Sentence examples for bewilder from inspiring English sources

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bewilder

verb

To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.

  • All the different possible options may bewilder us.

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She'd suggested to a friend that he should put socks down his pants to bewilder security agents at the airport.

The main difference is that Mr Wolfensohn did most of his own shrieking and shouting, whereas Mr Wolfowitz pays others to bark for him.A new president inherits a corps of 8,600 highly qualified and experienced staff in full command of a jargon and house culture that can bewilder new bosses.

Sony's plans for the Mini Disc threaten to so bewilder customers that they could stop spending money on such gadgets entirely.To ensure the success of the new format, the company believes that it must make plenty of prerecorded music titles available quickly.

He is close to retirement, a thought that seems to bewilder him.

Further mischief – I can't say "confusion" for her tricks delight rather than bewilder – arises from the potent blend of fact and fiction that Duncker concocts with a glorious abandon as the details of the final decade of Eliot's life – at least that have made it into historical record – are combined with the author's fictional creations.

Neither Nordstrom nor the Whites bought into Moore's idea that literature for children had to be carefully regulated lest it confound or bewilder developing minds.

Unlike Cornershop, which was accessible to everyone, her sex shop, loftily titled Madame Roxy's Erotic Emporium, will carry an age limit of 18 and Sparrow warns that its contents might well shock and bewilder anyone who hasn't entered such a place before.

Holroyd proceeds at a furious pace, and, in less expert hands, the detail packed onto the page might bewilder; instead, the effect is of an epic, perfectly balanced by intimacies of setting and character.

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