Example sentences for: stunningly

How can you use “stunningly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A three-quarter-size French corvette ship and quayside buildings have been stunningly brought to life.

  • She relies heavily--very heavily--on adverbs, which serve to pepper her noncommittal reviews with small emphatic bursts and to jack up her celebrations (from a 565-word review of Velvet Goldmine : "dazzlingly surreal," "brilliantly reimagines," "spectacularly reborn," "dramatically presided," "stunningly pretty," "fabulously charismatic," "hilariously decadent," "typically wicked").

  • His technique is based on standing back--maintaining a fixed distance--while his subjects hang themselves, and for a while that works stunningly.

  • The story stunningly asserts that over the past 20 years, up to 2000 of 51,000 priests in the U.S. have been accused of sexual assault, and that Roman Catholic dioceses have shelled out $800 million since the 1980s in compensation for sexual abuse by priests.

  • This recently discovered early Tennessee Williams play has been stunningly staged--critics praise the acting, direction, and costumes--but they debate whether the work itself is amateurish or fully formed.


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