Sentence examples for dumfounded from inspiring English sources

When the imperious Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel visited Manchester in 1825, he was dumfounded by the ruthless efficiency of Manchester's factories.

Some of the women in her work look rather dumfounded, as though they'd expected to sit for an ordinary portrait and ended up in some Surrealist nightmare.

A cruise newbie, Ms. Brown easily got seasick and was dumfounded by things like preset dining times.

Jameelah's parents were dumfounded by her zigzagging fixations and flirtations -- first with Holocaust photographs, then Palestinian suffering, then a Zionist youth group and, ultimately, fundamentalist Islam.

The capacity crowd, which had given the Irishman a great ovation when he climbed into the ring, was too dumfounded at the sudden end to give vent to their feelings.

An unnamed but dumfounded Elysée adviser who was in an interview with Le Monde at the time, muttered that he'd been prepared for government crises but not "marital" ones.

The former newsreader was dumfounded and amused.

He won the leadership with a bigger landslide than Blair acheived 21 years ago, swept to office by a tide of Corbynmania that has dumfounded everyone at Westminster.

As a result, at the press screening, British critics alone laughed on cue, leaving their foreign colleagues dumfounded: they knew they had missed something, but didn't know what.

Most of the Russian lawyers are in uniform, and those that are and those that are not are alike in dumfounding the court by their use of legal procedure.

The things Hazzauna told Alonna were dumfounding.