(a & p. p.) Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, across the Irish sea, bankers in the City were today watching nervously, aghast even, that the Irish government could take such an extraordinary step.
(2) GCHQ was aghast that a 29-year-old who was not even employed by the US government had access to the files, Rusbridger says.
(3) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(4) Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat president, said he was aghast at the tweets.
(5) And it is socially divisive as well.” He can’t understand May’s assertion that grammars can be introduced in a way that lifts up all schools, and is aghast at her claim that the plans will not mean a return to a “binary system”.
(6) Amid a tide of publicity, hopes that she might win took hold among liberal commentators aghast at the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan .
(7) Frank Gardner said the monarch personally told him she was aghast that Abu Hamza could not be arrested during the period when he regularly aired vehemently anti-British views as imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London.
(8) Then there was the shot curled sumptuously on to the angle of post and bar as half-time approached that left Mourinho slumped over the wall in his dug-out, aghast that one of his players could be so bereft of fortune.
(9) Paterson then looked aghast as two penalty claims, against Ben Haim and Aouate, were turned down.
(10) H ow do you like us now?” ran the headline on the Tico Times, the English language newspaper based in Costa Rica, after the little Central American nation with a population of just 4.5m stunned Italy with a 1-0 victory to qualify for the knockout stages, eliminate England and leave observers aghast.
(11) She went with her mother, who was aghast when she understood why they had been called in.
(12) It also showed "a huge proportion of our pensions disappear in fees – with charges swallowing up to 40% of the value of the pension (over the pension's lifetime) and that the typical saver was aghast when they discovered what an apparently modest charges of 1.5% might actually mean to the eventual pay-out many years later."
(13) Sacher-Masoch was very much alive, and aghast to discover how his name had been used.
(14) Journalists trawling through the recent jobs, contacts and pronouncements of LSE academics, including directors Lord Giddens and Sir Howard Davies – who has now resigned – have been aghast.
(15) Green groups are aghast that a flagship policy called for in opposition by both Lib Dems and Tories, and which they last year tried to force on the Labour government, will now not be implemented in the coalition's first energy bill to be published this year.
(16) But the Tory leadership was aghast at Fabricant's proposal for a pact with Ukip.
(17) When the FA said on Monday that it was unable to charge Scudamore with bringing the game into disrepute because it was a private matter, many within the organisation were aghast that it had not also condemned the views expressed in the emails.
(18) Five minutes after the resumption, the manager’s feelings were plain for everyone to see: he, like Newcastle’s players and fans, was aghast when Cissé shanked the ball wide from five yards after John Ruddy spilled a long shot by Townsend.
(19) A senior Ukip source said the party was “absolutely aghast” at what is alleged to have happened, with just 48 days to go until the general election.
(20) Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, said on Today that he was aghast at the appointment and took it as an indication that Corbyn was appointing hard-left allies instead of building a broad-based shadow cabinet.
Astounding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Astound
(a.) Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its impact has been astounding: from the highs and lows of the dotcom bubble, to the arrival of internet in the home, in offices and even on the move.
(2) English National Opera's new production next month will be the first time it has been staged in London – astounding given the popularity of Adams, and the fact that some regard it as his most impressive achievement.
(3) 60 min: Marchisio is astounded to see the ref flourish the red card ... for a studs-up challenge on Gimenez.
(4) Sampson became the discreet, muttering centre of a web, connected by telephone and letter, telegram and fax, to an astounding cast of world leaders and commentarians, film stars and novelists.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump gleefully responds to new FBI probe into Clinton emails “I think the best people in the media have come to see that rationalising hate without considering the consequences of giving him that much attention turns out to have potentially really damaging, long-term consequences.” Anthony Weiner takes center stage in presidential race about men's sex lives Read more After this most astounding of all elections, nothing will be quite the same again, he believes.
(6) For a company to break into the global computing market to the extent of having its chip design in 95% of mobile phones is a truly astounding achievement worthy of this great heritage, and unlikely to be repeated in our nation for many years to come.
(7) US capitalism, indeed, depends on it, and some Americans have an astounding capacity for gravity-defying self-belief.
(8) With unfancied Colombia astounding almost everyone by beating France earlier in the day the stakes were upped appreciably.
(9) A second contributor has been the astounding progress in defining the MT-dynein motors of cytoplasmic motility.
(10) The comparison with Trinity Cambridge I judged less offensive to Muslims than the even more dramatic comparison with Jews (who have garnered an ASTOUNDINGLY large number of Nobel Prizes)."
(11) The astoundingly good performance in Experiment 1 for both patient groups was attributed to the low task demands of the experiment.
(12) Peter Higgs said: "I am astounded at the amazing speed with which these results have emerged.
(13) Then, in October 1998, as the newly appointed foreign minister, he astounded his acolytes by signing the Wye River agreement, facilitated in Maryland by President Bill Clinton, which granted Palestinians control over another 13% of the West Bank.
(14) He said the organoid was "audacious and the similarities with some of the features of a human brain really quite astounding".
(15) "At one level he was a master of the fantastic, creating astounding fashion shows that mixed design, technology and performance and on another he was a modern-day genius whose gothic aesthetic was adopted by women the world over.
(16) The number of herbal remedies that have been touted is astounding, and the entire science of Geophagia evolved in the hope identifying of those population-specific customs that may have had a positive effect on birth outcome as an adaptive mechanism.
(17) But contrary to all predictions, Kirchner managed to steer the country to an astounding economic recovery.
(18) The main march was to the congress in the capital city of Buenos Aires, where I and the other female organisers were astounded at the size of the crowd.
(19) It is still astounding how close to disaster high finance brought the US and global economy in 2008.
(20) It is the culmination of an astounding campaign of fear and blackmail against the democratic right of Greeks to elect a government of their choice.