How To Use Dumbstruck In A Sentence
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I immediately caught it with both hands and just stared at him, too dumbstruck to speak.
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It has left me dumbstruck to the criticism this film has received.
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For instance, even a passing train would leave the audience dumbstruck.
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Haggis said that he felt "dumbstruck and horrified," adding, "Tommy, if only a fraction of these accusations are true, we are talking about serious, indefensible human and civil-rights violations.
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In the kitchen I found my servant and a stray village child, both dumbstruck by this apparition.
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Furthermore, the author says that the word dumbstruck in the expression "I was dumbstruck by the news" is a compound noun.
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Jimmy looked dumbstruck for a moment, then started to laugh.
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I'm still dumbstruck by how people think celebrities have anything important to say about anything except the pressures of being famous.
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Even Michael just watched, dumbstruck, until she reached the floor.
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While Ms McKenzie said she was very angry at what had happened to her mother, Mr Jorgensen said he was, for the moment, "dumbstruck".
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And what teacher's notes in what context could have led one examinee to coin a word dumbstruck, which another candidate heard as "bumstruck"?
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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He had the same dumbstruck look on his face for most of the movie, occasionally substituting the look of awe for a goofy grin.
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But mine was momentarily dumbstruck when, after his talk, I passed through a doorway inside the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and entered an air-conditioned simulation of the Grand Canal.
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False notes are struck - stupid, kick-yourself-later comments are delivered - and I eventually lapse into dumbstruck, simpering silence, longing for the encounter to be over.
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One second he is drawling and smirking and throwing cheap insults at me, the next, he's gaping like a dumbstruck fool.
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Jimmy looked dumbstruck for a moment, then started to laugh.
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He had the same dumbstruck look on his face for most of the movie, occasionally substituting the look of awe for a goofy grin.
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Trent faced the girl who'd spoken to him and was completely dumbstruck.
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I'm no engineer but even I could appreciate with dumbstruck awe just how much work has gone into the redevelopment.
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We don't love music, they say - if we did we'd know how great this band's, or that band, or we'd be so dumbstruck by music's shocking beauties we'd rightly find no words for it at all, at least not the dry or sarky or clever ones we do come up with.
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But the coroner, Lady Justice Hallett, said she had been "dumbstruck" by his modesty and his "simply amazing" actions.
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She was not sure what to think, and I was so dumbstruck my mouth opened and closed for a while beside the phone without a sound.
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He was dumbstruck at the possibility that one individual could finance a project on this scale, but time was pressing and he was willing to listen to any offers.
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The head of the creature was over two feet taller than Maria, but still it seemed that this beast was dumbstruck with terror.
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While the woman tied up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man could only stare ahead, dumbstruck.
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But mine was momentarily dumbstruck when, after his talk, I passed through a doorway inside the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and entered an air-conditioned simulation of the Grand Canal.
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Catherine Gibson said she was "dumbstruck" after police revealed that forensic tests showed they had discovered her 25-year-old daughter's body at an address in the Capital, it was reported.
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I was dumbstruck and made my informant go over it twice more, both to make sure that I had got it right and to detect any special meanings hidden in any of the terms in question.
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I will admit to being completely dumbstruck, which is a feat for me.
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His hosts are dumbstruck when their language is used against them with such slangy glee.
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I was totally dumbstruck at what they were asking us in the exam.
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He was well thought of by his colleagues and everyone is dumbstruck.
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When I read about London and Britain's transport system of 80 to 100 years ago I'm dumbstruck.
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By all accounts he took charge when the towers fell, and he displayed leadership when others were dumbstruck.
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I gave the kids some colouring in to do this afternoon and was amazed and dumbstruck by their response - they sat quietly, put lots of effort into making the flowers look good and seemed to enjoy it.
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The door opened and he watched dumbstruck as the girl got in with a smile on her face.
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I gave the kids some colouring in to do this afternoon and was amazed and dumbstruck by their response - they sat quietly, put lots of effort into making the flowers look good and seemed to enjoy it.
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I sat there, dumbstruck, wondering who could laugh at this, let alone applaud.
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Despite a friend giving me the three word spoiler for “The Half Blood Prince,” which he didn’t realize was important until I stared at him in dumbstruck horror and said THANKS MAN – WAITED 6 MONTHS TO GET THIS BOOK FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND YOU SPOILED IT IN THREE WORDS … but he didn’t.
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He looked dumbstruck, his bottom jaw practically on the floor, his eyes huge in his head.
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Millions of Americans were dumbstruck by the news of the bombing.
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Midpoint between dismissive and dumbstruck is the objective mindset to appreciate how pragmatic idealism shaped Federico's leadership and patronage.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Liz looks, well, faintly dumbstruck.
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Then she left and fifteen dumbstruck three and four year-olds won't ever be the same again.
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Renaming Creationism as "Intelligent Design Theory" gives it a respectability it doesn't deserve, since it does not meet any of the criteria of a scientific theory - there is no POSITIVE evidence of a creator or designer (all they have is a kind of dumbstruck awe: "isn't the world complex?" and a lack of imagination "We can't imagine how this came to be", followed by an illogical step "it must be a designer").
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The fencer sat on the floor, dumbstruck, and now twirling with all kinds of emotions.
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You did a great job, Veronica and really brought a wonderful example and advice (and I know what you mean about Kim Gandy - I just was kind of dumbstruck shaking her hand - and could only mutter, "Thank you!").
Feminism 2.0 Debrief - Opening Plenary
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As he did so light spilled over her lovely face suddenly and he was dumbstruck.
