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Dumbstruck in a sentence
Dumbstruck meaning
So shocked as to be unable to speak.
Synonyms of Dumbstruck
Using Dumbstruck
- The main meaning on this page is: So shocked as to be unable to speak.
- Useful related words include: dumbfounded, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied.
- In the example corpus, dumbstruck often appears in combinations such as: dumbstruck as.
Context around Dumbstruck
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dumbstruck
- In this selection, "dumbstruck" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, left, themselves, stood, fool, viewer and visitors stand out and add context to how "dumbstruck" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include dumbstruck i shook and find themselves dumbstruck to have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dumbstruck" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dumbstruck
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
WTH,” one dumbstruck viewer wrote on X/Twitter. (8 words)
Diderot, to whom (says the story) all mathematics was gibberish, stood dumbstruck as peals of laughter erupted from the court. (20 words)
I never comment on other journalists,but this one on City 42 has left me dumbstruck with his insensitivity & lack of ethics. (22 words)
Elisa has to mime to a dumbstruck Zelda the next morning that her scaly new love is not, as he appears, flat-fronted down there, but rather there is an aperture from which an organ is extruded. (37 words)
At its best, the science fiction/fantasy/horror of the series did its strongest work in the minds of viewers left dumbstruck by a twist ending or unexpected detail that upended everything that had come before. (36 words)
Dumbstruck I shook my head, staring at her and imagining how much it hurt, knowing that there’s no way down this mountain range that’s easy and you just have to get through whatever happens. (36 words)
Example sentences (12)
But it’s the narrator who bears the brunt of it: There you go with your fancy lies / Leavin’ me lookin’ like a dumbstruck fool.
One of her first reactions was to go out, dumbstruck, into the street and hit her thighs repeatedly as she said, 'Dad's dead, dead's dad, dad's dead', again and again.
The Welsh defence set off sprinting when Ford shuffled a couple of inches to his left, and he stood there dumbstruck as they hacked the ball away off his tee for him.
WTH,” one dumbstruck viewer wrote on X/Twitter.
At its best, the science fiction/fantasy/horror of the series did its strongest work in the minds of viewers left dumbstruck by a twist ending or unexpected detail that upended everything that had come before.
Dumbstruck I shook my head, staring at her and imagining how much it hurt, knowing that there’s no way down this mountain range that’s easy and you just have to get through whatever happens.
I never comment on other journalists,but this one on City 42 has left me dumbstruck with his insensitivity & lack of ethics.
Moments later, Lawrence Juma was also thwarted by the woodwork while the dumbstruck visitors struggled to find penetration on the other end of the pitch.
Elisa has to mime to a dumbstruck Zelda the next morning that her scaly new love is not, as he appears, flat-fronted down there, but rather there is an aperture from which an organ is extruded.
No one watching Ronnie McCoury tear into his mandolin solos Wednesday — fingers flying across the frets while notes poured into the air at a rate any thrash-metalhead would envy — could be anything less than dumbstruck.
The audiences mostly comprise Icelanders from near and far, he says, but some foreign visitors—unsuspecting guests at Havarí’s hostel—find themselves dumbstruck to have stumbled upon such vibrant events this far from any city.
Diderot, to whom (says the story) all mathematics was gibberish, stood dumbstruck as peals of laughter erupted from the court.
Common combinations with dumbstruck
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dumbstruck as 2×