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Examples of stunner in a Sentence
His wife is a real stunner.
The jury's decision was a stunner.
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With relentless howling wind making up much of the soundtrack, The Turin Horse was a chilling, enigmatic stunner that played like a metaphor for the apocalypse.
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
Chef Casey Wall, a North Carolinian by way of Australia, cares about ingredients and their provenance, as evidenced by the tomatoes in a zippy summer salad and the sustainable Gulf fish that centers a Texan take on a brown-butter almondine stunner.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 29 Dec. 2025
The stunner of the year also happened in May, but on the other side of the world.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 23 Dec. 2025
The kitchen is a stunner, with custom cabinetry, a Wolf induction range, and a floor-to-ceiling A-frame window to light it all up.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 9 Dec. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
Chef Casey Wall, a North Carolinian by way of Australia, cares about ingredients and their provenance, as evidenced by the tomatoes in a zippy summer salad and the sustainable Gulf fish that centers a Texan take on a brown-butter almondine stunner.
—Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 29 Dec. 2025
The stunner of the year also happened in May, but on the other side of the world.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 23 Dec. 2025
The kitchen is a stunner, with custom cabinetry, a Wolf induction range, and a floor-to-ceiling A-frame window to light it all up.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 9 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stunner
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“Stunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stunner. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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stunner
noun
stun·ner
ˈstən-ər 
: one that stuns or is stunning
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