amazement
IPA: ʌmˈeɪzmʌnt
noun
- (uncountable) The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
- (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
- (countable, dated) Something which amazes.
- (obsolete) Madness, frenzy.
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Examples of "amazement" in Sentences
- AQ is watching in amazement as the administration refuses to interrogate them.
- Why you must wonder in amazement at all US idiots who get on airplanes and fly to the same places several times a year.
- But if a piece of music has demonstrated its potential to be an amazing experience, I'm less concerned with how often that amazement is likely to happen.
- At the exact moment that the bomb dropped the two were sitting on a hilltop of verdant grass, gazing out in amazement at the splendor that nature had created.
- They will gasp in amazement as the on duty DMI swings passed from the big wheel chanting the policing pledge in a multitude of languages, using where required CINTRA to assist those unable or unwilling to understand the local dialect.
- The use of color-coded symbols beside each link would help casual surfers avoid anything which is too harsh for their tastes, whilst allowing those of us with dark sensibilities to continue looking in amazement at the absolute strangeness which exists around the internet.
- Then, like every morning, I looked out my window – this time in amazement: With all the talk of there being a water shortage here in Mexico City I look out my window to see a city crew cleaning the sidewalks of the park across the street, Alameda Santa Maria la Ribera, not with brooms but WATER!
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