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

The small boy hesitated, plainly at a nonplus.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

Here was a nonplus, not without its comical side.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

The scholars were cogent reasoners, and a show of staves soon brought their opponents to a nonplus.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

Ah! there Roy could not answer him; he was at a nonplus; he was unable to say whether the codicil had been found or not.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.