stupor
Example Sentences
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All this gives the affair a narcoleptic quality, where flashes of radiance are quickly overwhelmed by everything else as we’re put back into our stupor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
How much can a film criticize big tech’s spell over children when the long-running “Toy Story” franchise is similarly designed to lure its audience into a stupor, and for increasingly diminishing returns.
From Salon • Jan. 4, 2026
Ronan, better known as a painter in New York’s contemporary art world, chronicles a collection of still lives who jostle themselves out of an emotional stupor.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
Since then residents have been in some kind of stupor, dazed, angry and tired.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025
“Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce. We can do nothing with poor Madam Mina for a few moments till she recovers herself; I must wake him!”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing stupor
Grade 11, List 6
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