Example Sentences

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When the 55-year-old New Jersey chiropractor looks at his current balance, he is stupefied.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

Zimmerman, 23, is boisterous and amiable, openhearted and still a little stupefied by it all.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

Levin was about to ask which one of the workers discovered the arm, but the slow revelation of the landfill’s awfulness stupefied him as the gate groaned apart.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2022

The Iger restoration has an escape-from-Elba cast to it, in which even stupefied competitors have to acknowledge the great conqueror’s reappearance.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen