Sentence examples for muddle for from inspiring English sources

2. In large pitcher, combine gin and rinds, and muddle for two minutes.

If we don't get drastic action soon, we may find ourselves stuck in the muddle for a very long time.

MIAMI — For most of the year, the race for president has been a muddle for both parties: An amorphous cast of candidates seeking to distinguish themselves and win attention from voters, donors and the news media.

The handful of "Metric Martyrs"—traders that have faced prosecution have become heroes in some eyes for their struggle against that embodiment of evil: meddling, foreign-inspired officialdom.So what to do? Satisfying the preferences of the anti-metric lot means muddle for everyone else.

Curiously, though, when these writers have turned to thinking about the novel, rather than within it, attempts to modify or counteract the logic of the cultural marketplace have produced mostly vexation and muddle — for example, Franzen's specious division of books into "Status" and "Contract" camps or the inflated distinctions of Smith's "Two Paths for the Novel".

During remarks in New Hampshire in last month, Mitt Romney accused President Obama of "mission muddle" for expanding United States operations in Libya beyond enforcing a no-fly zone to a wider goal of preventing Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from attacking his own people.

This kind of shift in timing is muddling for demographers.

If the national election picture looks muddled for the Democrats on the day after Super Tuesday, the picture here in California looks murkier still.

How he will do so is procedurally muddled for the moment, but there is little doubt that another staple of the Bloomberg era is ready for the dustbin.

At some point everything got too muddled for me to work: now that I have a wife and a kid I can't really be drinking glue.

But AT&T has muddled for so long now that only a big surprise -- a big, good surprise -- will suffice to get investors excited again.