Synonym: amazing, astounding, staggering, stupefying. Similar words: astonish, astonished, astonishment, fishing, admonish, neoplatonism, burst out laughing, living thing. Meaning: [-ʃɪŋ] adj. 1. surprising greatly 2. so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm.
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121. The astonishing work was mentioned here in the 15 December issue.
122. When looking at Mozart's life, the parallels with "Hamlet" are astonishing.
123. Perhaps the most astonishing finding was that the effects seemed to endure after the training stopped.
124. It's just a toy, but it's astonishing all the same.
125. I could hear his hand moving over the stubble of his beard. fourteen White Sands was astonishing.
126. The 15 all present and correct had between them an astonishing 533 years' service.
127. This astonishing discovery of polar ice on Mercury makes it clear that impacts play a major role on all the terrestrial planets.
128. Finally, I would say that in a show of sixty-four artists it is astonishing that there are only five women.
129. The Wasp Factory, his astonishing debut, was a kind of perverted pastoral.
130. An apparently astonishing claim, and a puerile one too, but true none the less.
131. The average inflation rate under the last Labour Government was no less than the astonishing figure of 15 percent.
132. The astonishing diversity of life, with species adapted for every conceivable habitat.
133. An astonishing 97 percent of their loans are repaid on time.
134. If one were to count heads, particularly among younger economists,[www.Sentencedict.com] Keynesian ideas were being eclipsed at quite an astonishing speed.
135. Nothing, however, was more astonishing than the speed with which all of it was built.
136. To demonstrate this astonishing finding, she showed me a graph she and Swetnarn had prepared.
137. Where did all of this astonishing new money come from?
138. A year ago the magazine had a circulation of 150,000, but since then that figure has shot up to an astonishing 2 million.
139. The mind has an astonishing aptitude for skating off at tangents.
140. Even more astonishing, the number of 10-meter bodies in Earth-crossing orbits is roughly a hundred million!
141. They contained fresh and astonishing details of underground movements and midnight rendezvous.
142. Even when scoring points at an astonishing pace, no opponent has been knocked out of a game.
143. It was first seen publicly in the sixth Impressionist Exhibition in 1881, when its astonishing realism shocked many contemporary critics.
144. The most astonishing thing about this object is its antiquity.
145. Even in old age, his powers of recall were astonishing.
146. In fact, as the great challenge of the conference drew nearer, an astonishing change seemed to come over my father.
147. Yet nowhere do these prefaces warn us that certain editors have taken the most astonishing liberties with the music.
148. Then it erupted in a shower of cold, bright stars, brilliant with a sharp, astonishing, searing pain.
149. The most astonishing item, however, is a piece of peasant work.
150. It's astonishing, he's learned Latin in three hours!
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