STUN in a Sentence

stun

 v.  surprise greatly; amaze; make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow

1  The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.

Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV

2  He then gave him another blow on the head, just to stun him till he came back again.

Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III

3  See, I have not slept," said Villefort, showing his undisturbed bed; "grief does not stun me.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 104. Danglars Signature.

4  Scarlett's face did not change but her lips went white--like a person who has received a stunning blow without warning and who, in the first moments of shock, does not realize what has happened.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I

5  A swimming nausea compounded of hunger, sleeplessness, exhaustion and stunning blows came on suddenly and she gripped the carved roses under her hand.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

6  The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.

7  If the words had been lightning they could not have leaped with a more stunning suddenness from Huck's blanched lips.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

8  The effect of the present revelation was stunning; he trembled and was on the verge of apoplexy.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.

9  "A stunning blow from the big Greek lexicon, which an old fellow in a black gown fired at him," said Ned.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE

10  Some of the women were weeping with joy, but most looked too stunned to realize the heavy blows that had fallen upon them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

11  It was a ghastly trip home, with Aunt Pitty crying into her handkerchief, Melanie sitting erect and white and Scarlett slumped, stunned in the corner of the carriage.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI

12  And she was too stunned to cry or to speak.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

13  Now, as she looked at Rhett, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

14  He stepped abruptly down from the wagon and, as she watched him, stunned with bewilderment, he came around to her side of the wagon.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

15  The combined shock of the coming of the Yankees and her death had stunned him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV

1  A guard zapped him with the stun gun.

2  Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges.

3  The news should stun all of them.

4  The dress was absolutely plain, but quite stunning.

5  The finished effect was absolutely stunning.

6  The scene was stunning, and for a time engrossed all our attention.

7  Even from a distance the effect of his fox costume was stunning.

8  The audience was awed into silence by her stunning performance.

9  His speech in the Euro debate was hardly stunning.

10  His self portraits are perhaps the most stunning.

11  It was the most stunning surprise of the decade, and so profound was the sensation that it lifted the new hero up to the judicial one's altitude, and the school had two marvels to gaze upon in place of one.

12  A maverick in war and politics, Israel's Ariel Sharon reshaped the Middle East in a career marked by adventurism and disgrace, dramatic reversals and stunning rebounds.

13  Eurosceptic nationalists scored stunning victories in European Parliament elections in France and Britain on Sunday as critics of the European Union more than doubled their seats in a continent-wide protest vote against austerity and unemployment.

14  His hysterical laughter made everybody stunned.

15  The fall stunned me for a moment.