STUPEFY in a Sentence

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58 example sentences for STUPEFY, such as:

1. The stupefied mother did not stir.
2. She turned to him with a stupefied air.
3. Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison.
4. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied date of liberty.
5. Candide, dismayed and stupefied, soon lost sight of the vessel.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUPEFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stupefy
 v.  make senseless or dizzy; be mystery or bewildering to
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Candide, all stupefied, could not yet very well realise how he was a hero.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Candide, dismayed and stupefied, soon lost sight of the vessel.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
3  His ideas began to grow confused once more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
4  To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied date of liberty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
5  Thus far it was only an innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
6  "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thenardier, stupefied at not witnessing another sort of explosion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
7  She was happy; above all she was stupefied.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
8  The stupefied mother did not stir.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
9  At the first blush, the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
10  Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATIO...
11  She turned to him with a stupefied air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
12  He remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
13  Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was angry with him for this avowal.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
14  Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this enigmatical farewell.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
15  And Thenardier left the room, understanding nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in bank-bills.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence:
1  Disapproving of drugs in general, Laura refused to take sleeping pills or any other medicine that might stupefy her.