Sample Sentences for
stupefy
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    I plucked leaves off the elephant ear plants and fanned my face, sat with my bare feet submerged in the trickling water, felt breezes lift off the river surface and sweep over me, and still everything about me was stunned and stupefied by the heat, everything except my heart.  (source)
    stupefied = made unable to think
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    "Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start! ... Did we not see for ourselves how he attempted — fortunately without success — to get us defeated and destroyed at the Battle of the Cowshed?" The animals were stupefied.  (source)
    stupefied = (so surprised they were) made unable to think
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    They stand a moment, dead-faced, stupefied.  (source)
    stupefied = made unable to think; or completely surprised
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    His answer left me stupefied.  (source)
    stupefied = made unable to think; or completely surprised
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    They were originally destroyed using Stupefy ...†  (source)
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    It's stupefying—the very best thing I've ever seen with these two eyes—but before I can unhook myself from the stone railing and go to her, she opens her mouth, leaps into the air, and starts to scream.†  (source)
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    The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.†  (source)
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    The human child—so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.†  (source)
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    But Amanda is still stunned and stupefied by the "ugly witch" so that she barely notices this occurrence.  (source)
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    There is not one of those women, Egyptian, Turkish, or Greek, whom here you call 'good women,' who do not know how, by means of chemistry, to stupefy a doctor, and in psychology to amaze a confessor.†  (source)
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    Her eccentricities were no longer provocative and the stupefying ease with which he had gotten and stayed between her legs had changed from the great good fortune he'd considered it, to annoyance at her refusal to make him hustle for it, work for it, do something difficult for it.†  (source)
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    Stupefies them first.†  (source)
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    Likewise, I could not be aware of the grotesque but now obvious paradox: that after Sunday School, as I stood blinking at the somber and ominous tabernacle across the street (my little brain groggy with a stupefyingly boring episode from the Book of Leviticus that had been force-fed me by a maidenly male bank teller named McGehee, whose own ancestors at the time of Moses were worhipping trees on the Isle of Skye and howling at the moon), I had just absorbed a chapter of the ancient, imperishable, ever-unfolding history of the very people whose house of prayer I was gazing upon with deep suspicion, along with a shivery hint of indefinable dread.†  (source)
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