(n.) That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
(n.) Wonder.
(v. i.) To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
(v. t.) To marvel at.
(v. t.) To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) You marvelled at how easy it was to live two very different lives side by side.
(2) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
(3) The infrastructure of New York that was once an "engineering marvel" is now a "liability", he said, urging a long-term rethink.
(4) Any future movie will have to fit into a schedule that includes future Star Trek instalments for Pegg and Wright's long-gestating Ant Man movie for Marvel.
(5) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(6) Tottenham had by far the best of the chances but either their own tension in front of goal or the marvels of Howard intervened.
(7) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
(8) The store, with its marvellous window displays, was as influential as her books would eventually be, pioneering a new generation of shops devoted exclusively to kitchenware.
(9) Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864-November 1865) Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambition.
(10) There is also a precedent for the disappearance of Captain America, currently played by Chris Evans , from the Marvel universe.
(11) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
(12) While his organising framework was Marxian (beginning as "an attempt to understand the arts", as he said himself), the subjects included mountain-climbing, opera, jazz and sartorial and eating fashions as well as work patterns, class solidarity and the movements of international finance – all delivered in a marvellously flexible and pungent style.
(13) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
(14) "If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing," said Evans.
(15) This was, as the German said, “spectacular, wild football” featuring marvellous attacking and slapdash defending.
(16) Click here to watch It has been reported elsewhere that Star Wars could be packaged in line with the studio's Marvel universe, which successfully delivered a series of comic book films focusing on individual superheroes before bringing them all together for the $1.5bn box office hit The Avengers earlier this year.
(17) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
(18) At the heart of it, Djinguereber was and remains a marvel of architecture where, when 2,000 people line up for prayers on a Friday, you feel the greatness of God and Islam in your soul.” Miraculously, the mosque was only slightly damaged by the Islamist groups - led by al-Qaida and Ansar Dine - who occupied Timbuktu in 2012.
(19) I suppose occasionally she may have spoken brusquely to one or two people who wanted more respect, but the job of the prime minister’s chief of staff is to be strong, it’s to be tough, it’s to be focused and she did an absolutely marvellous job.” Abbott said he did not want to criticise the new treasurer, Scott Morrison, whom he accused last week of “badly misleading people” by claiming he had warned Abbott’s office on the Friday before the leadership challenge to be on high alert.
(20) A computer server isn’t a marvel of modern technology.
Wonderland
Definition:
(n.) A land full of wonders, or marvels.
Example Sentences:
(1) For all Lagarde's charm, it's hard not to feel a sense of Alice In Wonderland bewilderment about the IMF's work.
(2) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
(3) The bizarre feelings about the images of body and objects are called the 'Alice in Wonderland syndrome' due to the similarity with Alice's dreams.
(4) That challenge prompted animated exchanges between the two benches but, otherwise, there was relatively little for Klopp to get exercised about on a night when he conceded “we were not in wonderland”.
(5) Eventually he just voiced roles, as with the Dodo Bird in the same director's Alice in Wonderland film last year, but always to striking effect.
(6) Unutma Meni (Don't Forget Me) features the 33-year-old brunette under the stage name GooGoosha - apparently her father's name for her - cavorting in a cartoon wonderland where she travels to a secluded castle and a tropical island in a limousine that floats through the air.
(7) The metamorphopsia or visual hallucination that has been named the "Alice in Wonderland syndrome" (AIWS) were the leading presentations.
(8) Imagine the biggest supermarket you've ever been to, then replace all the food with tinsel, artificial trees and decorations, and you'll be close to the spectacle that Bronner's Christmas Wonderland provides.
(9) Throw in the four very distinct seasons, the midnight sun and the northern lights, and you have a natural wonderland.
(10) Burton's film saw a 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) return to Wonderland 13 years after her previous visit.
(11) Farrell questions whether Foster's infrastructural wonderland would really work.
(12) Yet this is an Alice in Wonderland story, in which nothing is quite what it seems.
(13) The film will be based on a screenplay which the studio bought last year for a seven-figure sum from The Devil Wears Prada writer Aline Brosh McKenna in the wake of Alice in Wonderland's spectacular box-office success.
(14) Consider two books: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland .
(15) "He takes the reader straight through the looking glass into a modern Wonderland in which anything may, and probably does, happen."
(16) While the Lego and Hornby train-filled Wonderland was crammed with small boys intent on destruction on the Guardian's visit this week, the Enchanted Forest, with fairy voices emanating from multicoloured flowers and hundreds of dolls, was the main draw for girls.
(17) One only has to look at the facts to see this as a bizarre and fantastic proposition as to be almost akin to something out of Alice in Wonderland.” The Trees broke down in tears and embraced each other after the hearing.
(18) By 17 she was winning plaudits as Sophie, the broken ball of fury in US TV drama In Treatment, and at 18 she landed the lead role in Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, which for her was more about working with Burton than starring in a billion-dollar blockbuster.
(19) Alison Wonderland (@RiffRaffPayne) @FantasticFour You destroyed one of the best comic book series in just one movie.
(20) It also beat BBC2's Wonderland documentary, Meet Britain's Chinese Tiger Mums, which had 1.1 million viewers (4.4%).