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be thunderstruck
adjective
Astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
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You could show her one of the iPhones that Steve Jobs helped create, and she'd be thunderstruck.
All the oldtimers with the strange license plates — that boy will be thunderstruck… because he never realized — I am known!" A word to the wise is sufficient.
Seeing Paris through its churches — its "vast symphonies of stone," to paraphrase one of Victor Hugo's descriptions of his beloved Notre Dame — is to be thunderstruck.
If you've spent as much time as I have watching thousands of hours of soap operas, [laughter] you know what it means to be thunderstruck, which is something I take it to be closely related to being struck by lightning.
"If you read a true account of these rogues you would be thunderstruck," Stevenson writes.
Today we'd be thunderstruck that a person could own another as a slave.
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The family was thunderstruck.
I was thunderstruck.
"I was thunderstruck," Abramson says.
Like her he was thunderstruck.
"I was thunderstruck," he said.
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