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stupefaction

How to use stupefaction in a sentence

Others, holding to the side of the building, felt with stupefaction the boards totter beneath their touch.

A LOST HEROELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD AND HERBERT D. WARD

The bears growl in stupefaction and rage, and take deep breaths to begin again.

Mr. Wilding raised one eyebrow and looked aslant at Trenchard, whose weather-beaten face was suddenly agrin with stupefaction.

When he had, in some measure, recovered control over his reason, the first emotion was one of complete stupefaction.

The bourgeois looked in stupefaction at this reinforcement that was about to join the attacking party.

CHICOT THE JESTERALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

Average Jones stared from the door to the floored cabinet and back again in stupefaction.

AVERAGE JONESSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

All Paris knows the beauty of that young actress, and will therefore understand the stupefaction of the Southerner on seeing her.

And I stared at her, in utter stupefaction: and then, all at once I began to laugh.

And as I started, staring at him in stupefaction, he said with a laugh: Ha!

With utter stupefaction he saw an iron countenance, above which a stiff brush of wire hair projected ludicrously.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985