How To Use Stunned In A Sentence

Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
Many animals are not properly stunned as they are pushed through the slaughterhouse as quickly as possible.
I don't imagine cows much like being stunned with airguns, or chickens living in cages that deform their bodies, being forced to lay eggs until they die. MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
Many are stunned that such far-reaching changes can be made without their consent. Times, Sunday Times
Stunned gallery visitors watched as guards grabbed him until cops arrived to arrest him. The Sun

United left the pitch looking stunned and drained.
The assault was so unexpected that he was briefly stunned into submission.
Genevieve was aware only of the diatribe; she knew a flood of abuse was pouring from the lips of the Jewess, but she was too stunned to hear the details of the abuse. Chapter 2
Stunned gallery visitors watched as guards grabbed him until cops arrived to arrest him. The Sun
Animals killed by the shechita technique are not stunned before having their throats cut and blood drained out. Plan to label ritually slaughtered meat angers religious group
Hejazi gave a speech, which boomed from the speakers over the convocation mall, leaving cookie nibblers stunned.
Industry observers were stunned, with one saying that the ousting 'reeks of gangsterism'. Times, Sunday Times
After being stunned by the spring flowers she saw in the park while she was pregnant, she decided to call her daughter Bluebell.
Morris was so stunned by this that he experienced a moment of total disorientation.
Almost all were too stunned to speak, as fire swept through the nearby houses, including their own. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
They knew they were trying to ride a very weak and handicapped candidate to victory, and he went down to a much worse defeat than they had anticipated and so I think right now a lot of Democrats are stunned.
Stunned at this cover-up, I was rooted to the spot.
I was shocked, stunned and upset that she had to go through all of that.
A puff of smoke from behind a distant rock, the boom of a jezail, and Desmond fell beside the Boy, stunned by a well-aimed shot on the edge of the cheek-bone, the slug glancing off perilously close to the right eye. Captain Desmond, V.C.
Stunned police charged him with public indecency - a crime because he lives near a school. The Sun
For a moment Trent and Mariana were held immobile, stunned by the incredible power from which they had so narrowly escaped.
‘It struck me like a physical blow, a bullet to the heart, staggering me back, stunned,’ recalls Campbell.
Analysts were stunned by Far East's precipitous drop.
An air of gravity and solemnity pervaded the president's remarks as a stunned nation listened by radio.
I was so stunned, I couldn't even wrach brap my brain around it. CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2007
She was stunned by the early ouster of David Hasselhoff, taken with the pigeon-toed charm of Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino and blown away by the sensuality of Jennifer Grey. Carrie Ann Inaba Opens Up About Dancing With the Stars
The book leaves the reader often stunned by his intermittent inhumanity and his incorrigible sentimentality.
When the length of the sentence was then announced, Coltman appeared visibly stunned, swaying backwards and forwards.
He stunned police by turning up unannounced and spending 40 minutes working up a sweat. The Sun
In an upset that stunned the Sandinista machine and its American sympathizers, Nicaraguans went for challenger Violeta Chamorro, who won 55% of the vote to Mr. Ortega's 41%. Ortega Won't Let Go of Nicaragua
He was stunned to learn more money is spent on prison grub than food for the sick. The Sun
The poor guy at the table was stunned that I wasn't trying to scoop him.
They were stunned; they'd never thought their precious boy could harm a fly, let alone choke another person.
The workers were too stunned to react on seeing complete strangers entering their area.
The fall stunned me for a moment.
It was quiet, no barmy celebrations, with stunned supporters still coming to terms with what they had seen.
The poor sweepers in India would be stunned by the exalted status of the sanitation workers in America, who make pretty handsome salaries.
Into the stunned silence that followed this outburst from short-spoken, reticent Olive, there came a new voice; such a sweet, lovely voice with Six Girls A Home Story
The announcement stunned the City. Times, Sunday Times
Stunned zoo visitors watched as the big cat pounced, hooked the bird with a claw through its cage, then held it with his teeth. The Sun
His hysterical laughter made everybody stunned.
After extensive recces across Britain, we were stunned by the richness of possibilities at home.
Yet just a day before his death he had performed a rehearsal in Los Angeles that had left onlookers stunned by its quality. Times, Sunday Times
Replaying his reel-to-reel tape, Jurgenson was stunned when he supposedly heard - between the twitters of the blackbirds - the distinct voice of his mother.
The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned.
Stunned gallery visitors watched as guards grabbed him until cops arrived to arrest him. The Sun
They were stunned to find the back spattered with blood. The Sun
I bounced up over the hood and ricocheted off the windshield, skidding to a stunned halt across the blacktop pavement.
Counsellors, shrinks and psychologists are flocking to the disaster sites and the homes of grieving relatives to comfort the hurting, the stunned and the overwhelmed, sometimes with a media crew in tow.
Seems the fake Brad was barhopping through the stunned Midwestern nightlife with a bevy of bodyguards, garbed in a black cowboy hat and goatee.
I was so stunned to know he acknowledged my mere existence.
The light that came from those papyri shocked the scholars and stunned the grammarians. Christianity Today
Tunisian designer Soucha, who was one of the much - anticipated displayers, stunned attendees with ‘very unoriental, unpractical clothing’ as described by the audience surrounding the Weekly.
I play the child, and weep at the recollection — for the grief is still fresh that stunned as well as wounded me — yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew the cheeks of infantine innocence — and why should they mine, that never was stained by a blush of guilt? Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
In December he had sat stunned at a hastily organised and crowded press conference at Heathrow airport.
She said she was stunned to receive an email, purporting to be from Cook, which mocked her use of the phrase "ravaged with it" to describe her condition. Evening Standard - Home
A few years back our union members applied to have airport security officer jobs regraded - in some cases we were stunned to find we had to battle the boss to get new improved standards.
Stunned by the cultural assumptions of this re-christening, Tseng became Kwong Chi in his photographs, posing with phony officialism in front of famous landmarks.
Even the most seasoned pol has to gape in stunned disbelief that John McCain, the one-time presidential candidate, is willing to give credence to made-up claims about "death panels. Douthat: It's The Party's Fault
He was sure she was too overcome with emotion to answer, and while she sat in stunned silence, he stole a chaste kiss.
Animal welfare and secular campaigners have no objection to halal meat as long as the animals have been stunned before killing, as usually happens in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
News of the disaster stunned people throughout the world.
The Republican leadership ha been stunned by its unexpected defeat in 1948.
The news has stunned war veterans in the city - and has sparked an urgent plea for more volunteers to come forward.
It was only in the aftermath of the disaster that the belief took hold that Titanic had been considered unsinkable, highlighting the stunned and universal surprise at the loss of Britain's most advanced ocean giant.
Elsewhere in Division Two, the Lothersdale ‘B’ stunned Embassy Ambassadors ‘C’ by whitewashing their hosts.
Looking very stunned, he pushed me out of the way and all three legged it down the road.
The depredators were, however, stunned with the courageous defiance by the Queen's soldiers.
He stops and stares, obviously stunned at seeing the opening of the hidden passage.
Almost all were too stunned to speak, as fire swept through the nearby houses, including their own. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
The android looked clearly stunned, not expecting to receive such a reaction from a normally pleasant woman.
At the moment, he had been stunned into a kind of quiescence; now his nerves throbbed and tingled. Maurice Guest
After watching the pilot DVD in stunned silence, I had to check a few episodes on disk 2 of the four DVD set, just to make sure that my eyes hadn't deceived me.
As stunned residents looked on, forensic officers worked around a large tent in the alley at the back of Amberley Street which separates a row of back-to-back homes in neighbouring Gladstone Street.
Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters.
While it is the sheer physicality of Mr. Hurt's performance that impresses most—he totters about the stage with the squeaky-shoed grace of the music-hall clowns that Beckett loved—you will be no less stunned by the sound of his creaky, rusty voice, which suggests a hermit who never has occasion to speak a word aloud for months at a time. The End Of the Line
The Yankees made a comeback attempt that fell short, and a stunned crowd, which had been amped to celebrate a World Series trip, filed out.
Early on in her illness, he stunned Japan by appearing to condemn senior courtiers for their lack of sympathy for her. Times, Sunday Times
Z target and fire you bomarang it will be stunned attack with sword bam! Undefined
Perhaps more than anything else it was the swiftness of the company's demise that stunned so many onlookers.
Stunned by the awkward interruption, the cringing star was quick to explain: "That is so embarrassing! That is my phone."
Both humans dropped to the ground, and lay stunned for a space of time barely measurable.
stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses
The little maestro looked as stunned as the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times
News of the disaster stunned people throughout the world.
A stunned Graham recapped: "You went to Virginia Williams with a baby, and you've been sleeping in a stairwell and a bus station and you spoke to Miss Croft, and there's nothing to do? Art Levine: GOP-Style Democrats Slash DC Budget: Homeless Moms Already Given Bus Tokens, Not Shelter
Workers set about fixing the tacky decorations on lampposts as stunned onlookers enjoyed the summer sunshine. The Sun
I was too stunned to make an effort to piece together my disheveled appearance.
He was stunned at the vast amount of knick-knacks and souvenirs - of value to his mother but to no one else.
The wall being old, the bricks I held by gave way, just as I was taking a spring to get up; and down came I, and received such a blow upon my head, with one of the bricks, that it quite stunned me; and I broke my shins and my ancle besides, and beat off the heel of one of my shoes. Pamela
He was stunned at the vast amount of knick-knacks and souvenirs - of value to his mother but to no one else.
I was so stunned and momentarily befuddled it never even occurred to me to fire the second barrel.
She wears a dress of lavender and purples that blended so well together it stunned me.
Most people are speechless and uncomprehending, stunned by the violence that stabbed into their lives so suddenly.
He estimated a crowd of more than 1000 people who were stunned at the drummers, fire twirlers, fashion parades, dancers, puppet shows, a DJ, street performers and buskers.
Stunned zoo visitors watched as the big cat pounced, hooked the bird with a claw through its cage, then held it with his teeth. The Sun
In October, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, into orbit, Americans were stunned.
The Brooklyn boxer stunned Rangel with a solid left before knocking him out with a powerful right.
They were stunned by the view from the summit.
Another police officer offers to drive us and we sit in the back of the police car still not speaking, stunned and anxious. Times, Sunday Times
While he may have been completely stunned, it was an award thoroughly deserved.
Levi was stunned by the blow and reached up to rub his face, red from Wade's blow.
Desperately needed aid from around the world began arriving in quake-stunned Haiti on Thursday, while rescuers struggled to save the trapped and injured. Chaos in Haiti as rescue teams arrive
The invasion of South Korea by its communist neighbour in 1950 stunned the world and sparked three years of bitter conflict, which claimed more than two million lives.
The punch stunned me for a moment.
Senior industry executives have been stunned by how quickly the crisis has enveloped Detroit. Times, Sunday Times
She suffered a broken leg and facial injuries, but has made a remarkable recovery that her father says stunned her doctors.
Her smiles as we shyly greeted each other stunned me into delirious, weak-kneed awe. LOVE YOU MADLY
I was stunned and stayed in a prone position for a minute or so.
He brought his elbow up sharply into the Hythrun's face and then kicked the stunned mercenary's legs from under him. TREASON KEEP
The new mushroom dynamic has stunned amateur mycologists, by nature a gentle breed.
It wasn't just the rude awakening which stunned residents, but the fact that the road had been resurfaced just days before, following years of campaigning by the parish council.
I was just stunned by how the gaps in his answers didn't seem like he was thinking, but that he was poleaxed.
Researchers were recently stunned to discover that 100 pounds of a powerful antibiotic called ciprofloxacin was being dumped into a local stream antibiotics that could treat an entire city of 90,000 people every day. Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
When the congregation warbled in eight different keys into the third verse, I was stunned … and outraged. Lance Mannion:
His speedy recovery has stunned doctors but he will undergo a final medical test this morning before being released. The Sun
No one seemed to notice but my stunned boyfriend, who had apparently been under the illusion that he was dating a well-brought-up young lady, or at least a judicious one. Let Them Eat Osso Buco
I was stunned by how very 'booky' reading a novel on a Kindle is. Musings on Photography
Stunned, Sara stuttered a few times before saying, ‘What are you doing here?’
Details are sketchy but the lightening fast operation, lasting all of 5 hours, stunned France and the world.
Too stunned to react or notice whether his face was as casual and without regret as his words, I hiked on.
Her departure stunned the members and leadership. Christianity Today
Even some of the more hardened observers are stunned by the astronomical amounts of money that can be made.
She was more than a little stunned that this man, who had the virile charm to wind this nurse around his finger, had resorted to crudeness and anger. Western Man
The news has stunned war veterans in the city - and has sparked an urgent plea for more volunteers to come forward.
The impact of the ball had stunned her.
Later, critics were stunned by his apparent volte-face into peace-making.
That was two days before Intuit and Microsoft stunned the technology and banking industries by proposing their merger.
She lay on the floor hurt and stunned. The Sun
Too stunned to react or notice whether his face was as casual and without regret as his words, I hiked on.
He seemed stunned, as it were, and giddy; the earth on which he stood felt as if unsound, and quaking under his feet like the surface of a bog; and he had once or twice nearly fallen, though the path he trode was of firm greensward. The Abbot
I was stunned until I took a walk through the woods and found gallberries and palmetto berries everywhere.
One half inch closer and he would have been dead, killed by fragments of skull driven into his brain, but instead he staggered, stunned, and his vision was suddenly sheeted with scarlet as he twisted, fell, and heard the sword clang as it bounced on the rampart's stones. Sharpe's Siege
The waiter announced with the stunned air of a man imparting news of a bereavement that due to a problem with supplies, the girolle mushrooms on the menu were in fact morels.
It was undeniably dead. perhaps it had been stunned by a penalty kick from a crack centre-forward.
This film showed at the London Lesbian and Gay film festival this year to a rather uncrowded house, who left in stunned silence at the end.
We listened in stunned silence as she implored faith communities and faith leaders to become involved to end what she has termed "femicide" in the Congo. Archive 2008-11-01
AN auctioneer was stunned when a grass verge at the edge of a busy dual carriageway fetched 32,000. The Sun
Khan was in irrepressible form from the start, raining in fast and accurate punches from every angle, to leave the hapless Korean stunned.
You will be stunned to see that the right column is one thousand times longer than the left. Christianity Today
Stunned townsfolk were beginning to return to homes on the outskirts of the disaster zone as the impact of the horrific blast sank in. The Sun
He sat on the ring apron looking stunned and never appeared likely to beat the ten count of the Italian referee.
I am stunned by the reaction because when I was a Cub Scout between the ages of 8 and 10, we were told to hold hands with our buddies when walking in amusement parks and queuing for mass transport.
Baxter stunned critics and commentators after clawing his way back from eighth position after the first run.
She sat looking wan and slightly stunned. Times, Sunday Times
Arriving for a hastily convened press conference, he was momentarily stunned by how few journalists were there, before the seats quickly filled up. Times, Sunday Times
Galkina was stunned by the nerveless determination of her Chinese opponent.
I'm thrilled that Argentina has shown such compassion and common sense in overcoming the right-wing, largely hysterical and non-sensical Catholic onslaught against gay marriage, while at the same time stunned that the United States, who continually vaunts its supremacy on human rights and condemns other nations for abuses, allows people's equal protections to be simply voted away based on nothing but prejudice. K.J. Dwyer: Buenos Aires, I Do
Many cinema-goers were stunned by the film's violent and tragic end.
Why we like him: Stunned Man (2004) features a dizzyingly brilliant absurdist slapstick routine in which a poker-faced guy destroys his apartment, dives into the bathroom mirror and reappears through the door to begin the whole process afresh. Artist of the week 110: Julian Rosefeldt
Kortni sits back, stunned, pulling the car over to the shoulder of the freeway.
He had been stunned and, naturally, deeply upset.
He lies there, arms and legs akimbo, too stunned to move, to think, to cry.
Instead, he sat as stunned and uncomprehending as a wired hare. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
The news stunned her
But he insists that it was at the woman's instigation, and said he was ‘stunned, disgusted and embarrassed’ by what she did.
But there is a pressure on these Italian soldiers, as if they were men caryatides, with a great weight on their heads, making their brain hard, asleep, stunned. Twilight in Italy
Thorn's disrobing is interrupted by the spontaneous combustion of Bone’s hat, for Fone Bone has been watching in stunned silence from behind a nearby hill (pp. 54-55). The Vivisection of Bone, Part 1: Romancing the Bone
Some just stood there, their mouths agape, stunned by what the old woman had just said.
The announcement stunned the City. Times, Sunday Times
The Central Java team member was stunned 7-5 in the preliminary round of the bantamweight competition and promptly blamed lethargy and injury for the exit.
Last weekend, stunned listeners were treated to a plug for a piece by a former Supreme Court judge.
One by one, each one turned their defeated eyes upon the discouraged paramedics and stunned police officer that stood just on the opposite side of the doors.
He was stunned to discover cost overruns of at least $1 billion.
She shouted in rage as the stunned Arzenes fell to the floor, the computer in his arms falling with a crash.
During the Golden Globe beanfeasts in LA earlier this month, the one man every star queued to meet was the shy, slightly stunned Paul Rusesabagina, the true hero of the story.
NSA operative and Athena graduate Allison Gracelyn code name Delphi is stunned when she realizes she has been framed as a traitor. Disclosure- Nancy Holder « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
But this time they were stunned in the early stages of an oldfashioned cup tie. The Sun
It was high time; for, while the Disinherited Knight was pressing upon the Templar, Front-de-Boeuf had got nigh to him with his uplifted sword; but ere the blow could descend, the Sable Knight dealt a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the chamfron of the steed, and Front-de-Boeuf rolled on the ground, both horse and man equally stunned by the fury of the blow. Ivanhoe. A Romance
But these were used as a front to launder profits that stunned detectives. The Sun
Those that are wounded and stunned will be consumed by the swordfish at leisure, circling round any that start to sink.
I sat down stunned, recollecting the days that I had spent in the East not too long ago.
On deck perhaps a dozen gasping, half-drowned, and half-stunned wretches were rolling about or attempting to crawl into safety. THE HEATHEN
United left the pitch looking stunned and drained.
She was so stunned that she just stared into those strange, unblinking, coal-black eyes.
But these were used as a front to launder profits that stunned detectives. The Sun
Brazilian refereeing chief Armando Marques resigned yesterday, almost a week after the country was stunned by an alleged match-fixing scandal involving two senior referees.
Redfern stunned the crowd with a last-minute goal.
Meanwhile, Lyneham is in mourning for its dead ... the airbase community stunned by the tragedy.
I stood stunned and dripping, soaking the bathmat. Living Alone
I sat stunned, but as I looked at her troubled face, the signs of fear and extreme anxiety began to show from behind her mask.
He seemed stunned that the Princess Adrina had even heard of him, let alone wanted him to design her trousseau. TREASON KEEP
The first time I drove out of phoenix I was stunned by two things: the oppressive heat, and how quickly the city ended and the desert, with its saguaro cacti and brambly creosote, began. Mexican Standoff
But it was the manner of it which yet again stunned those in the packed stadium with disbelief. The Sun
The headmaster of a school in a pretty town on the south coast was stunned when he arrived from his inner-city academy. Times, Sunday Times
We walk around with our stunned brains and it doesn't quite register that the oil spill in the gulf is now carrying advertising. Reverend Billy: Oil Spills and Real Change
The news of his tragic death stunned everyone.
Carter was merely stunned by the reaction from the East; he was blown over backward by the reaction from the West.
One by one, live birds are hung by the feet on a moving line of hooks called shackles and mechanically stunned, decapitated, and scalded to remove the feathers.
The news anchorperson was speaking in a controlled yet incredulous manner totally stunned by the occurrence as he reported on it.
Many cinema-goers were stunned by the film's violent and tragic end.
He stunned colleagues and political opponents last week when he announced his decision to take his high-octane charm and permatan out of the spotlight to focus on being a husband and father.
He said the smell was caused by polecats, which have a natural pungent odour, and the dead bird had stunned itself the previous day when it escaped and flew into a window.
Stunned, he slowly made his way to the doorstep, sopping wet.
The other team seemed to have made a miraculous interception, because the coach suddenly looked stunned and confused. NO BODY
There was no disguising the stunned faces of the 24 players for whom every gut-wrenching hole had the atmosphere of the last in a major championship.
The singer alternates between stunned silence and logorrhea.
Up to 80 per cent of halal meat is from stunned animals. Times, Sunday Times
The figures underlined the scale of the recent increases in utility bills, which have stunned consumers. Times, Sunday Times
I was so stunned by what he'd said I had to collect myself before I could reply.

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