fentanyl deaths.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that it is a rather astonishing extension of wokeness in now that the door seems to be opening that someone’s political viewpoint reflects on their fitness as a parent.

Michael Stutman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That is astonishing. Absolutely astonishing. This school needs to be shut down, if we have half the kids in the school that are below a 0.13. Not a 1.3, people. A 0.13, that school needs to be shut down. It’s not doing its job.

Mitchell IV andBryan Nehman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The National Film Registry is an important record of American history, culture and creativity, captured through one of the great American art forms, our cinematic experience, with the inclusion of diverse filmmakers, we are not trying to set records but rather to set The National Film Registry straight by spotlighting the astonishing contributions women and people of color have made to American cinema, despite facing often-overwhelming hurdles.

Carla Hayden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That story that he told about what happened at West Point was some of the greatest political theater Ive ever witnessed in my life, it was absolutely astonishing.

Charles Hurt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is somewhat astonishing that it has happened right now in a middle of a pandemic [ when ] the government and civil service are massively stretched.

David Hudson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's astonishing, the mode of implementation of the Covid-19 response has killed people.

Asia Russell of Health

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If the Chinese government followed through with countermeasures, the impact on the global industry would be astonishing, its not only going to be one company, Huawei, that could be destroyed.

Eric Xu

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It is really quite astonishing to me, i woke up this morning to 20 voicemails and 56 emails. And I've got people in Connecticut, Long Island, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Arizona that want to volunteer.

Jayde Powell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's really astonishing to me how in the last five months, all of a sudden, she goes to an event with John Wick and everybody goes insane, like,' It's John Wick new girlfriend,' because she had gone to a lot of events with John Wick, it's just suddenly surfaced that John Wick's been dating her for several years.

Jennifer Tilly

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's quite unusual for the Chancellor's office to try and stop something in the last minute, it would be astonishing if they let themselves be reined back by an American company.

Jens Zimmermann

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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