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Example sentences for "stupor"

Lexicographically close words:
stupidities; stupidity; stupidly; stupified; stupifying; stuporous; stur; sturb; sturdie; sturdier
  1. A kind of stupor must have spread over my young mind.

  2. Roused suddenly from stupor by the howling of a dog, I leapt up.

  3. The cry seemed to break the fit of stupor in which Bennet was, for his face was seen to quiver, while a shudder shook his frame.

  4. Francis Eversleigh had listened in a sort of heavy stupor to the reading of the Syndic's letter.

  5. Did you ever see such a stupor as he falls into, between drink and sleep?

  6. A moment of stupor succeeded to this carnage.

  7. The girl's frantic appeal seemed to arouse the three men from a stupor of helplessness.

  8. That phase had passed like the stupor of a nightmare.

  9. But the fever took a different course with him from that which it had taken with the others: he was never delirious at all, but lay in a death-like stupor from which it seemed that he might not awake.

  10. The fire had for the first time gone out, and the patience of Jackson could not now be taxed, because he was lying on his back in the stupor of fever.

  11. He had attacks of headache, generally terminating in a kind of stupor rather than sleep, during which he could scarcely be held responsible for the things he said or did.

  12. Old Assunta was fast falling into the stupor that is but the precursor of death.

  13. She sat and thought till feeling itself became utterly exhausted, and again the spell, the stupor of indifference, crept over her.

  14. The orderly had gone about in a stupor all the evening.

  15. He got to bed at last, and slept inert, relaxed, in a sleep that was rather stupor than slumber, a dead night of stupefaction shot through with gleams of anguish.

  16. The stupor gradually cut her off from common affairs.

  17. There was the slow stupor of a fever gaining ground.

  18. The deep stupor seemed to pass, and he began to moan.

  19. In a few years there would be Parliament, office, power, the awaking from stupor of an England hypnotized by malign influences.

  20. It was in a stupor of despair that he heard her say, "Wait a bit here, till I've got rid of these people.

  21. Courtois from the sad stupor into which he had been plunged.

  22. Consciousness in this case returned, but the patient again fell into stupor and died.

  23. On the sixth day there was stupor and a semi-delirious state, with an eruption of a pustular character compared to that of the small-pox.

  24. The stupor suddenly deepened into coma, and the man died; the fatal course being altogether about nine hours--viz.

  25. He sank into a stupor that outwardly was not unlike heavy slumber.

  26. Utterly exhausted, the victor collapsed forward, with head and arms upon the table, in a half swoon that quickly passed into the sleep- stupor of outspent strength.

  27. Its legs were folded beneath its body, and it was perfectly plain that this was not the first time that it had been in the toils of the wasp, which had evidently stung it into submission and stupor some minutes previous.

  28. A dull stupor at length came over him, and for long he sat neither asleep nor awake, without thinking.

  29. On going in he perceived in the dim light the unfortunate young nobleman extended on the sand, in a stupor so nearly resembling death that he started back in horror, fully believing that his spirit had already fled.

  30. Out from the stupor of ether, out from the hours of bewildering pain, Captain Frazer had come back to an interval of full consciousness, of fuller knowledge that, for him, this painless interval was but the prelude to the final painless sleep.

  31. Then the stupor had given place to delirium; and, even in her room and behind her closed door, she could hear the low, muttering voice.

  32. I was, in some degree, roused from the stupor which had seized my faculties.

  33. Chapter XI I was aroused from this stupor by sounds that evidently arose in the next chamber.

  34. The stupor and surprise produced in my mind by this extraordinary change in the posture of affairs was perhaps, after all, that part of the adventure least susceptible of explanation.

  35. That I now saw aright I could not and would not doubt; for the first flashing of the candles upon that canvas had seemed to dissipate the dreamy stupor which was stealing over my senses, and to startle me at once into waking life.

  36. At night when Margaret realised this, she felt inclined to sit down in a stupor of despair.

  37. In fact, the awakening from intellectual stupor was slow, for Dom Clemencin tells us that there was less printing in Spain at the commencement of the nineteenth century than there had been in the fifteenth under Isabella.

  38. Episcopi does not refer to witches, and that stupor with illusions is much more difficult to comprehend than the truth of the Sabbat.

  39. To see his noble soul bent down to the earth, driven almost to the madness of desperation, was to me a more heart-rending spectacle than the delirium which produced a sort of stupor in my mother.

  40. The sight of her distress roused me from my lethargy; yet it was with a sort of stupor that I moved to her assistance, and when she had in some degree recovered, my brain was still whirled round and bewildered.

  41. I have recovered, but feel a stupor that makes me indifferent to the hopes and fears of this life.

  42. So that I often recollect what is said of the poet Phineas in the Argonautics: A stupor deep his cloudy temples bound, And when he walked he seemed as whirling round, Or in a feeble trance he speechless lay.

  43. Jan Bartlot came out of his stupor and lay very still, clenching his teeth against groaning.

  44. A pleasant stupor was creeping, creeping over him.

  45. He attempted, by the gentlest and the kindest words, to arouse her from this stupor of grief.

  46. But now a leaden stupor lies Upon my dull, inactive soul; In vain my spirit strives to rise, From the dark mists that o'er it roll.

  47. About eight o'clock on Thursday evening, a heavy stupor came over him, and the fearful death-rattle warned us of the approach of the grim messenger.

  48. The condition of stupor into which he more and more deeply sank, took all sensation of suffering away from him.

  49. But, while he thus regained health, his senses remained in a state of stupor which reduced him to the vegetative life of some poor creature born only the day before.

  50. He took up his hat quite suddenly and set off for the Paradou in a state of mingled stupor and resignation, as though he were unwillingly performing some compulsory task which he saw no means of avoiding.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stupor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstraction; alienation; amnesia; anxiety; apathy; blackout; blah; boredom; catalepsy; coma; compulsion; daze; dejection; depression; detachment; dispassion; drowsiness; dullness; elation; emotionalism; ennui; faint; fatigue; fugue; haze; hebetude; high; hopelessness; hypochondria; hysteria; indifference; insensibility; insouciance; kayo; knockout; languor; lassitude; lethargy; listlessness; mania; melancholia; narcosis; nod; nonchalance; nothingness; numbness; oblivion; obsession; passivity; phlegm; preoccupation; resignation; reverie; shock; sleep; sleepiness; sloth; slowness; slumber; somnambulism; somnolence; sopor; stupor; swoon; syncope; torpor; trance; twitching; unconcern; weariness; withdrawal