stunner

Example Sentences

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May 11 was a stunner: Seven of the top 10 songs on the platform were more than two years old.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The Hoosiers are Big Ten supremes after a 13-10 stunner of No. 1 Ohio State in Saturday’s conference championship in Indianapolis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

The emotion bursting out of the two of them hit like Kieran Tierney's stunner.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

Netflix has four movies arriving during the awards season window — the meditative stunner “Train Dreams,” Katherine Bigelow’s riveting, ticking-clock thriller “A House of Dynamite,” the George Clooney meta-charmer “Jay Kelly” and “Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

The stunner has a pneumatic-powered ‘gun’ that fires a steel bolt about seven inches long and the diameter of a fat pencil.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan