consternation
IPA: kɑnstɝnˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
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Examples of "consternation" in Sentences
- The plan ended with consternation.
- It caused quite a deal of consternation in the past.
- The article caused consternation in the Brazilian press.
- The 'Expositor' spread consternation throughout the city.
- The announcement caused the most widespread consternation.
- I don't think it is worth the effort and the consternation.
- It's not as strong as the level of consternation would imply.
- The focus of the text is consternation over an adulterous wife.
- The Church will be eclipsed, the world will be in consternation.
- ( "And I ..." she thought in consternation, "am responsible for this!")
- The result can be embarrassment and consternation for unsuspecting visitors.
- I should imagine that the word consternation would suitably describe their reaction.
- Sarah Spencer sprang out of her doze in consternation, and gazed blankly at the shrieking child.
- The population were in consternation at the horrors they witnessed; death everywhere and in a horrible form.
- He stares after Mickey in consternation as the man chases after Jack and Martha wondering just how this changes things.
- (Maggie laughs out loud, at which point Paula and Louise instantly stare at her in consternation with serious expressions.)
- My brothers looked at one another in consternation, then that wily Tuscan friar, Fra Agostino da Montalcino, stepped forward, an unpleasant smile on his face.
- “O our master,” they exclaimed in consternation, “our understanding is confused, for we see him sitting on a golden mountain, which is in the midst of a sea of blood, surrounded by a copper wall.”
- "What – what – what!" exclaimed Old Hurricane, gazing in consternation from the young prisoner to the accuser; "what – what! my newsboy, my saucy little prince of patches, a girl in boy's clothes?"
- More than forty years ago, Mr.T. A. Reid of the University of Toronto, and an authority on the history of the City, referred to the real estate boom at the beginning of the century, and quoted specifically the young man who came home and reported in consternation the exorbitant price for land at the corner of King and Yonge, which had just risen to $4.00 per square foot.
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