stupefy

Example Sentences

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They stupefy in equal measure, the Shchukin and Morozov collections, yet the two Vuitton Foundation shows have radically different tones in their final acts.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021

Knausgaard: accretion of detail so exhaustive as to mesmerise, or stupefy, the reader in the service of recapturing the vast psychic shifts of childhood becoming manhood.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2018

He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2012

So sequences like the old-school highlight in the fourth quarter Monday night stupefy the populace and become popular Vine clips.

From Washington Post

It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel