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 is the question indeed, that would have driven the whole world to a nonplus, if once the majesty and holiness of God had been seen.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Peter was puzzled, and scratched his ear like a man at a nonplus.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

Here was a nonplus, not perhaps without its comical side.

From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green

The objection is therefore nothing more or less than the very ancient and famous logical fallacy with which the Greek sophists used to nonplus their antagonists.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John