How to Use wonderment in a Sentence

wonderment

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  • He felt a sense of wonderment.
  • The look on his face was a pure smile and pure wonderment.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2022
  • The city is a wonderment to me, the way the sunlight hits the buildings, all the colors.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The hall stills with the music, and an air of wonderment gathers.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • If Chiles was the emcee, Harris was the star, her 10 a source of wonderment.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Chari felt a wide-eyed wonderment for the people around him, too.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Vinocour leaves us there, blinking in the wonderment of our own madness.
    — Rachel Louise Snyder, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Rather, the images build and scatter, with a sidelong glance, a wonderment, the capture of a felt moment.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
  • As a 5-year-old, Finley viewed the pending arrival of Brooke with child-like wonderment.
    — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The president took the pianist’s two hands in his own, looking at them with wonderment and awe.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The feebleness of the batters take me back to an era of dominance and wonderment.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The girl, looking up in wonderment, head spinning, thinks: Rice!
    — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
  • In a world that has been nothing but upside down and inside out since the start of March last year, the mundane can border on wonderment.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Chazelle begins with a visual screech and ends with a man alone at the movies in a 1952 epilogue, lost in bittersweet wonderment.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
  • One lot expressed wonderment at my grasp of the English language.
    — Deepa Mehta, Variety, 16 May 2022
  • Here, too, bring your sense of adventure and wonderment.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • No longer do world-class triathletes look in wonderment at the curly-haired youngster who always seems to be among leaders at top triathlons.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 28 May 2020
  • And in asking why, this isn’t an expression of wonderment that the U.S. didn’t fully disarm.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Some of the new dinos have red feathers, a cute touch, but there's little of the wonderment of the first film, barring an image of a sad bronto at a logging site.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022
  • One aspect that probably goes through your head is the wonderment of what is going through the noggin of the other driver.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • The 49ers’ 7-0 season has been all about surprise and wonderment, joy and a growing team camaraderie.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Then there are those filmmakers who bring the real, wider world to us, in all its wonderment and sense of revelation.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • Rivera put her hand over her heart and shook her head in wonderment as President Barack Obama presented the medal.
    — Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Her favorite tipu grows in Elysian Park and in midsummer rains down a wonderment of yellow flowers.
    — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • But that wonderment has returned with Ohtani, McNamee said.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2018
  • His scholarship and wonderment speaks for all cinephiles.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Creating a world that's filled with wonderment, legacy and soul.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 May 2021
  • In the streaming age, such instances were liable to incite wonderment from other art-rock bands.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In those days, the focus was the usual tech wonderment preoccupation about whether or not AI could be devised to drive a car.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The al pastor is also great as a torta ($5), but the wonderment of the pork gets a little lost amid the iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise tucked inside a very flaky bun.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021

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