How to Use astonishing in a Sentence

astonishing

adjective
  • The truck can hold an astonishing amount of stuff.
  • He showed an astonishing lack of concern for others.
  • She gave an astonishing performance in her first film.
  • The rivers rise and boil with astonishing speed.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • That’s an astonishing thing to say out loud.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • New trends come onto — and fall off of — the scene at astonishing speed.
    — Angelina Ruiz, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The lightning speed in which these events took place is astonishing.
    — Ghassan E. El-Eid, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Symbols and metaphors are the most astonishing of these scars.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The Knicks are on an astonishing run.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
  • The footage of her in action on the court looks more astonishing than ever.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Some of these works of art are astonishing and nobody made those works of art hoping to get rich.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
  • And yet, the price of that life-saving drug keeps rising at an astonishing rate.
    — Peter Ubel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The steep climb down to the sand is worth it for the prime stretch of coast and astonishing views of the jagged shoreline.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The age at which talent breaks through in the women’s game is astonishing.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But those facts barely scratch the surface of what an astonishing event this was.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • And about the astonishing speed of their exit.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There isn’t a huge amount of that, but the fact that the robots are fighting at all is astonishing.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • The dry desert mountains were covered in an astonishing amount of grass.
    — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • For refugee aid groups that have worked in the city for years, the differences have been astonishing.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • It’s made from the grape savagnin, and each vintage is aged for an astonishing six years in an oak cask.
    — Eleanor Aldridge, AFAR Media, 31 July 2025
  • The stars seem to be aligned on the menu, too, an astonishing 75 dishes long.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The gains have been astonishing.
    — Fred Imbert,nick Wells, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The through line is astonishing.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The through line is astonishing.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • These crashes were just one part of an astonishing racket.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • These projects depend on an astonishing amount of new power.
    — Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The tunnels are just an astonishing breadth.
    — Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Fear is now is season 6 and has gone through a pretty astonishing amount of ups and downs at this point.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Not that the platform seems to be an astonishing source of income for most authors.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 July 2025
  • Which for a first year is pretty astonishing for any type of a festival.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025

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