flabbergasted
Example Sentences
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A master manipulator, he’s both a playwright and an actor, constructing scenes that might seem impossible to pull off, then delivering a virtuoso performance that leaves everyone flabbergasted by his success.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
Yet the news that inflation could be worse is hardly comforting for millions of Americans still flabbergasted at the prices of necessities like food, housing and insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
The doctor said he was “just flabbergasted with the allegations that don’t seem congruent with what i saw that day.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025
Schulz, who went through the IVF process with his wife, seemed genuinely flabbergasted the notoriously dishonest president had lied about this.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2025
When the teacher reports that Harold has not been turning in his homework, Ms. McAllister clearly is flabbergasted, but all she says is, “He did it at home.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
