dumbfound

Example Sentences

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Any other result but a four or five nil win for the Gunners would be catastrophic for Arsenal and dumbfound us all.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2024

It will defy assumption after assumption, dazzle and dumbfound, stun and stir, swerve and swerve back almost as if cackling.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2022

Lavelle’s ability to dumbfound defenses will be crucial to the U.S. team’s play for the next four years and beyond.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2019

Like a telepathic infant swinging for the piñata with deathly precision, Chelsea has continued to dumbfound with its ability to overcome seemingly impossible tasks.

From New York Times • May 17, 2012

I felt that in such surroundings it were not difficult to dumbfound a wandering nomad with miracles, because Nature herself had prepared the setting for it.

From Beasts, Men and Gods by Ossendowski, Ferdinand