stupefaction

Example Sentences

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Rogan, wearing his persona as a babe-in-the-woods naif, listened to this nonsense in slack-jawed stupefaction.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

I swam in the freezing loch as my family looked on with some stupefaction.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2021

If it’s a work setting and you’re trying to replicate the familiar, brain-dead stupefaction vibe of a professional meeting, you should consider wearing pants.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2020

To his stupefaction, less than a year later he was convicted.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2017

And Mr Marshall it was who first caused stupefaction amongst ladies and gentlemen visiting Charleville House with displays of silver polished to previously unimagined standards.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro