Example Sentences

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The silky green ribbon of the Merced River meanders through the valley floor below, astonishingly lush during the spring snow melt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Yet we know astonishingly little about their conditions.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

"We live in the information age, yet we store our knowledge in media that are astonishingly short-lived," says Alexander Kirnbauer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

“Seurat and the Sea,” a scholarly and astonishingly beautiful show now at the Courtauld Gallery, and organized by Karen Serres, the museum’s senior curator of paintings, fills that critical lacuna.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Navy was neck and neck with Cal, and the two of them seemed to be running away with it, though Columbia, astonishingly, appeared to be in third place.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown