Example Sentences

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Few places in the country are more expensive to buy a home than California, yet even here recent surges in home values have been astounding.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2021

The gains in quality of the best facial recognition technology in recent years have been astounding.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2020

His persuasive powers must have been astounding: Ireland fully converted to Christianity within 200 years and was the only country in Europe to Christianize peacefully.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2013

He was so certain he was going to be dead that it must have been astounding to discover he wasn't.

From The Story of a Pioneer by Shaw, Anna Howard

Which would have been astounding, Uncle Charlie being jocular and not given to slamming doors, had it not to do with that one of the many worlds in the firmament of the Sundays, St. Simeon's.

From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by Martin, George Madden