(1) My mother stood there with her arms around us two kids and she cried, and I just stood there dumbfounded.
(2) But one of the girls responded, “The statue is the weight of the people’s allegiance for the Dear Leader.” The journalists were dumbfounded.
(3) Not pounds and pence, plans and policies, but people.” In a moment of arch-mischief, he thanked his dumbfounded tribe for their part in backing causes many of them still abhor: “It wasn’t just me who put social justice, equality for gay people, tackling climate change, and helping the world’s poorest at the centre of the Conservative party’s mission – we all did.” You could see them looking at one another, as if to say: did we?
(4) While other politicians decline to comment, the French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, says he is "dumbfounded" by Polanski's "absolutely dreadful" detention, declaring forcibly that it made "no sense" for the director to be "thrown to the lions for an ancient story, imprisoned while travelling to an event that was intending to honour him: caught, in short, in a trap".
(5) And many people were dumbfounded that Theresa May opted to keep Jeremy Hunt as health secretary .
(6) The fearful symmetry of his technique is dumbfounding.
(7) EU officials and diplomats reacted with outrage and the Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, appeared dumbfounded by the demand.
(8) He said he couldn't believe it and neither could I. I was dumbfounded, I couldn't understand it at all because only months before he'd said he was at the biggest club in the world and he wanted to stay for life.
(9) The authors report 40 hydatid cysts of rare localization selected during a period of 11 years and represent 10.75% on the whole of the hydatid cysts operated during the same period all localizations dumbfounded.
(10) I was dumbfounded and devastated, having had no idea they existed, and I have spent literally hundreds of hours scouring them, trying to find my father and brother.
(11) Vaxevanis told the Guardian he was "dumbfounded" at the news, and attributed the move to concerted efforts on the part of the judiciary to silence the press.
(12) The fate of Mujuru, who most expected to take over from President Mugabe, has clearly dumbfounded many political pundits.
(13) Which is why I was dumbfounded when he suddenly turned up at the hospital one evening in an ambulance, to ask me one final question.
(14) As Mike Myers stood dumbfounded beside him, the rapper extemporised on race, money and aid efforts , finishing with the now notorious accusation: "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
(15) Peverel, the controversial company that is the biggest manager of retirement homes in the UK, last week admitted to systematic price-fixing by a subsidiary, but campaigners were left dumbfounded after the company entirely escaped penalties and fines.
(16) And it broke my heart when I read that, after his arrest he said , “It made me feel like I wasn’t human” and “it made me feel like a criminal.” But as much as I am outraged at the treatment this young boy endured, I’m dumbfounded at the ignorance of the adults in his school including the police who literally cannot tell the difference between a clock, a bomb and a “fake bomb”, let alone the kind of kid who might bring any of the above.
(17) The idea was that Karadžić’s bodyguards, known as the Preventiva, would be dumbfounded and slow down their vehicle long enough for the Delta Force ambushers to fire a specially designed concussion grenade at the car doors to stun the passengers.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: UK can have greater role in Europe post-Brexit Senior mandarins remain dumbfounded by his appointment, pointing to his long record of undiplomatic remarks about vital UK allies ranging from Turkey to the US and Europe.
(19) Polanski was born in Paris to Polish parents and has French citizenship; France's culture minister Frédéric Mitterand said he was "dumbfounded" at the arrest, adding that he "strongly regrets that a new ordeal is being inflicted on someone who has already experienced so many of them".
(20) I was in the pub on Saturday talking to some non-gamer friends about the controversy, I explained the Xbox One restrictions to them and they were completely dumbfounded about why anyone would buy it.
Dumfound
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) He won the leadership with a bigger landslide than Blair acheived 21 years ago, swept to office by a tide of Corbynmania that has dumfounded everyone at Westminster.
(2) An unnamed but dumfounded Elysée adviser who was in an interview with Le Monde at the time, muttered that he'd been prepared for government crises but not "marital" ones.