Sentence examples for stumped so from inspiring English sources

His mother was stumped; so was I.

Doctors were stumped, so Karel, the friend, consulted a psychiatrist.

A boy appeared stumped so she sent him over to the "Word Wall," where brightly hued index cards display words from A to Z.

But the encrypted notes have the F.B.I. stumped — so stumped that this week, after years of trying to decipher them, it posted what amounted to a public request for help on its Web site.

Two years ago, I asked Elizabeth Loder, who's in charge of the program, if I could join her at the clinic to see how she and her colleagues helped people whose problems had stumped so many others.

Solutions to 2013 International Mathematical Olympiad Problem 6 Our second challenge this week was the problem that stumped so many at this year's IMO — Problem 6. Numberplay regular Richardo Ech laid out the solution this way: One way to generate all beautiful labelings on {0,…,n} is as follows: Let (x,y) be a pair such that n > y > x, gcd x,y) = 1, and N = x + y >= n.

In a retrospective mood, staffers said that, as Obama told me, Clinton would have been an "excellent" President, but they also voiced some dismay with her campaign: dismay that she had seemed to stump so listlessly, if at all, in the Rust Belt; dismay that the Clinton family's undeniable taste for money could not be erased by good works; dismay that she was such a middling retail politician.

But now, Hughes is stumped, and so are the Yankees.

One translation stumped them, so they simply avoided it.

Tennis scores use the sequence love, 15, 30, 40, and game; cricketers verbally appeal to the umpire when a batsman may be out by calling "How's that?" and the ways of being out are designated by stereotypes, "run out," "leg before wicket," "stumped," and so forth.

The ball was just clipping leg stump, so umpire's call prevails.