Sentence examples for bemused on from inspiring English sources

SERVICE -- Well-meaning but bemused on one night, expert on another.

The pope looked bemused on Wednesday night when Morales handed him one of the more unusual gifts he has received: a sculpted wooden hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism – with a figure of a crucified Christ resting on the hammer.

Most bemused on Sunday evening: Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Tom Crabtree, apparently receiving abuse on Twitter that had been intended for his (unrelated) San Francisco namesake, Michael.

It stood, bemused, on the ramp for a moment, and then suddenly there were more ducks behind it, pushing and jostling, and it was too late for it to turn back.

With Van Gaal appearing shellshocked and bemused on the bench, slumping forward on to the leather folder on his knees, Giggs strode into the technical area and attempted to inject urgency into the team with directions from the touchline.

For several years my husband and I lived in central London in the UK and many British friends were bemused on our tendency to believe in hope for change, that we could be the change, and we often heard that, semi-condescending, 'how optimistically American of you' refrain.

The three incarcerated men, all of whom had speaking parts in the film and were also involved in the making of a documentary about some of the inmates' lives ("It's a Hard Truth Ain't It," which has its première Wednesday night), were dressed in jumpsuits — their browns — and looked both delighted and bemused to be on a giant screen in Manhattan.

In the end the new word doesn't seem to have caught on, attention confined to a bemused few on Twitter, and an Evening Standard ​follow-up piece  that asked: "Is the chivster a thing, then?" .

From behind these impassive staring eyes and disapproving expression streams a series of witty tweets inspired by the self-serious stereotypes of German literature and academic life, the sometimes hilarious length and labyrinthine complexity of German vocabulary and grammar, and a generally bemused take on the vagaries of life on the internet.

The owner of a neighbouring military-surplus shop looked on, bemused.

But these Minions memes really do it for me: jokes so toilet they were probably nicked from the last Adam Sandler film as a cute little potato of a 'toon looks on, bemused.