How to Use wonderment in a Sentence

wonderment

noun
  • He felt a sense of wonderment.
  • Chari felt a wide-eyed wonderment for the people around him, too.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The hall stills with the music, and an air of wonderment gathers.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Vinocour leaves us there, blinking in the wonderment of our own madness.
    — Rachel Louise Snyder, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The city is a wonderment to me, the way the sunlight hits the buildings, all the colors.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The president took the pianist’s two hands in his own, looking at them with wonderment and awe.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Creating a world that's filled with wonderment, legacy and soul.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 May 2021
  • But overall for Irwin, there's a sense of wonderment for all things Aussie.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But overall for Irwin, there's a sense of wonderment for all things Aussie.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2025
  • One lot expressed wonderment at my grasp of the English language.
    — Deepa Mehta, Variety, 16 May 2022
  • There can be beauty and wonderment in not knowing what’s happening next.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
  • The feebleness of the batters take me back to an era of dominance and wonderment.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2018
  • No longer do world-class triathletes look in wonderment at the curly-haired youngster who always seems to be among leaders at top triathlons.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 28 May 2020
  • In the streaming age, such instances were liable to incite wonderment from other art-rock bands.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Her innate connection to the natural world lends to a sense of wonderment.
    — Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Millions will continue to ascend those steps, and some will find wonderment and insight.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 May 2022
  • If Chiles was the emcee, Harris was the star, her 10 a source of wonderment.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Then there are those filmmakers who bring the real, wider world to us, in all its wonderment and sense of revelation.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • Beauty is timeless and its own source of wonderment and joy; so creating a building of beauty was a strong desire.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • One aspect that probably goes through your head is the wonderment of what is going through the noggin of the other driver.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • As a 5-year-old, Finley viewed the pending arrival of Brooke with child-like wonderment.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Life can be so monotonous and there are so few things that inspire a sense of genuine wonderment and amazement about life and being alive.
    — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In a world that has been nothing but upside down and inside out since the start of March last year, the mundane can border on wonderment.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Her favorite tipu grows in Elysian Park and in midsummer rains down a wonderment of yellow flowers.
    — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Brady's longevity has been a source of wonderment for years, and he's sought to capitalize on it with books about health, diet and exercise.
    — NBC News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The Hanukkah celebration grew out of their excitement about this wonderment.
    — Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The performances are superlative, and, despite the grimness of the setting, the film is awash with the wonderment of childhood.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the new dinos have red feathers, a cute touch, but there's little of the wonderment of the first film, barring an image of a sad bronto at a logging site.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022
  • Chazelle begins with a visual screech and ends with a man alone at the movies in a 1952 epilogue, lost in bittersweet wonderment.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The stunning beauty and spiritual life of the architecture and glass suddenly came to life and left me in a state of wonderment.
    — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 17 Apr. 2019

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