How to Use stupefy in a Sentence

stupefy

verb

• The killing and destruction in Syria, of course, has stupefied much of the world over the past five years.
  — Anne Barnard and Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2016
• But in 1981, the Lakers’ verdict stupefies Westhead, who doesn’t see his exit coming even as the team’s marquee name turns against him.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• Trout has won it twice over the last five years, and his numbers are just stupefying enough to water down the generational talents that sit just below him on the list of the game’s top players.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2019
• His shaggy gold locks and handsome face stupefy a writer accustomed to having all her desires in check and on schedule.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• Not long after the bell sounded, Mr. Inoki flung himself to the mat and proceeded to crawl and kick Ali, a strategy that appeared to stupefy his opponent.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
• In contrast with many histories of the war, Overy eschews the drama of great tank battles and instead conveys the stupefying loss of nearly all the tanks produced by the combatants.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
• Chestnut, 36, is regarded, and rightly so, as the king of stupefying stomach-stuffing.
  — John Horgan, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
• The technologies' outcome, like the number of stars, is also stupefying: The Mesopotamians might have been off by a finger or so held at arm's length, maybe a degree of arc, and Hipparchus was off by about half a degree, or 30 arc minutes.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• This is a general problem with Fritzsche’s approach as applied to the East: Death came quickly, and in stupefying numbers, and to people who did not speak the Western languages in which the history of the war is largely written.
  — Timothy Snyder, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
• The show draws its edge from a poignant writing that doesn’t shy away from the complexities that dating in the Tinder era implies, adding shades of grey to prickly topics that are often dealt with stupefying simplicity.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
• Hardly forgotten but still stupefying amid all of Toronto's celebrations was the key performance that allowed the club to clinch its Shield on Saturday: A hat trick?
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• The watching world had been stupefied by trials in Moscow when foremost Communists pleaded guilty to crimes of treason they could not possibly have committed.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• In an episode of Marc Maron’s podcast that underlined how far the ground had shifted (and moved the ground even farther), Wong whipped out a breast pump during her interview and proceeded to stupefy the famous conversationalist.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 22 May 2018
• Think of his food as Nouveau Escoffier—fresher, livelier, and more stimulating than the traditional cream-laden constructions that glorified, and at the same time stupefied, the French table for centuries.
  — Alan Richman, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2017
• These diaries are the most stupefying documents in a stupefying œuvre.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The larger and more populated Grand Bahama Island also took a direct hit from Dorian, leaving some areas destroyed and survivors stupefied.
  — Kirk Semple, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• Since the Doolittle Report, we have been dulled or stupefied into docile acceptance of the de facto annihilation of the Fourth Amendment by grossly inflated fears of crime, foreign aggression or international terrorism.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2024
• Between the Chiefs’ inexplicable mid-season clunkers and their stupefying postseason history of follies and futility, no one who follows this franchise could assume a diabolical trap door wasn’t waiting to spring open in the playoffs.
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 6 Jan. 2018
• Their enemies were the forces of cynicism and indifference that Wallace depicted in Infinite Jest, set in a near-future America stupefied by consumerism, mass entertainment, and addictive substances.
  — Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• The transition was less culturally shocking than stupefying.
  — Kenny Herzog, Esquire, 25 Sep. 2015
• Trifonov dispatches all of it with stupefying effortlessness, in the process transforming this ostensibly bravura music into something elegant and rarefied, almost French.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024