Example Sentences

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The only people who won’t be on his tail are those looking for a good action film — the stupefyingly sluggish “Kandahar” isn’t it.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

Rather stupefyingly, The Times printed the addresses of these newly defensible dwellings.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

However, the content of my job is stupefyingly boring, as in I cannot concentrate on it for more than about 10 minutes before my mind wanders.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

Yet in less than three years, he would learn to warp the Americana he collected into stupefyingly original work.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2017

It was a bit like sleeping in the engine room of Ladderal Mill—noisy beyond belief but stupefyingly rhythmic.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein