Sentence examples for left dumbfounded from inspiring English sources
"left dumbfounded" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to be stunned or shocked to the point of being unable to speak or react. Example: John was left dumbfounded when he found out he had won the lottery. He had no idea how to respond and just stood there with his mouth wide open.
But pity the poor soul who was left dumbfounded after a visit to Westminster: "Travelled all the way from Macclesfield to see Big Ben, but couldn't find him".
But across the Nile to the west near Cairo University, where several thousand of Mr Morsi's supporters have been gathering for two days, protesters were left dumbfounded by the announcement.
As the camera rambles around ground zero, a surreal moonscape of ash and stories-high destruction where most workers wear masks, you try to take it in but are still left dumbfounded.
When I pointed out to a Republican congressman that, far from gaining the upper hand in Europe, Blair is in danger of marginalising British influence because of his ambivalence towards the euro and his reluctance to take on the British Europhobes in the debate about the constitutional future of Europe, he was left dumbfounded.
I was left dumbfounded by the whole experience.
I've seen it myself, and yes, the fact that I left dumbfounded and disturbed adds weight to the Exorcist-ey comparison above.
The near-instantaneous swings left brokers dumbfounded.
Gov. George W. Bush's speech after he was declared the victor in Florida left me dumbfounded.
The difference in cultures left him dumbfounded: "Where I came from, you got a room in a motel, spent ten hours making a lavish and possibly irredeemable mess of it, and left early the next morning," he wrote.
His answer left me dumbfounded.
What I saw left me dumbfounded.
