speechless

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Hill says she was "speechless for a good 10 minutes" after finding out that she had been chosen to receive the money.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

"It's the Gold Cup. They just get better and better. I am speechless," said Townend after his fifth Gold Cup triumph.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Learning the real reason he had been lured to the venue with "a perfect lie", he said: "I'm speechless, knocked out."

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

A woman whose dogs were stolen eight years ago said she was left "speechless" when she was reunited with one of them.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

All those miles and days had been across a houseless, speechless desolation: rock, ice, sky, and silence: nothing else, for eighty-one days, except each other.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin