How to Use stupor in a Sentence

stupor

noun

• He fell into a drunken stupor.
• The meeting with Il-nam shakes Gi-hun out of his stupor.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Oct. 2021
• The sunny day would have fit better in a grey day full of stupor.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• But there isn’t enough coffee in the world to jolt the filmmaker out of his stupor.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 June 2022
• Constand, who is gay, told police the pills left her in a stupor.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• Some of the drug users arrive there in a stupor, some unable to stay awake, some with open sores or wounds on their hands, arms, legs, heads.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune Well, 7 Mar. 2023
• The day that Kai prayed for death jolted Kimberly out of her stupor.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
• The jokesters’ aim was to drive their target to angry stupor for the enjoyment of fellow pranksters.
  — Stanislav Budnitsky, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022
• Travel, at its best, shakes us from the stupor of everyday life and returns us home again more alert and aware.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
• You are thankfully prodded out of your daydream stupor and now are on full alert.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• Who among us hasn’t basked for an hour or two in the self-congratulatory stupor of the like-minded?
  — Garret Keizer, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• Amid the sensual stupor, the prince meets fellow hero-in-training and soon-to-be-lover Afonso (André Cabral).
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• His drug use has sent him reeling between manias and stupors.
  — David Enrich, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• Gordy leaves his apartment in a drunken stupor and gets arrested for DUI.
  — Robert Croan, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2017
• Trillin was drifting into a stupor by noon, but Ms. Sheraton was planning not to miss a bite.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the segment that seemed to propel the audience from a gala-benefit stupor into a boogie frame of mind came toward the end of the evening.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• Here's an example: Early in the game, a poison has left Aiden in a helpless, fatal stupor.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
• The goal appeared to wake Argentina from its Russian stupor.
  — Matthew Futterman and Andrew Das, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Other insects will be chilled into a stupor for a journey up to Honduras.
  — Stephanie Nolen and Eleanor Lutz. Photography and Video By Federico Rios Escobar For The New York Times. Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• In her determination to get the hell out, Helly is the force of nature that begins to shake Mark out of his corporate stupor.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
• That same night, shortly after 11 p.m., King-Simpson called and said her father had stumbled up to her room in a stupor, barely able to breathe.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 25 Apr. 2020
• On their own, the crises around fake news and election interference may not have shaken us from our screentime stupor.
  — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2018
• Blood runs down their arms after removing syringes while others pass out on the pavement or stumble through the busy road in a stupor.
  — Megan Myers, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
• As the slump deepened during a calamitous six-game road trip, there was hope that a return home to the intersection of Montcalm and Brush would help the Tigers snap out of their stupor.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
• Did Franklin really fall off the stage in a drunken stupor during a Georgia concert?
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2021
• The debauchery grows as the alcohol flows, finding the group in a drunken stupor at the end of a banquet-style meal, some paired off as lovers, others dragged away, pants-less, by their shirts.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The world is filled with places to sun yourself into a blissful stupor—places nearby like the Bahamas, and places not so nearby, like Bora Bora.
  — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 9 Jan. 2018
• In the past eight years, private loan demand has been weak in an economy kept in a stupor by high taxes and an avalanche of regulations.
  — Phil Gramm and, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
• Gerda and Kay become an adult couple severed not by death but by trauma that freezes Kay into a mute stupor.
  — The Economist, 31 Dec. 2019
• Taking extremely high doses of these medications may lead to very slow, shallow breathing and stupor.
  — Sayaka Blickenderfer, Health, 16 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024