nonplussedin a sentence
- She was nonplussed by the bluntness of the question.
- "You wait," he told his nonplussed wife.† (source)
- Completely nonplussed, Harry said nothing.† (source)
- August opened the envelope, then looked up, nonplussed.† (source)
- He looked nonplussed.† (source)
- Kohler looked nonplussed.† (source)
- The guy looks nonplussed.† (source)
- Kit was nonplussed.† (source)
- He seemed nonplussed.† (source)
- Since Hyperion was explored four centuries ago, the Core has been concerned and nonplussed.† (source)
- Simmon looked nonplussed.† (source)
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- Skaaiat frowned, nonplussed.† (source)
- I was puzzled, nonplussed, and groping in the dark.† (source)
- Ullman looked rather nonplussed, which did Jack a world of good.† (source)
- I thought you said Snow Crash was a drug," Hiro says, now totally nonplussed.† (source)
- I believe nonplussed is the word for her expression.† (source)
- And with a cheery wink, she strolled off, leaving Eragon blinking and nonplussed.† (source)
- He seemed nonplussed.† (source)
- "I sure could use some lumber for my front porch," he said, nonplused.† (source)
- Mundin is nonplussed at our lack of proper titillation.† (source)
- Dexter just looked at him, completely nonplussed, as if he'd just given the weather report.† (source)
- JOHNSON (Nonplussed) You know, me and you ain't never agreed about some things, Lena Younger.† (source)
- Brown, which is used to dealing with real celebrities, like John Kennedy Jr., remained nonplussed, and by senior year Cedric's days were returning to their pedestrian collegiate rhythm.† (source)
- He had always been nonplused by Gus's witticisms.† (source)
- Abigail, accustomed to a cottage of seven rooms, was nonplussed.† (source)
- Woundwort was nonplused.† (source)
- Once again I was nonplussed by my flock's ability to completely put aside the fact that we were fighting for our lives.† (source)
- Only Bug was nonplussed.† (source)
- When the train pulled in, she swooped forward to greet the nonplussed Ira, John, and Rene as they alighted.† (source)
- The smee flipped about to address the nonplussed faun.† (source)
- Arnott mentioned nonplussed, meaning confused, but now used by some Americans to mean unperturbed.† (source)
- Eugenides continued to look nonplussed, and Eddis nodded her head.† (source)
- As I said before, at first almost everyone was sort of nonplussed.† (source)
- De Klerk was again nonplused.† (source)
- The clerk was nonplussed.† (source)
- The chief science officer of Aten Mining Corporation, it seemed to Vernon Tyler, Chairman of the Board, was a bit nonplussed.† (source)
- Captain Ono himself seemed nonplussed.† (source)
- They recoil nonplussed, his voice calms.† (source)
- Kooa seemed nonplussed by his remarkable behavior.† (source)
- KELLER [NONPLUSSED]: Then—do I understand you—propose—† (source)
- The fact that his appeal had failed to register first time nonplussed him for a moment.† (source)
- You sent him back:' the secretary, nonplussed, answered me.† (source)
- ALL TOGETHER: [except for JACQUES, who is nonplussed] Grandfather is dead, long live grandfather.† (source)
- 'What d'you mean, I'm not brave when I'm in bed?' said Harry, completely nonplussed.† (source)
- "Yes, of course," said Harry, slightly nonplussed.† (source)
- I spoke the long string of syllables, which left Seivarden nonplussed.† (source)
- Perplexed, Harry looked to Hermione for help, but she shook her head, apparently as nonplussed as he was.† (source)
- Cedric looked nonplussed.† (source)
- She looked nonplussed.† (source)
- Utterly nonplussed, he looked around at the others, who were now laughing at the expression on Ron's face and at the ludicrously prolonged laughter of Luna Lovegood, who was rocking backwards and forwards, clutching her sides.† (source)
- Now Tyrion truly was nonplussed.† (source)
- Harry gazed, nonplussed, at Dumbledore, then around at the silently watchful crowd, then back at Dumbledore.† (source)
- He seemed nonplussed.† (source)
- Robb looked nonplussed.† (source)
- I was nonplussed.† (source)
- Varys reined up, nonplussed.† (source)
- Phaedrus' argument for the abolition of the degree-and— grading system produced a nonplussed or negative reaction in all but a few students at first, since it seemed, on first judgment, to destroy the whole University system.† (source)
- I was nonplussed.† (source)
- Silence for a moment, except for HELEN'S noises as she struggles to get loose; the KELLERS are a bit nonplussed, and ANNIE is too darkly intent on HELEN'S manners to have any thoughts now of her own.† (source)
- Arobin appeared nonplused, and asked Edna if there were any one else she cared to ask.† (source)
- She was nonplussed at the possibility of the errand being different from what she had thought.† (source)
- Hare was nonplussed at the roar of laughter from the Mormons.† (source)
- They were now absolutely nonplussed by the singular character of American cowboys.† (source)
- "I'm so glad to see you," said Carrie, pleased and yet nonplussed.† (source)
- No, they are nonplussed in all sincerity.† (source)
- But, having nonplussed his subordinate, Matvy Ilyitch paid him no further attention.† (source)
- But he did not have it in him to be angry with the love-master, and when that god elected to laugh at him in a good-natured, bantering way, he was nonplussed.† (source)
- They would stand nonplussed for a while, exchanging in fierce whispers all the infamous names they could call to mind, and go at it again.† (source)
- At that question unintentionally touching on a spiritual sphere wholly obscure to Billy's thoughts, he was nonplussed, evincing a confusion indeed that some observers, such as can readily be imagined, would have construed into involuntary evidence of hidden guilt.† (source)
- And if she found it amusing that the nonplussed visitor should not have known, beforehand, that we had our luncheon an hour earlier on Saturday, it was still more irresistibly funny that my father himself (fully as she sympathised, from the bottom of her heart, with the rigid chauvinism which prompted him) should never have dreamed that the barbarian could fail to be aware of so simple a matter, and so had replied, with no further enlightenment of the other's surprise at seeing us already in the dining-room: "You see, it's Saturday."† (source)
- The Colonel's wrath, under circumstances where almost any Texan would have been cool, nonplussed Duane, and he put it down to a choleric temperament.† (source)
- Jurgis hesitated a moment, nonplussed.† (source)
- Well, suppose it was?" returned Jett, nonplussed at this remark from the habitually unobserving Catlee.† (source)
- There was no doubt that this bold move on the part of the enemy had been wholly unexpected, as far as he was concerned: and the daring impudence of it completely nonplussed him for the moment.† (source)
- The bandit appeared nonplussed.† (source)
- As he was confronted by the fact it nonplussed him somewhat, and he became thoughtful, with lowered head.† (source)
- Stepan Arkadyevitch felt completely nonplussed by the strange talk which he was hearing for the first time.† (source)
- "That's a pity, now, Josh," said Raffles, affecting to scratch his head and wrinkle his brows upward as if he were nonplussed.† (source)
- Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.† (source)
- Our higher officials are fond as a rule of nonplussing their subordinates; the methods to which they have recourse to attain that end are rather various.† (source)
- By the way: facing the wall, such gentlemen—that is, the "direct" persons and men of action—are genuinely nonplussed† (source)
- And I am the more persuaded of that suspicion, if one can call it so, by the fact that if you take, for instance, the antithesis of the normal man, that is, the man of acute consciousness, who has come, of course, not out of the lap of nature but out of a retort (this is almost mysticism, gentlemen, but I suspect this, too), this retort-made man is sometimes so nonplussed in the presence of his antithesis that with all his exaggerated consciousness he genuinely thinks of himself as a mouse and not a man.† (source)
- I stood nonplussed on the balcony for a moment, fifteen leering faces flickering out of the firelit shadows at me.† (source)
- For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.† (source)
- For myself, I laugh at these signs of lust; It doesn't please me at all to grow nonplussed.† (source)
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