In his wake, all four Dwaer sprang apart, fading away in midair as they raced in opposite directions ... and leaving in their wake a dumbfounded silence to settle over the riven Flowfoam Palace.

When people ask her what it means, "I explain, and there's either a dumbfounded silence, or they say 'Is it like the Bobbsey Twins?' "

There was a moment of dumbfounded silence as that fact was absorbed and then B'nurrin ducked away before the wrath of his peers could descend on him.

We stared after him in dumbfounded silence.

This produced a moment of dumbfounded silence before the first voice grated, "Gnof, can you lap a pie-chain?"

In their mutually dumbfounded silence, he decided he liked her high cheekbones.

There was a moment's dumbfounded silence.

Ms. Hartmann said her own reaction was a dumbfounded silence so interminable that Catharine Stimpson, an acquaintance and director of the fellows program, who called to give her the news, finally said, "Well, Heidi, dear, would you like to know how much money you're going to get?"

They were restless until we took off and began to course above the projected treetops, happy at the opportunity to just stare in slightly dumbfounded silence.