flabbergasted
Example Sentences
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A master manipulator, he’s both a playwright and an actor, constructing scenes that might seem impossible to pull off, then delivering a virtuoso performance that leaves everyone flabbergasted by his success.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
A woman whose parents founded the charity Alan Carr donated his Celebrity Traitors' winnings to says the gesture has left her family "flabbergasted".
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025
Yet the news that inflation could be worse is hardly comforting for millions of Americans still flabbergasted at the prices of necessities like food, housing and insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Schulz, who went through the IVF process with his wife, seemed genuinely flabbergasted the notoriously dishonest president had lied about this.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2025
I am so flabbergasted by their total failure as hunters that I break from my chase and just gape at the roiling gold-and-red fur ball that is their two bodies.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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