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  • Besides being dumb-struck by the weather, I was amazed by the great plays that took place on the emerald diamond far below the pressbox.

    Tim Wendel: California Dreaming: The Old Days at Candlestick Park Tim Wendel 2010

  • And her immensity and power were so great that the child stood dumb-struck.

    Dyane Jean François: The Children's Place 2010

  • From innocent non-writers it's annoying enough, but from someone that is a writer, it leaves me dumb-struck.

    There Are No Stupid Questions (guffaw!) Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • Her middle-class MOTHER and FATHER sit on the living room couch, looking more dumb-struck than entertained.

    Archive 2008-10-26 2008

  • Her middle-class MOTHER and FATHER sit on the living room couch, looking more dumb-struck than entertained.

    Grace Slick @ 69 2008

  • I glanced at the other girls at the table, who looked just as dumb-struck and unsure as I felt.

    INNER CIRCLE KATE BRAIN 2007

  • I glanced at the other girls at the table, who looked just as dumb-struck and unsure as I felt.

    INNER CIRCLE KATE BRAIN 2007

  • I glanced at the other girls at the table, who looked just as dumb-struck and unsure as I felt.

    INNER CIRCLE KATE BRAIN 2007

  • Anyway, here is what the august inside-the-beltway publication Hotline called him today: Centrist Andrew Sullivan: I was trying to explain last night to a non-Catholic just how dumb-struck many reformist Catholics are by the elevation of Ratzinger.

    04/20/2005 2005

  • Baudelaire, Girou, and Eggshell each took an orange portion and ate in silence, dumb-struck by flavor.

    The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

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