The word 'dumbstruck' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means to be so shocked or surprised that one is unable to speak or react. Example: She was left dumbstruck when the magician pulled a rabbit out of her hat. In this sentence, 'dumbstruck' describes the woman's state of being completely speechless and stunned by the magician's trick. It conveys a strong sense of surprise and amazement.
Before dumbstruck spectators, Mr Benzien stepped from his seat, crouched over a volunteer, and began to demonstrate.One member of the audience was Tony Yengeni, a black man whom Mr Benzien had once tortured for being a suspected terrorist.
DUMBSTRUCK: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF VENTRILOQUISM.By Steven Connor.Oxford University Press; 449 pages; $35 and £25TOWARDS the end of this most unexpected book Steven Connor announces that ventriloquism has had its day.
But Mr Nečas said that that if the Dalai Lama returned to power, the result would not be democratic rule in Tibet but would be a regime of "semi-feudal, theocratic character with strong authoritarian components".The premier's words left many dumbstruck.
For example, the party executive in one Toronto constituency previously held by Mr Chrétien's industry minister were dumbstruck when a Martin supporter showed up at the nomination meeting with 6,000 signatures.
(Returning from a place where human life is tossed around as casually as polonium in a London sushi bar, Bagehot was dumbstruck by a sign in a supermarket, next to the organic fruit counter, advising customers to wrap their grapes carefully because "Grapes on the floor can cause accidents").
According to the station's reporter who stood nearby, the president told his dumbstruck chaperons: "You really did not handle this well".
NIKOLAI GOGOL'S play "The Government Inspector" ends with a scene in which the bureaucrats who mistook a flimsy impostor for a high official from St Petersburg are dumbstruck when a messenger announces the arrival of the real inspector-general.
Buy from Amazon.co.ukON SUNDAY March 31st hundreds of millions of worshippers in the Christian West, including the new leaders of the Catholic and Anglican churches, will contemplate their founder's empty tomb: a mystery so great that according to one Gospel account, it left the women who came to anoint their Master's body dumbstruck with fear.
Only eight horses went to the post, and when the race was over, 43,416 people sat dumbstruck: Angle Light had scored a smashing upset, finishing ahead of Sham and four lengths in front of Secretariat.
"I'm absolutely dumbstruck that they would let anybody stand in the elections with that attitude," she said.
