Verb (used without object) : After staggering momentarily, he recognized that he had to make a decision.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.    From Dictionary.com. 

Michael Brill looked tired last week as he ducked into his cavernous winery in eastern San Francisco to answer what he described as a staggering number of e-mail messages.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The cost of delay, already staggering, is greater every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » FEMA Chief Brown] Reference

And all without Bynum, and with Kobe staggering from the flu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Forgot About Tim] Reference

What I find staggering is that was back in the '70s before word processors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing New Words Right...Hopefully] Reference

I have read your works, and they contain staggering and startling imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harlan Ellison on God] Reference

Perhaps more staggering is the fact Sass has scored seven of his ten victories by triangle choke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elliot Worsell: Britain's Third Wave of Mixed Martial Artists] Reference

"The Bailout Games" have already been labelled a staggering financial disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorilla Radio blog] Reference

He finds the line's price tag staggering, especially given the number of riders.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The damage was described as staggering even in a country accustomed to tragedy and disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

What They Do industry expert called staggering and said shows that Duke wants to build its reputation on a.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

In an age of the Internet and television it's time for the idea of staggering the primaries to go the way of the dinosaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I Still Lived in Michigan, I'd Be So Ticked Off at the DNC and the Candidates] Reference

The reason it’s staggering is simply because online media never existed before now, so we had to do it to understand it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking in Real Time] Reference

The real people who need to be upset here are those secretaries who aren’t beng accepted to law school in staggering numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Loyalty to Bush is this Administration’s Affirmative Action Policy] Reference

So, is that the kind of staggering event you have in mind?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

There had been a "staggering" increase in crime in his area.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Researchers said the results of their study were "staggering".    From Wordnik.com.  [Crocs’ Long Walk Home | Impact Lab] Reference

U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch called the fraud "staggering" in scope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Briefing Book: Oct. 16-17] Reference

And the director saw me, like, kind of staggering, trying to get over there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2003] Reference

"The figures were kind of staggering," recalls Samuel Gaskins, the jury foreman.    From Wordnik.com.  [When There's Smoke There's Fire] Reference

U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch called the mortgage fraud "staggering" in its scope.    From Wordnik.com.  [N.Y. Real-Estate Developer Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud] Reference

There were little white things floating around and people kind of staggering around cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2007] Reference

The government talks of the "staggering" £133bn bill for incapacity benefits over the past decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benefit cuts and fairness: We're all in this together… or are we?] Reference

Losing Myers would be "staggering" in light d the other women's departures, says a White House aide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Non-Shuffle Shuffle] Reference

Ratings firm Standard & Poor's described the write-downs as "staggering" and blamed "management miscues.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Merrill Takes $8.4 Billion Credit Hit] Reference

And it's kind of staggering to think about, but at one time he had planned to translate Walden into French.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)] Reference

R700 million which would increase this financial year's cut in the defence budget to a "staggering" R1,4 billion.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Dow Chemical Co. said it plans to raise prices on its products as much as 20% to offset "staggering" energy costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumers Expect Higher Prices] Reference

By even conservative estimates, the program is racking up "staggering" costs, according to Municipal Market Advisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Build America Bonds Boom, Adding to Tab] Reference

Suddenly we were off the coffin and kind of staggering through the air, Eric holding me to him with dogged persistence.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Together Dead]

With a "staggering" figure of 45 percent of the vote up for grabs Patricia de Lille's new party could have a role to play in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's kind of staggering, the way she has hijacked the institution by staging an "epic collision" between herself and the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Rosen: Judith Miller and Her Times] Reference

The proportion of underweight children under five in South Asia had reached a "staggering" 47 percent, and 30 percent in sub-Saharan.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Policies that have generated "staggering" growth helped propel the country up the table to 11th from 15th position, the report said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In the professional component of the department - the prosecutors and magistrates - the turnover rate was a "staggering" 80.7 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) grew to a "staggering" R27. 8 billion by the end of March this year, the Labour Department said on.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Predictably, some of Oprah's aforementioned fans are outraged: "There's nothing" staggering "about how this guy became famous," wrote one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Joseph: Oprah's Jay-Z Moment] Reference

(Soundbite of song "Bein Schlafengehen") Ms. FLEMING: It's a kind of staggering of these two voices in a way, and the beauty of this dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renee Fleming: 'Four Last Songs' Of Strauss] Reference