aghast

Preposition: at

• idea: Donna is aghast at the idea, but Tanya and Rosie press the suggestion, with their song Dancing Queen.
• revelation: Retailers were aghast at the revelation that a quota meant a specified quantity and that it applied to them.
• thought: He would have been aghast at the thought of Solar Arc Directions.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• leave: Does this not leave the intelligent person aghast at the pool of sheer stupidity that is amassed in labs?

Modifying Another Word

• so: But I was so aghast at the cost that I thought ' there has to be a better way ' .
• rather: Rather aghast at what we found, I stomped off with the others down the streamway.
• still: Whitney, still aghast at the transformation in her man, spoke up: ' You leave my Ryan alone.
• absolutely: I was absolutely aghast to hear how much my correspondence was being flaunted before the public gaze.
• there: There are probably seasoned entrepreneurs out there aghast at our lack of business savvy.

Infinitive complement

• see: I was aghast to see a picture of a shopping trolley, not a trolley-bus.
• hear: Miller recalled: " The third night I was aghast to hear that the picket was to take ball ammunition.
• discover: But I was aghast to discover that the battery in my camera was too low.
• learn: They were aghast to learn they had committed plagiarism, since they had both included the textbook in their bibliography at the end.

Used with adjective complement

• stare: He was staring aghast at the sudden appearance of Kemp, followed by the extraordinary sight of clothing tossing empty in the air.
• stand: Ignorant of the world, we stood aghast at the charge of eighteen pence for each.
• watch: With eyes aflame, he'd watched aghast, and stayed there quite a time.
• look: I saw Mackay look aghast at this point: he'd just heard a song shorter than most of his own.
• listen: Leon, listening aghast to a gleeful recital of his friend's probable fate, was ashen faced.
• sit: I wrote and asked; was told it had never been received, and sat aghast.

Preposition: with

• horror: The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror.