| Her most obvious talent is an ability to stare dumbly at her interviewees in a manner which, she hopes, suggests interest. |
| She had looked at him, dumbly, and he had rushed away, leaving her unforgiven. |
| I was standing there dumbly trying to absorb the enormity of what I had witnessed when it struck me that I had a family to worry about. |
| The employees stared dumbly after him, all of them dressed alike, members of the same club. |
| He nodded dumbly as he walked over to the medicine cabinet and took out the pill bottles stored there. |
| It refuses, in fact, to do anything that will help its owners earn their living, just stands dumbly in its stall. |
