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Amazed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Amaze

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
  • (2) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
  • (3) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (4) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
  • (5) It represents a rapid deterioration in relations since Monday when, previewing the Rotherham game, Karanka spoke of his “amazing” relationship with Steve Gibson, Boro’s owner, and everyone at the club.
  • (6) I opened my eyes and my mouth wide, which made everyone in the audience think I was amazed at what I was seeing.
  • (7) "Siri [the iPhone voice recognition assistant] reminds me of the woman who's told a dog plays chess and is asked, 'Isn't that amazing?'"
  • (8) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
  • (9) It was an amazing save,” said Mauricio Pochettino , the Tottenham manager.
  • (10) "Amazingly my mobile number was on it, so they were inquiring where they should deliver the parcel," they added.
  • (11) "The player [Suárez] is amazing and I love his quality, commitment and ambition to play," said Mourinho.
  • (12) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (13) We recruit our colleagues for their enthusiasm, for delivering amazing customer service, and we invest in their development to ensure they can reach their full potential.
  • (14) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
  • (15) Some were amazingly naïve about culture as well as finance: "Can you read Spanish?"
  • (16) I would remind ourselves that peace will offer amazing achievements.
  • (17) AlphaGo: beating humans is one thing but to really succeed AI must work with them Read more The amazing thing is how quickly it’s happening.
  • (18) So, of course he is going to suffer, it doesn’t matter if he has an amazing job.” The prince said the event was an opportunity to show that even “unflappable” sporting personalities could experience mental health problems.
  • (19) Ultimately, however, the opportunity for personal development is provided, not by Twitter, but by the amazing and unique people who use it.
  • (20) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."

Fascinating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fascinate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (2) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (3) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
  • (4) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
  • (5) The goal must be to prevent or reverse this fascinating disease, utilizing specific therapy designed from a knowledge of the cause and pathogenesis of the disease.
  • (6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
  • (7) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
  • (8) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
  • (9) Her history is fascinating – every time you think she has finished telling you about her childhood, she embarks on another chapter.
  • (10) This kind of audience investment is one of the reasons why James Baker's 30 Days to Space , at the Edinburgh 2010 forest fringe, proved so fascinating.
  • (11) "It's fascinating that 2010 will be bookended by two controversial political books, one about the latter years of the Government [Observer writer Andrew Rawnsley's The End of the Party], and one by the man that delivered New Labour to the country in the 1990s."
  • (12) The fascinating pathogenetic, clinical, biological and therapeutic resemblances between the present syndrome and the post-infarctual syndrome of Dressler and Johnson's post-pericardiotomic syndrome are pointed out and it is suggested that complications of medical nature already described as being secondary to the installation of pacemakers, such as endocarditis and pericarditis, should be looked at from an autoimmune type of pathogenetic viewpoint.
  • (13) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
  • (14) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
  • (15) The weeks ahead in Australia will likely be fascinating, exciting, distressing, emotional, anticipatory, and, at times, challenging .
  • (16) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (17) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
  • (18) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
  • (19) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
  • (20) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.