Use astonish in a sentence
Short sentences using astonish
- It would astonish the public. [4]
- You astonish me. [9]
More example sentences with the word astonish in them
- If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
- It would astonish you to know the extent of the evil of "absenteeism. [7]
- I don't believe you mean to try to astonish us when you come back to spend your summers here. [6]
- I think it would astonish even the wise ones. [4]
- While this letter with its amazing contents is on its way to astonish Joe Goodman, we will consider one of quite a different, but equally characteristic sort. [5]
- By telling the truth he could astonish his father; his father would tell the neighbours; the neighbours would spread it; it would travel to all firesides; in the end it would make him President, and not only that, but First President. [5]
- Why, you looked, then, as if it wouldn't astonish you if you did tumble into an earldom. [5]
- And as for the bushels of sketches and studies which Millet shovelled out during the six weeks that we were on the road, well, it would astonish you to know the figure we sell them at nowadays--that is, when we consent to let one go! [5]
- It was expected that the question would astonish Ed, and it did. [5]
- The reason is that Spain sends her heaviest ships of war and her loudest guns to astonish these Muslims, while America and other nations send only a little contemptible tub of a gunboat occasionally. [5]
- She expected to sting her, and she did astonish and she did grieve her, for the breaking-up of her world could not do otherwise; but it was for her mother and not for herself that Evelyn showed emotion. [4]
- That you should still be of such good cheer would please or else astonish me if I were still capable of those sentiments. [10]
- Yes, Caracalla had sinned greatly, and his conviction that Alexander's soul lived in him and Roxana's in her was foolish enough; but the marvelous likeness to her of the portrait on the gem would astonish any one. [10]
- We carried that secret around without any trouble, but the other one, the big one, the splendid one, burned the very vitals of us, it was so hot to get out and we so hot to let it out and astonish people with it. [5]
- Mrs. Francis Armour received Lady Haldwell with a quiet stateliness, which, if it did not astonish her, gave her sufficient warning that matters were not, in this little comedy, to be all her own way. [11]
- Perhaps there is no place on the coast that would more astonish the foreigner than Ocean Grove, and if he should describe it faithfully he would be unpopular with its inhabitants. [4]
- Some occasion (so Madame Bouvet had told us) had brought a sprinkling of fashion to town that day, and it was a fashion to astonish me. [9]
- We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. [5]
- The public is interested in what we are doing in the Southwest, and if you, or some other bright fellow who has got eyes in his head, will go down there, he will see something that will astonish him. [4]
- The Virginian expanded in Kentucky is not the same man he was at home, and the New England Yankee let loose in the West takes on proportions that would astonish his grandfather. [4]
- Bother it all, I wanted to astonish you with a chapter or two from Orion's latest book--not the seventeen which he has begun in the last four months, but the one which he began last week. [5]
- Tom's excitement enabled him to keep awake until a pretty late hour, and he had good hopes of hearing Huck's "maow," and of having his treasure to astonish Becky and the picnickers with, next day; but he was disappointed. [5]
- She never uses high tints and strontian lights to astonish lookers-on. [6]
- Switzerland may not have so much population to the square mile as some countries; but she has a population to some of her square miles that would astonish some parts of the earth's surface elsewhere. [4]
- Your horticultural inquiries have been of a nature to astonish the vegetable world, if it listened, and were a constant inspiration to research. [4]
- If I should find this well dry and no explanation of it, I could astonish these people most nobly by having a person of no especial value drop a dynamite bomb into it. [5]
- He has never attended any but a parish school, and still has learning to astonish Mr. Walpole, learning which he got under vast difficulties. [9]
- It did not astonish Mizraim that Nahoum had kept all this secret. [11]
- I have got a thing here to astonish you. [5]
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