How To Use Gobsmacked In A Sentence
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Have you then seen the same old coffin dodger like ten years later and been utterly gobsmacked to see them still alive and kicking?
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To say I was gobsmacked is something of an understatement.
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I was gobsmacked finding out about the medal.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
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BONUS BOOT TO THE NADS: TPM's Josh Marshall refers to this as getting "gobsmacked":
Archive 2008-10-01
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Since then we've been gobsmacked with the response.
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Anyone who can use a word like "gobsmacked" deserves to go to Blogher.
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I was gobsmacked to hear, in a set of headlines today, that the coalition was suffering ‘significant casualties’.
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I’m gobsmacked that a smack in the gob is considered acceptable corporal punishment by about three in five Japanese!
Japanese schools deteriorating due mainly to bullying and bad teachers
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Hopefully there will be none because everyone else will be gobsmacked at your arrogance.
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Anyway, I was kind of gobsmacked by his talent and I was talking to my mum about it later this afternoon.
Sheepdip Diary Entry
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Wandering round the school, I was absolutely gobsmacked at the care that had been taken to get all the props and period details right.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘It was a real bargain,’ said the gobsmacked health service worker, who doesn't even like football.
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At the time I was gobsmacked at his sheer lack of worldliness.
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War veterans who haven't spoken a word about their soldiering in sixty years start relaying anecdotes about the nineteen-year-old versions of themselves that leave one gobsmacked.
Kevin Patterson - An interview with author
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He denied it was intentional, saying he was "gobsmacked" by the charge, but a FIFA disciplinary committee on Saturday found him guilty of violent conduct.
USATODAY.com - FIFA punishment: Two-game ban for Rooney, Argentina loses two players
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I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
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I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
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I was gobsmacked but she just asked me if I liked the view.
The Sun
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Mrs Moore said she was "gobsmacked" to hear the company had ceased trading.
BBC News - Home
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I'll be absolutely gobsmacked if they don't go up.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are still some things in life which leave me utterly gobsmacked.
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Steve, the centre's deputy head of operations, sounding like a man who might be gobsmacked to hear that this wasn't universal behaviour in the British working population.
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He was gutted, gobsmacked, and didn't care who knew.
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His house-made strozzapreti with wild boar ragu has the kind of toothy textural mojo passed down by generations of nonnas; his pillowy gnocchi with rabbit confit sauce is dressed in a thin arugula pesto that had my table gobsmacked; and an Acquarello aged-rice pudding accented with crunchy puffed rice brittle makes playful but respectful use of esoteric ingredients.
Chicago Reader
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I'd be gobsmacked if he was involved in anything to do with match-fixing or corruption.
The Sun
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I was really gobsmacked when I saw your picture of a model wearing a hat with a toy airplane on it.
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He admitted: 'I was gobsmacked when she claimed that hole.
The Sun
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We visited once, in the 1980s, and I remember being fairly gobsmacked that my mater grew up in such a place.
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I was gobsmacked to hear the Nottingham game had been cancelled, but it was all timed to perfection by SMG.
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Much to my surprise - I wrote at the time I was "gobsmacked" - he had indeed left his wife whom Casey believes had no knowledge of the affair and a more confident Casey was moving to his city to be with him.
The Seattle Times
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She said: 'I was absolutely gobsmacked.
The Sun
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Fernandez recently threw a party for one of his daughters at the Royal Botanical Gardens, to which gobsmacked guests were ferried in limos and greeted by mock paparazzi.
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One mum said: 'I was gobsmacked.
The Sun
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Spouse was gobsmacked. After tea and lots of talking, I rang my Mum, singing the praises of epidurals.
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When we first arrived at one of the designated factories and saw wing struts being milled out of solid slabs of Aluminium on a milling machine 80 metres long, I was gobsmacked - swarf and shiny metal everywhere.
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It doesn't turn anthropology or the story of human evolution on its head, a piece of science-correspondent gabble I think I heard during my goggle-eyed, gobsmacked, yelping look at yesterday evening's TV news.
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I always liked the British slang "gobsmacked" -- it sounds a little violent, but sometimes you do just feel smacked by whatever's happening around you, you know?
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Stunned
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Everyone who sees it is gobsmacked.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was absolutely gobsmacked by that one.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I think children and parents are going to be gobsmacked when they look around,’ he said, speaking ahead of yesterday's open day.
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I was just gobsmacked by this.
The Sun
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I was gobsmacked because you just think it's going to take a long time with somebody older.
The Sun
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Fielding at short mid wicket he took off, flung himself full length to his left and caught the ball in his outstretched left hand leaving Young gobsmacked.
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But university chums are gobsmacked at his claim.
The Sun
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Even my jaded self was pretty gobsmacked to click on a link to an actual food writer's post on whether "frizzled" is actually a word.
Gastropoda
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Top End Tourism spokeswoman Sylvia Wolf was "gobsmacked" at the outcome.
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I'm pretty gobsmacked that it's being considered.
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I was, to coin a phrase, gobsmacked!
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I was, to coin a phrase, gobsmacked!
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Constitutional Court judges were "gobsmacked" when they learnt that
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He was just glowing afterwards, he was gobsmacked.
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I am still constantly gobsmacked we are still together after what we have been through.
The Sun
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We were all absolutely gobsmacked.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are times when you run out of words to describe the actions of local politicians - you are sometimes left gobsmacked by the sheer audacity of their decisions.
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Selby flood victims said today they were "gobsmacked" after homes they thought might be unsellable were "selling like hot cakes."
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Sample sentence 'I was gobsmacked and had to sit down because these were the days when 85,000 was a lot of money.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was gobsmacked to hear that suburbia has the same fuel load KG of burnable / square meter as open eucalypt forest, but the real “Faark me” moment was when the dude spoke of fighting the fire front in suburbia - access is better than in a forest, but when you run out of fire trucks & crews, access aint gonna help.
Cheeseburger Gothic » All Hail Tarl, the King of New York.
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It left the much-travelled 30-year-old totally gobsmacked.
The Sun
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Page fumed: 'Everybody was gobsmacked to see him point to the spot.
The Sun
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I felt angry and tricked and was totally gobsmacked.
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I'd never been so utterly gobsmacked by the beauty of a place.
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‘We were gobsmacked by the success of the film, we couldn't believe it,’ Borland says.
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I was gobsmacked to read what a supposedly "artisan" apiarist is recommending people use on the bees in their care.
Bee-wise or Greed-driven
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The few times I did walk away, she would be utterly gobsmacked by my actions.
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I quietly opened the door and was gobsmacked to see my brother on top of my stepmum.
The Sun
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A man whose car was towed says he was gobsmacked when the towie said in court that he paid the rail company a $120 commission per tow.
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I watched, gobsmacked, as he was blindfolded and went on to identify random objects from the crowd by passing his hands over them but not touching them.
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He had stayed there 30 years before as a student and was gobsmacked to see that not a stick of furniture had been renewed.
Times, Sunday Times
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But university chums are gobsmacked at his claim.
The Sun
