astonishes

Example Sentences

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Not particularly exhausted either, which always astonishes me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

What always astonishes me about your letters is their length My God, their length!

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

"Even today, the story of my father and my mother, while giving me much pain, astonishes me still," Blouin said.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025

“I’d like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers because it astonishes me that no one has done them as I see them.”

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri