When near, he astonishes you, and, at a distance, he astonishes you still more.
He astonishes a reader and provokes him, he moves him and annoys him.
That which astonishes, astonishes once; but that which is admirable is more and more admired.
One is, nevertheless, forced to suppress this difficulty which astonishes the imagination more than it contradicts the principles of reasoning.
The reason is that he was very well informed about the anecdote which astonishes the present century, which will astonish posterity, and which is only too true.
Society, which the more I think of it astonishes me the more, is founded upon Cloth.
Nothing astonishes me so much as to find their manners so little changed by their intercourse with the Europeans; they seem to have learnt nothing of us but excess in drinking.
I must acknowledge to you, that this astonishes and displeases me.
What astonishes me is, that our purveyor Noah is unknown to all the nations of whom he is the stem, but I don't much mind it.
In which Bobby astonishes sundry Persons, and pays Part of his Note.
From this moment, having her constantly before his eyes, he associates her not only with his religious thoughts, but, what astonishes us more, with his very acts as a priest.
This poverty of resources astonishes me on the part of le bon Dieu; and He must at every moment set to work greasing the groove of events.
And then, what an enchanting light when your thoughts become visible, for your reason astonishes me, and you appear to me for instants to be a dream.
That you should have done so without my authority astonishesme much; that you should have done so at all, knowing what you do of my principles, astonishes me more.
So that the word "mysterious" means that which still astonishes us because it cannot be explained.
This avowal astonishes me, for, at the end of every seance, she seems rather to be listless and melancholy and seems to hold a sitting rather unwillingly than otherwise.
We are, however, obliged to swallow this difficulty, which more astonishes the imagination than contradicts the principles of reasoning.
What astonishes me most in the history of the manners of the ancient Romans is the conspiracy of the Roman women to cause to perish by poison, not only their husbands, but the principal citizens in general.
One thing astonishes me: it is that you did not come to me about it immediately.
Behold a sally that astonishes me, coming from you," cried the Dane.
Of a truth, this world of men-plants astonishes me more than the previous one, and I find it difficult to picture to myself the life and manners of these singular beings.
What astonishes me," interrupted Blazius, "is that such an accomplished young gentleman as your lordship seems to be should be willing to remain here in this isolated spot, where Fortune cannot reach you even if she would.
An Italian once said to me: "What astonishes us most in the emotional life of the Teutonic nations is their conception and cult of love.
Captain Harding," said Herbert, "what astonishes me is that the explosion has not produced more effect.
What astonishes me is that he hasn't spoken to us before, for now he wants nothing but speech!
A report is afloat, which troubles and plagues more than it astonishes me.
Touching the rumour which your clowns have spread abroad in order to calumniate you, it scarcely astonishes me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astonishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
