stupefies in a sentence
Examples
- According to author John Leland, the object of the game is to stupefy and daze one's opponents with swift and skillful speech.
- The foliage is toxic to animals, and the crushed plants were used by Native Americans to stupefy fish and make them easy to catch.
- Restaurants _ in their relentless quest to stupefy their guests with excess _ pour on the cream when a touch is all that's needed.
- "It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's own meager imagination.
- They live in the present and for the future, while we continue to dream the dreams of the past and to stupefy ourselves with its fading glory.
- From the foibles of Miracle Airlines to the weird souvenirs that stupefy customs inspectors, the show makes getting there half the fun _ if the trip is on a stage.
- I'll scare the viewers with the prospect of Bush, backward economics and back-alley abortions, and I'll stupefy my enemies with great globs of gratitude.
- But Slovenska Republika, the government mouthpiece, printed a second-page article headlined " Goebbels-like nightmare stupefies Bratislava square, " referring to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
- Naively assuming that the lure of being a mere part of the Olympics would be intoxicating enough to stupefy even the sharpest business person, ACOG offered music promoters insulting terms for staging the concerts.
- Murnau becomes a filmmaker; he earns money and becomes famous, written about in the journals, even attacked by the left-wing press for making a spectacle designed to stupefy the working class.