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How to use aghast in a sentence

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This is no time for political reporters to be holding their noses like dowager duchesses aghast at the vulgarity of the masses.
I know many videophiles will be aghast, but my concern in changing ratios stems from butchering widescreen to pan and scan.
Try as I might to hide my emotions, it was tough not to be aghast at the scratching so close to my work surface.
Her reverie was broken by a babel of voices, the approach of running feet, and suddenly her vision was filled with Theo's aghast features.
I have an urge to walk around in the nude, but Neil has a roommate and while he's at work, I'd be rather aghast to have him show up unexpectedly.
They stand aghast that a person can devote so much of their busy life to quiet conversations with these furry friends.
No sooner has Frank recovered the uphill ski than he turns aghast to see another bad crash and a second guided missile just brushing past him.
Hornby was aghast but answered her questions in increasingly staccato and downbeat tones.
On the other hand, most readers would probably be appalled and aghast at this stuff.
Recently, Macintosh and his wife, Claire, had family pictures taken and were aghast to see how much they seem to have aged in the year.
Mr. Iyengar, who specialises in laws related to intellectual property rights, was aghast.
Television cameras exposed the errors, viewers were aghast and the sport's officials were left red-faced.
I am aghast with horror that at this late stage in the day, we are still having to have this argument.
Cultures like the Japanese or some continental European ones are less aghast at the idea of collective decision making and responsibility.
She looked slightly aghast at his words, but any real emotion she hid behind a mask of silent fury.
His blue eyes blacken and I watch aghast, as he buries his face in his hands with a barely stifled groan.
Eric did the funny bits and Previn, vamped in a de rigueur monkey suit and swishing a baton, looked on aghast.
Amid the muddle, Australia and New Zealand, the region's most influential powers, stood aghast as outrage followed outrage.
Jasmine jolted to a halt and stared aghast into the unholy creature's absent eyes.
The interviewer was aghast that I could question the prime minister's integrity.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I heard Cousin Egbert say with what I was aghast to suspect was admiration.
The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment.
Mercedes begged, aghast, quaking in realisation of the enormity of her mistake.
As Millington brought the automobile to a stop we looked at each other aghast.
When mamma saw the wide staircase leading to the dormitories she was aghast.
I stood aghast at this scurrilous address, the like of which I had never yet heard.
He stood aghast at this snap of their great bond, at the renouncement that rang out in the word she so expressively sounded.
She stood aghast all this time, partly with real, partly with affected, surprise.
The spectators recoiled, aghast with indignant astonishment.
For a moment we stood aghast, and gazed at this horrifying sight.
And even the man-about-town stands aghast at the ultra-modern crazes.
The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band.
The red eye of the morning peered aghast over the shoulder of the Pike.
Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady's chamber.
He was clearly aghast at the largeness of the sum, and thought a far smaller amount should have been tried first.
Orthodoxy was not a little aghast at its theologic suggestions.
For a spell I was too thunderstruck to speak, aghast at this catastrophe.
In another moment he was in his room, and the twins were standing aghast over the body of the murdered man!
For a minute perhaps I stared aghast at this blackness that was creeping over the day, and then I realized that an eclipse was beginning.
Aunt was aghast at the mortalities among the rummer glasses.
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