(a.) Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.
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."
Bombshell
Definition:
(n.) A bomb. See Bomb, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) A prominent Mexican journalist and her publisher, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, are being sued in an attempt to force them to remove a bombshell political investigation from the country’s bookstores.
(2) Labour will then be challenged – remorselessly, day after day – to back these measures or face that most familiar of charges: that it is planning a tax bombshell (with the added piquancy that this time the increase is needed simply to pour money into what will be billed as a broken welfare system).
(3) In public life you meet people, and from time to time they give you things, they might give you ties, they might give you pens … sure a bottle of grange is pretty special.” Asked when he had learned of O’Farrell’s bombshell decision, Abbott said “he texted me that I should call him, by the time I saw the text he was about to go in and make his statement.
(4) Our ConservativeHome poll of party members shows Theresa May now leads the blond bombshell in the stakes to be the next leader.
(5) Many foreign nations have also now realized that the scope of US spying exceeds any reasonable standard of behavior, so much so that if there are any bombshells remaining in the documents taken by Snowden, they would most likely relate to the specific targets of overseas espionage.
(6) At their post-summit press conferences, neither of the two sent any signals of the bombshell from Athens.
(7) Senate staffers, notorious in Washington for selectively leaking classified information, kept silent for years on a bombshell investigation into the use of torture by the CIA.
(8) These bombshells come in the absence of serious work – like the interim report of the McClure review – or indications that government is engaging with a meaningful program of broader reforms capable of addressing the many systemic and attitudinal barriers that keep too many people with disability out of the workforce.
(9) This bombshell will weaken supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, chief negotiator Saeed Jalili, and the rest of Tehran's hardliner crew abroad and at home although, as usual, they will try to bluff their way through.
(10) In a £2bn tax bombshell, from April 2017 landlords will no longer be able to claim tax reliefs worth 40% or 45% of the interest payments on their buy-to-let mortgages.
(11) Just 24 hours before the hugely contentious deal is voted on in Athens, you arrange for the IMF to drop a bombshell: the agreement won’t work.
(12) Everyone has to help and we are here to help the boys – it’s our duty to participate.” “He [ Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas] promised a bombshell during his last speech, but we still haven’t seen anything,” a young woman told Agence France-Presse in another interview.
(13) Its basic thesis - though still vigorously contested - became so much a part of the framework of later thinking that it is difficult to recall what a bombshell it was at the time.
(14) The contest between Labour and the Conservatives is shaping into one of the crudest fights in British politics since John Major defeated Neil Kinnock in 1992 with his warnings of a Labour tax bombshell.
(15) In his new book The War on Journalism: Media Moguls, Whistleblowers and the Price of Freedom , ex-ABC journalist Andrew Fowler drops a bombshell.
(16) Amid this dense electoral fog, what is clear is that Comey’s bombshell last Friday that the FBI is in a sense reviving its probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was US secretary of state has had a profound impact on the race.
(17) In the press conference that followed their Oval Office meeting , there were no bombshells: Trump managed to get through it without insulting an entire ethnic group, trashing a democratic norm or declaring war, any of which might have diverted attention from May’s big moment.
(18) But days after he dropped his anti-Muslim bombshell, evidence is starting to build that he might actually be right – the proposal, so abhorrent to so many, has actually gone down well with many conservatives.
(19) The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, accused the government of planning “a tax bombshell” while former Lib Dem business secretary Sir Vince Cable accused May of being at war with her chancellor, Philip Hammond, over tax.
(20) And on that bombshell … we await The Alan Partridge movie, which should be hitting cinemas in 2013.