Stupor Sentence Examples

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  • Rhyn blinked himself out of his stupor enough to steady himself.

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  • Waking from her stupor, she blew him a kiss.

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  • Sofia hung up the phone, feeling as if she were emerging from a stupor for the first time in months.

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  • Sofia blinked out of her stupor.

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  • He ultimately sank into a condition of mental stupor, and became the obedient slave of the upstart Struensee (q.v.).

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  • His raised voice pulled her out of her stupor.

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  • The dangerous principle is a narcotic, and the symptoms are usually great nausea, drowsiness, stupor and pains in the joints.

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  • It was only a slight brush, not enough to fully wake him from the depth of his stupor.

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  • This allows the cast members to pursue whatever they want, whether that is education, an occupation, or spending a lot of time in a drunken stupor.

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  • Children who are awake are very thirsty, although a child may drink poorly if in a stupor.

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  • Katie Young looked at the speedometer, which read thirty-seven when the blue lights flared up behind her, jarring her out of the pre-coffee morning stupor.

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  • How long was she sitting in her stupor?

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  • Frederick - presently to be the renowned emperor Frederick II., Emperor Frederick " Fridericus stupor mundi et immutator mirabilis " - II was crowned at Palermo in 1198; but the child, deprived of both parents, was held to be under the protection of his lord Pope Innocent III.

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  • It brought me out of my warm stupor with a jolt and I thought it was time I moved myself.

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  • Catatonic schizophrenia or depressive stupor have been suggested as a likely diagnosis.

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  • Children with severe dehydration are usually lethargic, in a stupor, or even in a coma.

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  • After absorption their action, speaking generally, is exerted on the brain and spinal cord, and is at first slightly stimulant and afterwards depressing, even to the causing of sleepiness and stupor.

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  • Although the term can refer to any drug that deadens sensation or produces stupor, it is commonly applied to the opioids-that is, to all natural or synthetic drugs that act like morphine.

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  • Furry displaced her stupor.

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  • In larger doses it causes stupor, coma and convulsions.

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  • In a drunken stupor, Nic asks Jonny to record an album with him.

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  • On the first occasion he claims the man got him drunk over Sunday lunch and raped him while he was in an alcoholic stupor.

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  • Trying to awaken a cat out of a catatonic stupor is virtually useless.

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  • Thursday 7th August 2003 | Read more Stupid silly season stupor My head is falling apart.

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  • The odour alone of guaco has been said to cause in snakes a state of stupor and torpidity; and Humboldt, who observed that the near approach of a rod steeped in guaco-juice was obnoxious to the venomous Coluber corallinus, was of opinion that inoculation with it imparts to the perspiration an odour which makes reptiles unwilling to bite.

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  • Remittent fevers (as well as intermittents) vary considerably in intensity; some cases are intense from the outset, or pernicious, with aggrava tion of all the symptoms - leading to stupor, delirium, collapse, intense jaundice, blood in the stools, blood and albumen in the urine, and, it may be, suppression of urine followed by convulsions.

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  • It is necessary to hypnotize patients every day for several weeks before they can be got into a degree of stupor sufficient to allow of the safe execution of a surgical operation.

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  • In 1880, Dr. Jean-Baptiste-Edouard Gélineau coined the term narcolepsy, from the Greek words narke, meaning "stupor" or "numbness," and lepsis, meaning "to seize."

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  • Their manoeuvre was carried out with complete success, kind of stupor and allowed his marshals to fight by themselves.

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  • Hohenstaufen, surnamed Stupor Mundi, in alliance with Pisa, against a Genoese squadron bringing a number of English, French and Spanish prelates to attend the council summoned to meet at the Lateran by Gregory IX.

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  • The character of Frederick is one of extraordinary interest and versatility, and contemporary opinion is expressed in the words stupor mundi et immutator mirabilis.

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  • The man Dean had hit sat on the floor, glazed eyes open, with a look of stupor on his face.

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