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Example sentences for "stun"

Lexicographically close words:
stumpage; stumped; stumping; stumps; stumpy; stung; stunk; stunned; stunner; stunning
  1. To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.

  2. To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.

  3. Wal, now, I wish I could, Lem, but my hoss is stun lame.

  4. Then, you see, I could ride in my carriage, live in a big house with a free stun frunt, drive a fast team, and drink as much gin and sugar as I wanted.

  5. Why, this is enough to stun a Christian, with your Hebrew, and your Greek, and such like Latin.

  6. No, if we stun him we can go off with the nugget, and then make our way to Melbourne, where we can get rid of it quietly.

  7. Of course there was a risk, for he knew his wife was a determined woman; still, while she was driving in the darkness down the hill, if he took her by surprise he would be able to stun her with a blow and get possession of the nugget.

  8. We'll merely stun them with the electric bullets, but the noise of Rad's gun will help some.

  9. Roused from my stun at the first sight of a danger not foreseen by the mind I had steeled against far rarer portents of Nature, I cared no more for the lamps and the circle.

  10. He argued that the delay in firing was not intentional, therefore not criminal,--the effect of the stun which the wound in the temple had occasioned.

  11. The morning papers, which to-day carried a news story that promised to shock and stun the entire community, were not yet distributed.

  12. This totally unexpected acquiescence on the part of Gramont seemed to stun Chacherre into inaction.

  13. Beau rolled over and came up pulling from the ruffles of his shirt bosom a derringer I knew was some other weapon in disguise--a stun gun or even an Atropos.

  14. She moved a hand threateningly toward the manual controls of the stun beam.

  15. If he made any fast move, they would cut him down with a stun beam before he could get two feet.

  16. It carries an electric battery in the back of its head, and a big one can give a shock which will stun a strong man.

  17. I'll set this one to go off half-way down, and the shock will stun every living thing in the water for a couple of hundred feet around.

  18. You know Bob, a great big man, eighteen stun if he's an ounce.

  19. The 'orse won in a canter: they clapped eight stun on him for the Cambridgeshire.

  20. We stopped stun still and talked quite a spell about different things, our health, the relations and so forth.

  21. The market here in Bombay wuz the finest I ever see; it has a beautiful flower garden and park attached to it, and little rills of clear water run through the stun gutters.

  22. On top of the hull thing stood a rarin' angry brute, illustratin' the cap-stun and completed mission of the whiskey bottle.

  23. Robert Strong had her buried in a quiet corner of a cemetery and left orders for a stun cross to be put up to mark her grave.

  24. But she called me back and sez she: "I want to give you one word of solemn warnin' before we part," and I stopped stun still and listened.

  25. And he follered me round with footstools, and het the soap stun hotter than wuz good for my feet, and urged me to keep out of drafts.

  26. But no soap stun wuz ever so hard and heavy as my grief.

  27. Now lookee, sir, I've been fourteen stun nine for the last eleven years--not a hounce more or less.

  28. I didn't see no stun up here that was fit for quarryin'.

  29. His brown-stun front waz a tub, and it want on end, at that.

  30. I sot right down on a stun and held my head for a spell, for it did seem as if it would split open.

  31. He declared that he had not intended to take the director's life, but only to stun and rob him; and that, finding the blow had killed, he dared not fly for fear of drawing down suspicion upon his own head.

  32. I thought I had only stunned him--I never meant to do more than stun him.

  33. I daresay if you went down by the river and listened just at daybreak you would hear them at it, flapping the river with their tails to stun the fish.

  34. But that wouldn't stun the fish," cried Dean.

  35. He decided to stun Mr. Swenson, though, if he had known that gentleman more intimately and had been aware that he had the reputation of possessing the thickest head on the water-front he would have realised the magnitude of the task.

  36. But as I told Whitfield, stun is cleaner than dirt, and more healthy, unless you have 'em both throwed at you, in that case dirt is more healthy.

  37. And as I lost sight of them stun towers in the distance, they seemed to say, "Float on, poor voyagers; float along with your pitiful little crumbs of knowledge and wisdom carried so proudly.

  38. A hundred years ago one moulderin' old head-stun leaned over the grave of one of that company.

  39. Standin' on it, loomin' up tall and solemn and mysterious, wuz some high stun towers.

  40. Hours and hours I trod up and down broad stun highways, through endless parks and Pleasure Places, climbin' interminable flights of marble stairs, walkin' through immense picture galleries.

  41. And we went into the old stun church, which the dead master of Bonnie Castle thought so much on and did so much for, and is full of memories of him.

  42. I am still too much under the cloud of past misgivings, too much of the stun and stupor from the recent peals and thunder-crush still remains, to permit me to anticipate others than by wishes and prayers.

  43. His object was to stun the latter by the fall; and the more effectually to do this, he would have carried the cobra still higher, had not the latter prevented it by attempting to coil itself around his wings.

  44. It reached the head of the snake, and seemed to stun it.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amaze; appall; astonish; astound; awe; benumb; bewilder; blast; blunt; boggle; boom; chloroform; confound; crash; crescendo; daze; dazzle; deaden; deafen; din; dope; drug; dull; electrify; freeze; frighten; horrify; jar; jolt; kayo; knock; numb; overpower; overwhelm; paralyze; peal; perplex; petrify; resound; ring; rise; rock; shake; shatter; shock; stagger; startle; stun; stupefy; surge; surprise; swell; terrify; thunder; transfix; unnerve; overpower; overwhelm; paralyze; peal; perplex; petrify; resound; ring; rise; rock; shake; shatter; shock; stagger; startle; stun; stupefy; surge; surprise; swell; terrify; thunder; transfix; unnerve