Sentence examples for dumbfound from inspiring English sources

No, she says now, in an assertion that would dumbfound a lexicographer: to "submit" means to "respect".

Hence Britons, judged by GNP, are probably still about 14% ahead.However you look at them, the figures dumbfound most Ulster Protestants, for whom it was long an article of faith that people in "the republic" got more on the dole in Britain than they did by staying at home to "dig potatoes".

Jay lives to dumbfound like any magician, only with a passion that extends backward in time and outward into remote regions of the recherché.

Like a telepathic infant swinging for the piñata with deathly precision, Chelsea has continued to dumbfound with its ability to overcome seemingly impossible tasks.

But as disheartening as this reversal was, he confesses that it didn't exactly dumbfound him.

This is a declaration that will dumbfound boxing fans, more than half a million of whom paid £14.95 to watch his challenge for Haye's WBA world title on Sky Box Office.

Fashion magazines, these days, are so agog at youthfulness, and at the eternal appeal of the ephemeral, that readers could be forgiven for believing that the girls will never grow old; an Irving Penn fashion shoot, however, scratches away at an unthinkable taboo, and leaves us with the twilit — and, to commercial advertisers, dumbfounding — thought that even models are mortal.

As an exercise in crisis management, it is potentially disastrous — and, to the rest of the world, dumbfounding.

" Cohen was accompanied at the St . Petersburgscreening by Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for the film's screenplay, and Gus Van Sant, its director, who told me that Russia was "dumbfounding, hard to figure out," and that people seemed forced into "leading double lives".

Call it progress or metastasizing, what we have done as a race, a species or a civilization is dumbfounding.

The process imparts a texture and depth of flavor that is dumbfounding.