Sentence examples for left stumped from inspiring English sources

With the advent of DNA fingerprinting for timber, it may in future be illegal tree traders, rather than forestry authorities, who are left stumped.

Due to the conflicting fan opinion regarding the album, concertgoers would "boo the band for performing numbers from the record in concert", leaving Stump to describe touring in support of Folie as like "being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in Clandestine hoods".

Southern politicians adroitly read the political tea leaves, stumped for Goldwater and urged Southern Democrats to do the same.

But another question, about what he wanted to do with his life, left him stumped.

He said he felt liberated, but the old question of where do you see yourself in five years left him stumped.

The only time Long, left, was stumped all night came when he was asked to make an acceptance speech before lifting the trophy in his role as acting Saints captain in the absence of the injured Paul Sculthorpe.

– Look at the known correct answers of the items before and after the one(s) that's left you stumped.

Thousands of eyewitnesses have reported ball lightning over the centuries, but its origins have left scientists stumped.

In the spirit of collaboration, Sabia even includes a link to a document where viewers can correct any mistakes he might have made and help to identify the last holdouts that have left him stumped.

At one time or another most physicians have encountered a cardiac rhythm on telemetry, rhythm strip, or 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) that has frankly left them stumped.

We hypothesized that individual stumps left following stump harvesting would contain higher densities and species richness than in clear cuts without stump removal due to crowding of beetles into increasingly limited habitats.