How to Use gobsmacked in a Sentence
gobsmacked
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What Luhrmann saw left him gobsmacked.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
10 Feb. 2026
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Mouse, sitting a few rows up, was gobsmacked.
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Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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Then there were the makeup statements that left us simply gobsmacked.
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Staff Author,
InStyle,
11 Jan. 2026
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The hard part will be fending off the attention of gobsmacked friends at the party.
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Kathryn Streeter,
Southern Living,
29 May 2026
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The hard part will be fending off the attention of gobsmacked friends at the party.
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Kathryn Streeter,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
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Kerry looks gobsmacked, then frustrated that this is his job.
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Emma Soren,
Vulture,
12 Aug. 2025
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But The Perfect Neighbor left me gobsmacked.
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Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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This milestone Fourth of July, the celebrations will go on without the man who, as a gobsmacked boy, never wanted the fireworks to end.
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Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
3 July 2026
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Hill handed him $100, leaving Pawley gobsmacked.
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Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2026
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To have been chosen by such a high-profile royal once is amazing, but to have been supported by Prince Harry too left us completely gobsmacked and hugely humbled.
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Simon Perry,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Everyone was just staggered by events — gobsmacked — and there was near universal agreement that what was happening in Afghanistan was a fiasco of historic proportions.
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Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Mar. 2026
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Ray controls the gobsmacked Colin quietly, calculating the bare minimum of kindness required to have a house boy willing to cook dinner, tend to his Rottweiler and sleep on the floor.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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