Sentence examples for having been confused from inspiring English sources

For a long period, however, it was not clearly recognized as a separate metal, having been confused with such metals as lead, antimony, and tin.

She also let me and her daughter read whatever she was teaching; I remember Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton and a short story that ended with aliens eating a mean man with a prominent Adam's apple, the aliens having been confused by a dictionary definition of a turkey, with its wattle**.** She called me Pumpkin and she also often called her daughter Pumpkin.

It was widely believed that Morgan, who was, in the words of Margaret Gowing, "amiable but not adequate to the task", had been appointed by mistake, having been confused with his namesake, General Sir William Duthie Morgan.

Some ECB-watchers have been confused too.

He said he had been confused.

Even the law lords had been confused.

The old Capriati might have been confused.

It could easily have been confused with a shout.

And he had been confused for the past several days.

Perhaps all the transactions have been confused in their minds.

Apparently two Englishmen with the surname Waugh have been confused.