nonplus

Example Sentences

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He found cross-examinations mentally invigorating, soon learned that he could nonplus storming attorneys if he kept smiling no matter how galling their insinuations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here was a nonplus, not without its comical side.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

The objection is therefore nothing more or less than the very ancient and famous logical fallacy with which the Greek sophists used to nonplus their antagonists.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

He wanted to nonplus and disconcert her, if such a thing were possible.

From The Dark House by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)

Utterly at a nonplus, she at length returned to the donkey—that is, to the spot, so far as she could judge, where she had left it.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.