Sentence examples for confound from inspiring English sources
"confound" is a correct and usable word in written English. It can be used as a verb meaning to confuse or perplex, or as an interjection expressing strong annoyance. Example sentence: "I was so confounded by the complexity of the problem that I felt completely helpless.".
The latest evolution of tobacco company strategies involves new nicotine products that make smoking attractive and confound the boundary between toxic and less toxic uses.
Such traditional values may yet confound Speedie, Regis and co on Saturday.
Should they somehow confound all available odds and end "49 years of hurt" by becoming the first England side since Sir Alf Ramsey's class of 1966 to win a World Cup, participation figures would sky-rocket and the WSL could surely afford to look confidently towards the future.
In the interim they had collaborated on Needham's best movie, Hooper (1979), with Reynolds opportunistically cast as an ageing stuntman who wants to stage a death-defying feat – partly to impress a young rival and his girlfriend (Field) and partly to confound an obnoxious producer.
Strategies include lobbying against tobacco control measures, suing countries who take action and designing new products that confound regulations.
But poverty was his natural enemy and he believed that to defeat it, it was necessary to confound the greed of the rich and the cowardice of politicians.
They confound the stereotypes.
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