flabbergast

Example Sentences

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Though I generally stuck to the main questline and sidequests, the optional tombs that I sampled were diverting puzzle boxes that sometimes stumped me but didn’t flabbergast me.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018

Sections on the possibility of artificial consciousness would flabbergast even Philip K. Dick.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018

A feature on jargon in "soccer" - the American terms that leave Brits reeling and the British terms that flabbergast Americans - generated a huge response from readers.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2013

But her statements flabbergast a number of her former colleagues at the University of Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

And nothing has happened to astound or flabbergast him, to send him sprawling with Cheyne-Stokes breathing.

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.