How to Use stupor in a Sentence

stupor

noun
  • He fell into a drunken stupor.
  • The sunny day would have fit better in a grey day full of stupor.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Constand, who is gay, told police the pills left her in a stupor.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Even the saguaros have the stupor of passengers on a long-haul bus ride.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But now, the Outback appears to be out of its stupor.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 4 June 2026
  • At the end, Leo awakes from his stupor to voice his objections.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But there isn’t enough coffee in the world to jolt the filmmaker out of his stupor.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 June 2022
  • His drug use has sent him reeling between manias and stupors.
    — David Enrich, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Patrons — many just as panicked and some in a drunken stupor — ran by her.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 8 Mar. 2026
  • You are thankfully prodded out of your daydream stupor and now are on full alert.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Sensing the stupor her meal had induced, Gamage went in for the kill.
    — Prasad Ramamurthy, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The cilantro is key because its chlorophyllic sharpness slaps the stupor out of the starchy beans.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Oct. 2025
  • That’s not to say there isn’t a company-wide stupor after last week’s bombshells.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Travel, at its best, shakes us from the stupor of everyday life and returns us home again more alert and aware.
    — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Studies show that after a few days your brain waves shift toward delirium or stupor.
    — Riza Cruz, Marie Claire, 19 Feb. 2014
  • Some of the drug users arrive there in a stupor, some unable to stay awake, some with open sores or wounds on their hands, arms, legs, heads.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune Well, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The day that Kai prayed for death jolted Kimberly out of her stupor.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The jokesters’ aim was to drive their target to angry stupor for the enjoyment of fellow pranksters.
    — Stanislav Budnitsky, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Slim, chiselled Tom wakes from his stupor, newly determined to prove his haters wrong.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • But comfort does not always mean health; it could just as easily be caused by a narcotic stupor.
    — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In an angry, drunken stupor, my client returned to the store, confronted the young clerk, and stabbed him in the heart.
    — Emilio "emi" Benitez, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • Who among us hasn’t basked for an hour or two in the self-congratulatory stupor of the like-minded?
    — Garret Keizer, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Other insects will be chilled into a stupor for a journey up to Honduras.
    — Stephanie Nolen and Eleanor Lutz. Photography and Video By Federico Rios Escobar For The New York Times. Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • On their own, the crises around fake news and election interference may not have shaken us from our screentime stupor.
    — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2018
  • But art’s job — like walking into a field of a million dandelions — is presumably to wake us up from that stupor.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • Blood runs down their arms after removing syringes while others pass out on the pavement or stumble through the busy road in a stupor.
    — Megan Myers, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • What bold vocabulary could shake me out of my Swift stupor and juice me up for a new Perry release?
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 18 June 2024
  • Ferrera was living in one of the cars with his girlfriend, and both were sometimes in a stupor, Malone recalled.
    — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
  • Binging the best Thanksgiving episodes in a post-meal stupor is one way to cope with a less-than-lovely holiday.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Gordy leaves his apartment in a drunken stupor and gets arrested for DUI.
    — Robert Croan, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2017

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