amazement
Example Sentences
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To her amazement, close to 200 people came with more than 180 cakes devoured.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
Mr. Cameron’s hyperrealistic high-frame-rate images, sometimes derided for producing a “soap-opera effect,” turn all acting into bad acting, digital amazement notwithstanding.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
The experts recall with amazement and appreciation the level of curiosity and celebrity Thurgood commanded in courtrooms across the Jim Crow South, charming even the bigoted lawyers and judges whose unjust rulings he challenged.
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2025
And to my amazement – one of the phage I collected from my toilet was able to kill this infection in the lab.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025
We watched in amazement as the 220-ton obelisk was silently lifted straight up off its pedestal.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing amazement
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 2
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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