nonplus

Example Sentences

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He found cross-examinations mentally invigorating, soon learned that he could nonplus storming attorneys if he kept smiling no matter how galling their insinuations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here was a nonplus, not without its comical side.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

Though to distinguish beasts of prey A novice might nonplus; Yet from the Crocodile you may Tell the Hyena, thus: 'Tis the Hyena if it smile; If weeping, 'tis the Crocodile.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

The small boy hesitated, plainly at a nonplus.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

"Gertrude goes with me," I replied stoutly; for I thought Cousin John looked pleased, and Sir Guy was at a nonplus.

From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.