BOGGLE in a Sentence

Learn BOGGLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for BOGGLE, such as:

1. The sheer amount of data makes the mind boggle.
2. Just take a step back and boggle at those numbers.
3. So I have got his things in order, and knit heels into two pairs of the socks, for they were boggled out of shape with his queer darns.

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boggle
 v.  hesitate as if in fear or doubt; shy away or be overcome with fright or astonishment
Classic Sentence:
1  So I have got his things in order, and knit heels into two pairs of the socks, for they were boggled out of shape with his queer darns.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Example Sentence:
1  Just take a step back and boggle at those numbers.
2  The sheer amount of data makes the mind boggle.