Astounding has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Astounding, isn't it? | |
| 2. | If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. | |
| 3. | This is astounding. | |
| 4. | Isn't that astounding? | |
| 5. | The results were astounding. | |
| 6. | The diversity of flowers in this area is astounding. | |
| 7. | “A dog’s nose is absolutely astounding, in terms of what it can detect,” Logan told VOA. “We’re talking about parts per trillion. So it’s like a teaspoon of sugar in two Olympic-sized swimming pools, it’s that sort of equivalence.” | |
| 8. | His arrogance was astounding; he actually believed his uninformed opinion was better than the experts’. |