How to Use dumbstruck in a Sentence

dumbstruck

adjective

• The people in the courtroom were dumbstruck by his confession.
• Everyone was dumbstruck and didn’t want the night to end.
  — Richard Zoglin, Time, 23 July 2019
• The moms were heartbroken, quiet and dumbstruck as the bus pulled out of Richmond.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• My children, wide-eyed and dumbstruck at the thought of Mommy with a gun to her head, nodded earnestly.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• Officials at the agency were dumbstruck, according to some of those who spoke with The Post.
  — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2022
• Paul is clearly dumbstruck by how quickly he's found himself in bed with her.
  — Darla Murray, Cosmopolitan, 21 June 2016
• Paul is clearly dumbstruck by how quickly he's found himself in bed with her.
  — Darla Murray, Cosmopolitan, 16 June 2017
• And the stadium, after all that noise, after all those songs, after all those dreams, stood silent, dumbstruck, and stared straight back.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2021
• Now, in a police training classroom, Christopher was dumbstruck.
  — Isabel Seliger, ProPublica, 29 May 2021
• That race left plenty of people dumbstruck or skeptical.
  — Dathan Ritzenhein, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2019
• The other hitters taking swings that day, a combination of pros and amateurs, were dumbstruck.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
• These structures are magnificently built, to the point that an attempt to conceive how they were crafted only leaves us dumbstruck.
  — Cian Maheer, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• Conduct that would have had conservatives up in arms had it been exhibited by our political opponents now had us dumbstruck.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• Watching him graduate in a ceremony at Camp Lejeune, his family members were dumbstruck.
  — Aaron Gell, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024