Example Sentences

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I assure you, the next three quarters of this century will be astounding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

The clickthrough on the articles about it will be astounding.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

It needs but little consideration to show that when this principle becomes generally accepted and acted upon, the transformation in our social life will be astounding.

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)

In such a mass of material, some ninety volumes, it will be astounding indeed if some creditable work has not been passed inadvertently over.

From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge

There will be astounding new principles of nearness and comparative remoteness then.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander