Sentence examples for fall stunned from inspiring English sources

If it were read in the open air, birds would fall stunned from the sky".

The critic Clive James once began a review of a Leonid Brezhnev biography by observing that it was so dull that "if it were read in the open air, birds would fall stunned from the sky".

When the Shanghai stock exchange composite index plunged from its high of 5,166 to just about 3,700 over the course of a few short weeks in June and early July – wiping out some $3tn worth of market value – its precipitous fall stunned the nation.

He flew into windows at least twice while trying to leave and fell stunned to the ground.

They get a little above the park bench, and the wren falls stunned to the ground, and Orville lands with the string tangled in one wing.

The pound's fall, which stunned investors, was its biggest ever one-day fall, and ranked with the reaction to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and Britain's exit in 1992 from the European exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday.

The accusations against Ghomeshi, which first emerged in fall 2014, stunned fans of the popular folk artist turned radio personality and his hugely popular program with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Q.

Around him, the once-thunderous Metrodome crowd had fallen into stunned silence.

As conference organisers broke news of the tragedy, the besuited audience gasped in disbelief, then fell into stunned silence.

Still, the shop floor fell into stunned silence one March afternoon when the president of the company read a brief statement as first-shift workers finished their day.

As word of the sentences spread, a crowd of protesters outside the courthouse howled angrily, and then seemed to fall into a stunned silence.