| Given the gory, carnage strewn 250-plus pages that precede that statement, the reader can only nod dumbly in agreement. |
| When he was done speaking, he kind of ushered me offstage with him, and, dumbly, I followed. |
| When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk. |
| She started for the door while the girls watched her dumbly, not knowing what to do or say. |
| But, as things were, he abstained from fraternising and continued to goggle dumbly. |
| It refuses, in fact, to do anything that will help its owners earn their living, just stands dumbly in its stall. |
