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

One month after One Day arrived on Netflix, Nicholls still seems somewhat stupefied by the reaction.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2024

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

We stared in somewhat stupefied awe at toy trains chugging around sugar-snow-dusted mini-Swiss Alps under flying Santa sleighs and traded longings.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams