stupefy

in a sentence

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) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

They stand a moment, dead-faced, stupefied.  (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

His answer left me stupefied.  (source) Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008

I'm dead still, stupefied, like I myself have become a thing of clay.  (source) David Almond, Clay, 2005

It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Chastened by criticism of the stupefying length of October's Dedication Day ceremony, the fair's officers had kept the Opening Day program short and pledged to honor the timetable at all costs.†  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

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) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 2, 1840

The human child—so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.†  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

"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) George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945

They were originally destroyed using Stupefy ...†  (source) Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 2016

It took her time to realize that it was also a form of tenderness and it was then that she lost her calm and lived only for him, upset by the desire to sink into his stupefying odor of grease washed off by lye.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

Stupefies them first.†  (source) James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

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) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976