Sentence examples for knocked for a loop from inspiring English sources

The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, was right to urge Democrats on Sunday not to be "knocked for a loop" by the Republican feeding frenzy.

THE glut of high school players being drafted by N.B.A. teams means, to many, that college basketball is on the ropes, knocked for a loop, kicked in the slats.

Although knocked for a loop by widowhood in 2002 after a happy 42-year marriage to the legendary lyricist Adolph Green, she is still something of a coquette beneath that caramel pageboy.

Knowing all of that, a listener could still be knocked for a loop by the feat that the young players of the New Juilliard Ensemble pulled off during a concert in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at the Juilliard School on Thursday night.

That we, as a society, once again have the energy to protest and dissent, is actually a hopeful sign that after being knocked for a loop in recent years we're finding our footing anew.

Knocked me for a loop".

Then came two devastating earthquakes that claimed nearly 20,000 lives and knocked tourism for a loop.

"The Eighteenth Amendment sort of knocked it for a loop," Michael Kelly, a Party historian, said.

It had been 10 years since food poisoning knocked me for a loop.

"This whole Doug business has really knocked me for a loop," she replies.

Klitschko connected on 104 power punches compared with Mercer's 5, and that knocked Mercer for a loop.