astonish

Example Sentences

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Investment in artificial intelligence continues to astonish amid a technological arms race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

Maggie Smith never failed to illuminate and astonish.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

For a half-century, the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm made work that could astonish viewers.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Such arguments astonish educators who have found ways to accelerate children successfully.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2022

There was nothing in all this either to astonish or interest, and it caught Emma’s attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen