Jaw-dropping

/ˈd͡ʒɔː ˌdɹɒpɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

(informal) Causing great awe or surprise..

Example Sentences

The acrobatic performance in the theater was jaw dropping.

Bag of Bones is, hands down, [Stephen] King's most narratively subversive fiction. Whenever you're positive–just positive!–you know where this ghost story is heading, that's exactly when it gallops off in some jaw-dropping new direction.

[Iggy] Pop's was the most jaw-dropping stage show anywhere. He made a point of bloodying himself with broken glass at virtually all of his shows.

But they discover their error in the cab, tell their driver to turn around, talk themselves out of that, tell their driver to stop, talk themselves out of that, and finally—displaying a truly jaw-dropping grasp of logic, even for lawyers—decide the clue means that taking the cab there is okay as long as they then walk to the mat on their own two feet.

The plots of Mission: Impossible movies tend to be convoluted but negligible, really only there to provide connective tissue between jaw-dropping set pieces.

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• more jaw-dropping
• most jaw-dropping
• jawdropping

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