How to Use stupefy in a Sentence

stupefy

verb
  • Even Adorno might have been stupefied.
    — Jon Raymond august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Dark times shade even darker, and yet through it all, in ways both uplifting and stupefying, life goes on.
    — Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Investors are stupefied by a week of whipsawing markets, with little relief in sight.
    — Jeffrey Marcus, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • News coverage can’t prepare you for the stupefying endlessness of the destruction, nor for the metallic stench that seeps in through closed windows.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Fresh juices, quality rums, pristine drinkmaking technique — the Cove stupefied with its faultless approach.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Chestnut, 36, is regarded, and rightly so, as the king of stupefying stomach-stuffing.
    — John Horgan, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • These diaries are the most stupefying documents in a stupefying œuvre.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The past proves stupefying, in fact, considering how Black people emerged out of the inhumane system of slavery and gained a semblance of equality.
    — Shantay Robinson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Clutter offers an antidote to the stupefying standardisation of so much of modern life.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Again with the stupefying inability to produce with runners in scoring position, underscored by leaving 16 men on base.
    — Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Eventually, our future mogul will be sitting on a stupefying fortune, all held in a USA, and all entirely exempt from income tax.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Modern Paris is an elegant monument to Haussmann’s profligacy; he was fired for spending stupefying sums of public money to force it up like winter tulips.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
  • 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
  • How will his writing team metabolize the stupefying scene at this year’s BAFTAs into his routine?
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • On view are a stupefying assemblage of paintings among the most celebrated from the Impressionist movement and Modernism more broadly.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Then the canvas was left to the inimitable and inevitable Messi, who at age 38 scored three goals in stupefying fashion (and nearly a fourth that was offside) on the way to a 3-0 victory.
    — Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
  • As attractive as the idea has been, various analog AI schemes have not delivered in a way that could really take a bite out of AI’s stupefying energy appetite.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
  • Starting with a tone-setting marvel early, Room contorted and unfurled himself to 15 saves — including several other stupefying ones.
    — Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
  • It’s been 25 years since Ulysse Nardin unveiled the Freak, with a stupefying seven-person parade a day before the 2001 Baselworld fair.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Miami Hurricanes are at home, while the entire state of Indiana – save for some in West Lafayette – is content to abandon their homes to enjoy this unexpectedly stupefying playoff march.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026

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