flabbergast

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

In the wake of an expanded draft call, thousands of Americans are about to encounter a fact of G.I. life that might flabbergast a veteran of World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a pity fools are prone to scribble, Such pigmy rhymesters as sincerely yours, Who flabbergast their nursery-maids and dribble All down their literary pinafores.

From The Minstrel A Collection of Poems by Amott, Lennox