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

She proceeded to flabbergast the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association by refusing to play her semi-final match on Sunday.

From Time Magazine Archive

In forests where never the ironbark grew, When Jim is at work, it would flabbergast you To see how the ironbarks dwindle.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry