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

It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City.

From Time Magazine Archive

And nothing has happened to astound or flabbergast him, to send him sprawling with Cheyne-Stokes breathing.

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.