STUPOR in a Sentence

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For STUPOR, below is one of 36 sentences:
After sitting in a stupor of bitter thoughts until midnight, he got suddenly from his chair and reached for his coat and gun.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUPOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stupor
 n.  state of reduced or suspended sensibility; daze; lack of awareness
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  It was out of this stupor of doubt that Mrs. Dawson's summons roused her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  They dance in monotonous measure, round after round, hour after hour, with eyes fixed upon vacancy, as if they were only half conscious, in a constantly growing stupor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  It has put a stupor upon every one who hears it, as well as upon the men who are playing it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  At night he was tied down, lest he should kick the covers off him, while the family lay in their stupor of exhaustion.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
5  At first he was like a wild beast that has glutted itself; he was in a dull stupor of satisfaction.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
6  Boy, I thank thee," exclaimed the old man, rousing himself from his stupor; "you have, for once, reminded Munro of his duty.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
7  I spent this in a sort of beast-like stupor, between sleep and wake, under some large tree.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  These faces expressed in their lines the deep stupor of the tired soldiers.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
9  He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  During this discourse, Prince John had gradually awakened from the stupor into which he had been thrown by the unexpected intelligence, and had been attentive to the conversation which passed betwixt his followers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  After sitting in a stupor of bitter thoughts until midnight, he got suddenly from his chair and reached for his coat and gun.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  Connie would come home from the blazing light of the lagoon in a kind of stupor, to find letters from home.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  She lived in the stupor of the light of the lagoon, the lapping saltiness of the water, the space, the emptiness, the nothingness: but health, health, complete stupor of health.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  She was in a sort of stupor of well-being.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  Then Thomasin, whose stupor of grief had been thrust off awhile by frantic action, applied a bottle of hartshorn to Clym's nostrils, having tried it in vain upon the other two.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
Example Sentence:
1  As the whisky took effect, he gradually fell into a drunken stupor.
2  The pain roused him from his drunken stupor.
3  In his stupor, the addict was unaware of the events taking place around him.