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How to use the word stunned in a Sentence?

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I had a moment of stunned silence, it was more as if my brain did not register what is going on to be truly honest. It was a moment of disbelief, I think.

Rudolf Erasmus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve talked to thousands of our Starbucks partners, i was shocked, stunned to hear the loneliness, the anxiety, the fracturing of trust in government, fracturing of trust in companies, fracturing of trust in families, the lack of hope in terms of opportunity.

Howard Schultz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the days and weeks after my own cataract surgery, I was stunned by how bright and beautiful and vivid the world was, but I was shocked by the idea that there are hundreds of millions, probably 200 million people around the world, who are blind or nearly blind from cataracts and who don’t have access to the surgery.

Jeff Levenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He lunged onto Mr. Salman Rushdie and started pummeling him with his hand, very quickly, i was completely stunned and shocked.

Stephen Davies

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am stunned that the chief doesn’t simply resign.

Dave Katz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We thought we knew Huma’s story — the woman behind the scenes, and then reluctantly in front of the camera when her own life hit the news. Then, we read her memoir and were stunned by her candor, generosity, warmth, intelligence, and the way that her childhood, faith and family have so authentically woven through her whole life.

Freida Pinto

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Renee and I are stunned and heartbroken to learn about the sudden passing of Tony Siragusa, tony Siragusa was Tony Siragusa clearly one of the most popular players in Ravens history. Tony’s larger-than-life personality made an enormous impact on our organization and throughout the Baltimore community.

Steve Bisciotti

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

[He] will be greatly missed by his coworkers and anyone who had the privilege of meeting him, …At this time, we are stunned and saddened and offer whatever support we can to John’s family. Boston Police Peer Support will be available to assist department members in need of emotional support.

Boston Police Department

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We have a lot of real experienced veterans and so we put together a team that got to the Eastern Conference finals and it was bitter, it was a bitter loss. The dragon hasn't actually left my body yet from that loss. I was stunned, I was frustrated, I was angry, I was all of those things for the last week and now I'm beginning to move on past all of that, so I haven't given that any thought at all.

Pat Riley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I definitely feel an obligation to finish this build. And so if we're three years into this build – then I don't want to do another three years of just building this team. I think we're in that window of internal improvement. We got a great, great, great player in Jimmy Butler, we know that, we have a lot of real experienced veterans and so we put together a team that got to the Eastern Conference finals and it was bitter, it was a bitter loss. The dragon hasn't actually left my body yet from that loss. I was stunned, I was frustrated, I was angry, I was all of those things for the last week and now I'm beginning to move on past all of that, so I haven't given that any thought at all.

Pat Riley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If there's one thing that surprised me about the president's State of the Union, it was the lack of connecting the fight for democracy and freedom abroad with the fight for democracy and freedom at home. Today's Bloody Sunday, i was stunned.

Chuck Todd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was stunned. I mean it was an easy kind of rhetorical move, let’s defend democracy abroad and secure democracy at home.

Eddie Glaude

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I went and met with one of my buddies who owns a series of nutrition supplement stores, and he was just like 'I don't know. I don't have words, you know, he says, I have a four-month-old daughter. What am I bringing her up into?' you know, and there's a numbness, stunned shock. And to be very candid with you, these people did not see it coming. I didn't see it coming.

Mark Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over the past year, Americans have watched stunned as a radical ideology spread through our country's elite institutions -- one that teaches America is an irredeemably racist nation founded by White supremacists.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I did call President Obama into my office and told President Obama President Obama should take a look at it. And President Obama was stunned because I was the first one that ever suggested that to President Obama, when President Obama was reelected,( that was) one of the most moving phone calls I've ever received because President Obama said, you know,' You're the reason I'm here,'.

Harry Reid

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They kind of stunned us a little bit, we missed a couple of shots that could have fell, then we passed up a couple of ones. That's kind of the formula to allow a team to get confident.

Tobias Harris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You start to' expect the unexpected' when exploring the deep sea, but I'm still stunned that we came upon the ancient tusk of a mammoth, our work examining this exciting discovery is just beginning and we look forward to sharing more information in the future.

Steven Haddock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While I’m somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I’m lucky as well, had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation.

Fox Business

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think parents across this country are going to be stunned to learn — stunned — that if they show up at a local school board meeting, where they have the right to vote, and you are attempting to intimidate them, you are attempting to silence them, you are attempting to interfere with their rights as parents and, yes, with their rights as voters, this is wrong. This is dangerous. And I cannot believe that an attorney general of the United States is engaging in this kind of conduct.

Joshua Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we had to do House Ways and Means Committee I would do House Ways and Means Committee, i mean that the idea that America would default on debt is so far removed from everything I've ever entertained or thought of since I've been here. I mean, I'm stunned that we even have these moments.

Richard Neal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I opened my share tracking app and saw it was at 9.4 cents, I was stunned, it just went bang, and I thought: ‘Well, what’s going on here? Is there something about my own company that I don’t know?’.

Director Peter Sullivan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think he's stunned by it. I think that's why he's been silent really for so long. He's lived in his own dream world and been successful at it these last four years, the coronavirus was one tragic reality that he couldn't deal with. His own election loss is, in his mind, another tragic reality now. So I think he's now trying to calibrate, if in fact I've lost, how do I maximize my brand in the days after the coming inauguration of Joe Biden ? And I think that's what's at stake now.

John Bolton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Saying that I was stunned is an understatement. I couldnt believe it was real. It took several days for the reality to set in that my mistake had paid off to the tune of $2 million!

The Dearborn Heights man

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was stunned in so many ways.

Gregory Dabice

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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