struck dumb
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Chastain and Nyong’o rumble with Diane Kruger, peer pressure Penélope Cruz and are struck dumb by Fan Bingbing, who saunters in halfway through to shake things up.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022
Mencken might have been struck dumb, ours is perhaps an apt moment for just such a reminder.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2018
Three generations of women were digitally struck dumb by one’s reference to a naughty schoolboy.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2017
But all at once there stood Before me one who somehow seemed struck dumb By the weight of a long silence.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013
At this last pronouncement, Joe sat at the table staring at his father as if struck dumb.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
