struck dumb

Never has he been more mortal—struck dumb and slow, crumbs spilling down his shirt—and never have we deemed him more godly.

Men of a certain age are struck dumb for a couple of beats by the question.

Yet if you ask them about an essential point of cooking or how to master a given technique, well, most are struck dumb.

The king was grieved and surprised, and Maimonides, struck dumb with amazement, was unable to say a word.

He is not a brooding inarticulate man, then; but a bright-glancing, articulate; not to be struck dumb by the face of Death itself.

Again we were struck dumb with surprise and something like fear,and again Diana Chesney broke the silence.

The angel was Gabriel who stands in the presence of God, and because Zacharias believed not, he was struck dumb.

"You mean——" she says, then pauses, struck dumb by the white agony of his face.