Take aback

Usage examples of amaze.

By the beginning of 1915 they had accumulated a sufficient mass of evidence from the belligerent countries to convince them that great masses of people in these countries were as amazed and as anxious to end the widening bloodshed and brutalization as the neutral onlookers.

She was amazed at the absence of accusatory yaps when he found the intruder in their kitchen.

In this amazing blackness, which only the acetylene torch seemed capable of penetrating, they could make a swift escape.

I suppose he also was amazed, and with more reason, perhaps, for amazement than we.

Smiling amputees with their wooden body parts in their laps, senior citizens standing on their heads: seeing what people wanted pictures of amazed me.

Why the universe is put together in such a way that it has been called The Symbiotic Universe, and how the apparently amazing universal coincidences leading to the formulation of this Anthropic Principle have actually come into existence.

I enjoy the expectation with which the top is wrenched off the can of worms as if from some amazing birthday present, and then the sense of anticlimax in the watching faces: the forced tears and skimpy, gloating pity, the cued and dutiful applause.

This political side of his apostolate needs to be clearly apprehended if we would understand its amazing success and the wholly unique character of the Franciscan movement in its beginning.

But among the crowd of friends and admirers who, coming from all parts, pressed around the little pink house, the most amazed of all was Marius, the blind cabinet-maker, unable to contain his intense delight at the sudden burning of so much incense before his idol, for to him it had seemed that this day of apotheosis would never dawn!

But asking a twelve year old boy to clutch a balky brake lever as a wagon slips and slides down a cliff totally amazes me.

And the fact that he was able to land his frequent catches with a barbless hook was truly amazing.

His proper name was Absalom Brown, but his owner, Mister Roberts, called him Barnacle on account of his amazing powers of holding on.

Holding a torch close by his face, he called up to the amazed sentries in the bartizan to open for him.

Knowing the final scene that Josiah Bartram had planned for his amazing drama, The Shadow had arrived to draw the curtain.

The world knows your phenomenal skill in billiards, Professor, a talent second only to your amazing aptitude in theoretical physics.