flabbergast

Example Sentences

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Though I generally stuck to the main questline and sidequests, the optional tombs that I sampled were diverting puzzle boxes that sometimes stumped me but didn’t flabbergast me.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018

Sections on the possibility of artificial consciousness would flabbergast even Philip K. Dick.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018

A feature on jargon in "soccer" - the American terms that leave Brits reeling and the British terms that flabbergast Americans - generated a huge response from readers.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2013

But her statements flabbergast a number of her former colleagues at the University of Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then quit your flabbergast, and talk in plain English.

From Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World by Optic, Oliver