Example Sentences

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When you’re born and raised in the United States, American nationalism and English-language centrism are so deeply ingrained into the culture that watching an actor work in another tongue is dumbfounding.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

The situation is dumbfounding as it is horrifying.

From Washington Times • Sep. 19, 2018

It is dumbfounding to the Russians that it should be France that is now forcing them either to die or to return to Soviet Russia.

From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Graham, Stephen