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 perhaps without its comical side.

From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

Mr. and Mrs. Accleton were at somewhat of a nonplus as to the most feasible means of procuring the attendance of Sally.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

My uncle turned from one to the other, completely at a nonplus, Rosalie in the meantime clinging to his breast and imploring him passionately to save her!

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

They were put to a nonplus, and summoned the Devil to their relief.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene