Example Sentences

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They had astonished the age with their sagacity and fortitude; they had enacted for all posterity the great American epic of exploration.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a knock-down fight which had astonished nobody so much as the open-mouthed voters of Oregon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Westland had astonished the gallery by wearing a grey felt hat through all his matches and by his frightened demeanor when putting.

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A newcomer, it had astonished its own leaders by its show of middle-class strength.

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Ernest’s condition had astonished the surgeons in the operating room.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik