dumbfound
Example Sentences
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Ordinary air travelers have been dumbfounded by the chaos.
I was so dumbfounded I couldn’t even think straight, much less say anything.
From Literature
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American skater Nathan Chen, the Beijing men's individual gold medallist, was dumbfounded, saying: "What a shock".
From Barron's
He said the volatility in recent weeks has left him and other investors feeling “awestruck and dumbfounded at times.”
When you’re born and raised in the United States, American nationalism and English-language centrism are so deeply ingrained into the culture that watching an actor work in another tongue is dumbfounding.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.