Sample Sentences for
aghast
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    Harry watched, aghast, as a long black snake shot out of it, fell heavily onto the floor between them, and raised itself, ready to strike.  (source)
    aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
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    "What was that for?" he says, aghast.  (source)
    aghast = shocked or surprised
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    Polly and Digory looked at each other, aghast. ... Certainly, she was not at all the sort of person one would like to take home.  (source)
    aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
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    HALLY: ...Say you stumble or bump into somebody … do they take off any points? SAM: (aghast) Hally…! HALLY: When you're dancing — if you and your partner collide into another couple. (Hally can get no further. SAM has collapsed with laughter.)  (source)
    aghast = shocked and surprised
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    Her father, though proud she was "joining up with the good guys," was aghast that she was doing it in North Carolina.  (source)
    aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
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    Kit stared, too aghast to realize her own tactlessness.†  (source)
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    When I sent him my schedule, he was aghast.†  (source)
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    I stood aghast, the masts thrumming above me in the high wind.†  (source)
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    "Your Excellency," exclaimed Yaroslav, aghast.†  (source)
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    "But surely they would have needed your consent," she said, aghast.†  (source)
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    They seemed aghast at the notion that Owen Meany was cast as the Prince of Peace.†  (source)
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    And when I was aghast at this, he went into peals of laughter.†  (source)
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    Grand Maester Pycelle gaped at him, aghast.†  (source)
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