rendered speechless
Example Sentences
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"As distribution chiefs, we're not often rendered speechless by a film's performance, but Barbillion has blown even our most optimistic predictions out of the water," said Jeff Goldstein, president of domestic distribution for Warner Bros.
From Reuters • Aug. 6, 2023
So when his mother saw the song in the movie for the first time, knowing all the moments that had inspired those very words, she was rendered speechless.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022
“She was rendered speechless by it. I still don’t know. She hasn’t given me a satisfactory review yet.”
From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2020
Cardi B was rendered speechless for perhaps the first time in her spirited career.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
