astonished

I’ve been lucky enough to taste hoshigaki in Japan, and as a new resident of Los Angeles, I am still astonished by the abundant persimmons growing freely in people’s backyards.

Microbial ecologists were astonished to find cells inside basalt far under the ocean floor that have survived for perhaps more than 100 million years.

It’s worth putting this in context because it’s as astonishing a stat as any women’s basketball player has put up in recent memory.

He was astonished, for the door was locked, yet he felt relieved rather than alarmed.

I stopped in to see her the other day, and I was astonished at the change which had taken place in a short time.

I stood looking at them, bewildered and astonished by Mademoiselle's loyalty.

He took off his hat, but was so astonished he could scarcely utter a greeting.

Fritz had recovered nerve enough to explain to the astonished station master that the King had changed his plans.

Are you not astonished at the wall being completed so quickly?

I was too astonished to speak and stood gazing upon the handsome face of a young man in a plumed hat and lace-frilled doublet.