stupefies in a sentence

Examples

1. Hawkins'behavior _ abusing boys at Anglican Church parishes around Tasmania state between 1974 and 1984, often using alcohol to stupefy them represented a " chilling litany of devious sexual abuse,"
2. Fish were sometimes taken by hand by stirring up the muddy bottom of a pool until they rose to the surface, or by placing the crushed leaves of poisonous plants in the water to stupefy them.
3. An anecdote concerning Bryullov appeared in Leo Tolstoy's essay " " Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves ? " " and later in the same author's essay " What Is Art ? ".
4. *"'Strongest Oppose "', and it frankly stupefies me that anyone is taking this seriously or wasting time on it .  talk ) 16 : 31, 11 May 2011 ( UTC)
5. Even nationalist firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who's known to like a drink, has a bad opinion of beer these days . It " stupefies people, they grow fat from this, " he said on Ekho Moskvy radio.
6. Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb " to dozen "  dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning " to stun, stupefy, daze " or " to make insensible, torpid, powerless ".
7. There's a newsgroup called alt . conspiracy in Usenet devoted to people who believe a worldwide conspiracy runs all governments, that chemicals in water supplies stupefy or kill scores of thousands every year, that a conquering army is already scuttling around in the United States in black helicopters getting set up to take us over.
8. The Dictionary of the Scots Language is most informative; in it, dander is the lemma that fits Christopher's example . ( " Donner " is only recorded as a spelling for the " daze, stupefy " meaning & mdash; interesting examples s . v . + suppl . . ) Wareh 04 : 13, 21 December 2006 ( UTC)
9. "Thus, the will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting : such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people,'til each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd ."
10. But while the social confusions of the Vietnam era gave rise to a golden age of filmmaking in America, many novelists turned, turtlelike, to solipsistic mappings of their own inner weather; in the'60s, they started feeling overwhelmed by a reality that, in Philip Roth's words, stupefies, sickens, infuriates and acts as " a kind of embarrassment to one's own meager imagination " _ and this, with nothing remotely approaching the shock of seeing New York's tallest buildings collapse on live television into a mass cemetery.