DUMB in a Sentence

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74 example sentences for DUMB, such as:

1. She was struck dumb for a moment.
2. He's been deaf and dumb since birth.
3. Everyone knew his dumb devotion to her.
4. They were struck dumb by some sort of shock.
5. The whole world was filled with dumb yearning.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUMB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dumb
 a.  mute; lacking the power of speech
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  It was a shy secret spot, full of the same dumb melancholy that Ethan felt in his heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  He laughed until he choked, peering at her in the shadows as she sat, stricken dumb, pressing her handkerchief to her mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  She was struck dumb for a moment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Everyone knew his dumb devotion to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  No; but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
6  Such were the sounds that now came hurtling from out the old man's tormented sleep, as if Starbuck's voice had caused the long dumb dream to speak.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
7  If by day they chanced to speak one word; by night, dumb men were both, so far as concerned the slightest verbal interchange.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
8  The two youngsters stayed dumb with amazement before what they considered to be an apparition.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
9  But they sat dumb, gazing back at him, panic-stricken; and a second later came another piercing scream.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  In the room he sank into a chair, trembling like a leaf, Marija still holding him, and the women staring at him in dumb, helpless fright.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
11  Jurgis stood stricken dumb, and his heart gave a leap like a mad thing.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
12  The death of the colt sits heavy on the heart of its owner," said the scout; "but it's a good sign to see a man account upon his dumb friends.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
13  The youth looking at him, could see that he, too, like that other one, was beginning to act dumb and animal-like.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
15  The whole world was filled with dumb yearning.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
Example Sentence:
1  Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand.
2  They begged him to explain, but he remained dumb.
3  She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image off.
4  He's been deaf and dumb since birth.
5  They were struck dumb by some sort of shock.
6  A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognize the pantomime of a marriage.
7  "Now, sir, what did you want to treat that poor dumb beast so, for?" "I done it out of pity for him -- because he hadn't any aunt."
8  Nest has made quick inroads in the consumer market by adding wireless intelligence to thermostats and other "dumb" devices.