dumfounded

How To Use dumfounded In A Sentence

• As the workers stared dumfounded at the pipe, young girls in pea-green hairnets were passing out pea-green gloves to members of the pea-green battalion.
• We just didn't understand, and I personally was dumfounded.
• I only wanted to thrill him and satisfy him, that's why it dumfounded me so much for him to be so incredibly scared and uncomfortable with it.
• This girl utterly dumfounded me, and in the conceit of youth I thought it strange that any girl could dumfound me. Lords of the North
• He would stare dumfounded at the erudite personage at the head of the class; Leander's bare feet were always carefully adjusted to a crack between the puncheons of the floor, literally "toeing the mark"; his broad trousers, frayed out liberally at the hem, revealed his skinny and scarred little ankles, for his out-door adventures were not without a record upon the more impressionable portions of his anatomy; his waistband was drawn high up under his shoulder-blades and his ribs, and girt over the shoulders of his unbleached cotton shirt by braces, which all his learning did not prevent him from calling "galluses"; his cut, scratched, calloused hands were held stiffly down at the side seams in his nether garments in strict accordance with the regulations. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
• At that moment, I was so dumfounded that my only reaction was to slam the door and rush out.