Sentence examples for were dumbfounded that from inspiring English sources

Waiters and other staffers were dumbfounded that some late August paychecks bounced.

German executives were dumbfounded that most of their American colleagues did not even have passports.

The sisters were dumbfounded that their mother, after being dragged about 100 feet by their injured father, managed to drive her own car to safety.

When my husband and I started renovating my father's house after he passed away, the plumber and electrician were dumbfounded that the house's pipes and electrical wiring hadn't caused a catastrophe -- duct tape was everywhere.

The Bergmanns were dumbfounded that in all that time, not a spadeful of contaminated soil had been removed from their property, and that all the remediation had entailed was the monitoring of wells and the bailing of contaminated ground water.

We were dumbfounded that the Secretary used Campbell in a speech that defended high stakes testing regimes.

"I am dumbfounded that we got to this point".

"I am dumbfounded that it hasn't happened before now.

He was dumbfounded that so many of his colleagues voted against the fiscal-cliff deal.

"He was dumbfounded that it kept tripping him up," a friend said.

"I was dumbfounded that the business community would not want the truth," he said.