How To Use Addled In A Sentence

We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
A typical nest thus pointed out by an over-obliging bird was saddled neatly on a horizontal limb of a balm tree at the height of about 30 feet from the ground and the ever-present lake.
The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.

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McGregor is saddled with a tiresome everyman role, but Spacey, Clooney, and especially Bridges make some of their scenes work better than they should. Your mind won’t be blown watching “The Men Who Stare at Goats” » Scene-Stealers
With a quick catch and lift, he passed Michael up and into unseen hands outstretched from the iron wall of the ship, and paddled ahead to an open cargo port. CHAPTER 2
They unsaddled their mounts
A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood. Confessions of a Beachcomber
She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
There was joy on the double for racing's first Lady Jessica Harrington at Leopardstown as the County Kildare trainer saddled the winners of the two feature races.
So she sware to him that she would not do him any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars saying, Use this.’’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
According to F&F Foods, the current manufacturer of Sen Sen®, the candy straddled olfactive and gustative categorization at its inception and “In keeping with its perfumery roots, it was on the market list for many years as a cosmetic.” Breath Perfumes
What follows is a sort of addled odyssey fuelled by comic self-aggrandisement and rage against the various machines of money-making. Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
he saddled me with that heavy responsibility
Guided by instinct, he paddled with his forepaws.
You left out the bush whackers, rump rangers, fifth column traitors, child pornographers, baby rapers, brain addled dope smoking malcontents, serial abortionists, incorrigible violent criminals and drug pushers as well as the Clintons that make up the Filthy Left wing of the Liberal Losers. Think Progress » Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002
I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads.
And not only the punters: TV's Angular Ex-England Fast Bowler Punditry Eminence could be seen holding court in raddled picnic pose, a tiny plastic Viking hat on his head. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Saddled with the most unfortunate perm in the history of the coiffeur, she still manages to create an incredibly believable teen protagonist, filled with instantly recognizable angst and insecurity.
As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart.
Dad is a crofter and a raddled drunk, who has an accident with a sheep that puts him in bed for a few days.
If its proposal is accepted, the company will be saddled with a higher interest bill. Times, Sunday Times
The ferry stopped, launched a boat and picked them up - they had paddled 14 miles across the Channel - at 7am.
And he said there was another camel with two humps, and he was created for riding, and was called a dromedary, and when ye rode him, ye sat at your ease between the two humps, which made a soft saddle, just like an arm-chair ye straddled on, only without arms. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
There she was, sitting as usual, and I was so concerned, believing that due to my interference all the eggs had addled—for I thought the hatching time was three weeks.
I caught one last wave and then paddled in to shore by a river mouth. The Sun
He has addled his head with reading and writing all day long.
Flash I was saddled with 'Hologram' for a while, in respect of my annoying habit of disappearing instantly on a run ashore and reappearing magically in camp tucked up in bed minus speech, faculties and an workable digestive system teuchter. it means country folk. Army Rumour Service
She steals the show as Billie Tricks, the raddled night-club hostess.
Call saddled the horse and handed the reins to Matilda, along with his pistol. Dead Man’s Walk
The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
Women in wet saris and men with lungis hoisted between their legs paddled in the spume to do puja, or worship. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Jiro waddled closer, his belly bulging and distended.
I slipped my leg over the side and straddled the bike.
The great writer and scholar Iris Murdoch, addled and disoriented by advanced Alzheimer's Disease, ambles out of her Oxford house and into the city.
He saddled and bridled Ebony, untied the halter, and led his horse carefully through the trees.
At that moment a duck paddled near, and overhearing this, she laughed.
Perhaps the most intriguing question of all, though, regards the significance of the baby, which lies asleep, or quite possibly dead, swaddled so expertly in the foreground of the picture.
Soon after, a saddled and bridled chestnut horse came striding into view.
Ravaged, raddled, redolent of hard-won experience, his voice sounds like something dreamed up by the Department of Health in order to scare people off smoking.
I suppose the shock had addled his poor old brain.
‘A pretty story,’ he said flippantly as he unsaddled his horse and threw saddle and bridle to the ground.
A few cars behind where Guest stood a once pristine bright red, two-seater sports car lay on its back, straddled widthways across the remains of two other vehicles.
Baruchel Undeclared is nerdily charming, but Johnson chews too much scenery to go with the whiskeys the script has him knocking back, and both attorneys are saddled with such cornily dramatic closing-arguments speeches that you will end up rooting for the jury to send an innocent man to jail, just to spite them. Reunited, and, Well, Frankly, It Could Feel Better - Tuned In - TIME.com
One fine morning as he waddled down the chapel steps, his recalcitrant congregation took matters into their own hands, "debagging" the holy hypocrite and attempting "to deprive him of his manhood. Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob
We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
I sat under a lemon tree with two of my oldest and dearest friends while the kids paddled in the wading pool and drove plastic cars around the yard.
Thank the Gods for a woman like her - with the addled sanity of palace life, and my own befuddling emotions, she is sense in the face of total insensibility.
You're talking like an addled romantic.
Even newborn babies were not washed, and until the eighteenth century they were swaddled in bands of cloth that were changed twice a day at most.
Madame Dort waddled over to the workbench, clanked her toolbox down beside it, flipped the heavy metal latches, and flung the thing open. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
addled eggs
She leans into the turn, finely balanced, feet spraddled and pressing the stirrups.
He saddled his horse, mounted, and rode away at a gallop.
The horses are unsaddled, the Winchesters taken from their scabbards for protection through the night.
Along the harbor in Beaufort, North Carolina, this electioneer also paddled ‘a small row boat from vessel to vessel’ to collect the votes, though it was ‘very rough and difficult - if not dangerous - to get about as I have to do.’
This damned heat has addled many people's wits, mine included: made us sluggish, unquestioning, apathetic.
Both pieces portray the wealthy as guilty, eager to please, easily fleeced babies swaddled by all that money.
It seems likely that the net cash position will move into net debt and/or the company will be saddled with onerous lease obligations.
The highest auction price ever paid for a Munnings was $7.85 million at Sotheby's in New York in 2004 for "The Red Prince Mare" (1921), an image of a monumental horse being saddled before a race. Going to the Races, in Art
Stacey chose a dapple gray horse, and a groom saddled the horse up for her.
Before long heads began poking above the water's surface, and eventually big critters with blackish shells and spraddled legs began pulling themselves onto shore.
Snug in this waterborne nest, he paddled away from the cruel mirth of the swimmers, intent upon solitude. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
They unlocked the door and I skedaddled out past the yellow tape perimeter and then scrambled home.
As it was, the tops all stayed on - which was probably for the best, given the slightly raddled state of the talent on display.
They paddled inshore in a coracle of skins which, for the most part, lay upturned on the deck like the hollow carcass of some giant turtle.
The video was looped, so that every few minutes the shadows passed by again and the ducks paddled across the canvas.
Here he secured the "knockabout" horse, always kept saddled and bridled about the station for generally-useful work, and set off at a swinging canter up the paddock after his own steed. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life
Welcome to the liveblog of the political chitter-chat shows that we are forced to contend with in order to understand the minds of your political figures (addled) and the men and women who cover them (needy). TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
The coast is enshrouded with fog - out of the fog there is this lobster boat, and we paddled up to it.
I caught one last wave and then paddled in to shore by a river mouth. The Sun
Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs.
The idea of these two people, each saddled with real issues, trying to break through psychological barriers and make a meaningful connection is ripe with possibilities.
I paddled the rest of the way in to the beach, arriving just as the latecomers were hopping over the rocks that lined the shore.
Obama may be "saddled" with Clinton whether he likes it or not. Clinton: McCain's '2013' speech like 'Mission Accomplished'
This has left the company's German operations saddled with costs and productivity way out of kilter with the rest of the industry. Times, Sunday Times
The dish tasted good, even in my addled state.
We paddled the canoe along the coast.
She was straddled across a terrified studenty looking lad who was drinking from a straw in the bottle.
It once straddled the boundary of two counties. Times, Sunday Times
The project thus straddled the financial crash of 2008, and now concludes amid rising economic nationalism and anti-globalization sentiment. The Times Literary Supplement
On July 19, 2003 a non-viable, addled osprey egg was collected from a nest at the northern end of Upper Richardson Lake in Richardsontown Township in western Maine.
Swept along, we paddled furiously to miss the many boulders that appeared in front of us.
Though heavily saddled with cliché, Pure Mule exhibits at least some of the commendably defiant instincts of a bucking bronco.
Not contented with his bargain, the chapman attempted to _underlet_ to another speculator, the liberty of showing him, and poor Cotter resisting this nefarious transaction, was saddled with a fictitious debt, and thrown into a spunging house in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832
I saddled my horse and rode to the other side of town; I needed to talk to Alec.
I think you're a little addled from the shed obsession. Bad Juju Among the Shed Heads
Let's hear it for the raddled TV sport personality Channel Four's Famous and Fearless was utterly pointless | Martin Kelner
Now they're saddled with Slavonic tongue-twisters with more consonants and fewer vowels than can possibly be good for them.
saddled and spurred and ready to ride
Having occasion to go to the village, he called Terence, and ordered his horse to be saddled. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
Meanwhile, the witnesses of the rural wedding had all skedaddled -- to borrow a Greek word -- into the woods, in dire confusion, tearing dresses, pulling down 'back hair,' hitching hoop skirts, and tumbling over blackberry vines -- but each intent on increasing the distance from the mad cow. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Wherewith the two canons of the old school waddled away, arm in arm, and Bolt put out his head, leered at Ambrose, and bade him shog off, and not come sneaking after other folk's shoes. The Armourer's Prentices
Coracles are paddled, or more correctly sculled, not to the stern but rather toward the bow using a figure-eight stroke.
Mrs Woodford waddled about in the most valuable shawls; mandarins and josses nodded over her chimneys; and pagodas and japans ornamented her rooms. The Old Manor House
He slid this off the float, loaded into it sundry boxes and packages, and taking his seat astern, paddled inshore to where the rising tide was ruffled by the outsetting current of a river. The Hidden Places
I unsaddled the horse and tied it near lots of grass.
Equally alarming is the amount of debt many Rochdale families are saddled with.
Next morning they paddled off in kayaks, hugging the coast along a sheer rock face. Times, Sunday Times
His career as an MP ended with the Addled Parliament of 1614, and he died in 1620, leaving money - and a share in a Smithfield pub - to a number of puritan causes.
The first knight to charge unsaddled him.
Asiajuk and his wife and three of the hunters stayed with the umiak at the mouth of the river, but Crozier and Silence with their children, the still-curious hunter Inupijuk, and the other hunters paddled their qayaqs upriver the three miles or so to the first low falls. The Terror
Delighted, Jim produced a photograph of himself as a forestry officer, 90 years later, crossing those same rivers in a dugout canoe paddled by natives and clutching his rifle.
They tumble out of the sky like maple leaves, side-slipping right and left to lose altitude, feet spraddled toward shouts of welcome below.
As soon as it was dark Nur al-Din busied himself with making ready the stallions and patiented till the first watch of the night was past; when, without a moment delay, Nur al-Din the lover full of teen, saddled them with saddles of the goodliest, and leading them forth of the stable, locked the door after him and repaired with them to the city-gate, where he sat down to await the coming of the Princess. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now. pint-stoup = _pint-mug_ braes = _hill-sides_ gowans = _daisies_ paidl't = _paddled_ burn = _brook_ fiere = _friend_, _companion_ guid-willie = _well-meant_, _full of good-will_ waught = _draught_ Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
We have an arrogant and ignorant president with a brain addled by long use of alcohol and cocaine and other drugs. Think Progress » Rumsfeld Attacks Murtha: Says He Is Undermining Troops, Comforting Enemy
The 185 - pound Steller sea lion waddled ashore, shocking students and teachers.
His balance was thrown off, but he was not unsaddled until the horse went about twenty feet more.
The old man handed the already saddled brown horse's reins to him.
Pairs of fishermen paddled dug-out canoes along the lazy river. Times, Sunday Times
Out on the pier, we saw that kids had paddled out over a hundred yards on lilos and inflatable rafts.
Her mother paddled her for not keeping quiet.
We are both members of Edinburgh Kayak Club and have paddled many of the more challenging whitewater rivers in Scotland, such as the Orchy, the Etive, the Bran, and even the legendary Falls of Lora.
There arose from behind some nearby bushes a shrill cachinnation and out waddled a gaggle of purposeful geese. Death of a Fool
Tracey unsaddled his horse, all the while thinking.
I'm swaddled in long legged pants to hide the twenty separate bruises.
His first-time-out direction is imaginative and breathtakingly supple, the work of a greenhorn unsaddled by convention or limitation and able to tell a story in the precise terms forged by hundreds of live performances.
They were the sort of conflicts that frequently flare up along any ill-defined border which is straddled by farming communities.
He waddled chubbily and somewhat stiffly, but he outfaced the winter wind as he had not done for many weeks. The Innocents A Story for Lovers
Although saddled with a convoluted plot, he has invested his film with enough grit, panache and edgy style to make it thoroughly gripping.
At my small town college the off-campus housing was very limited, which meant the go-getters got bragging rights on all the great apartments while the ambitious-yet-lazy people, like myself, were saddled with the dregs.
I might have removed it, but Bari had done a poor job in piercing me, as you’d expect from a sun-addled girl without previous piercing experience. Requiem For A Ring
We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.
Of course, there's one big roadblock with this release: It's saddled with a remixing/remastering treatment that sands down some of the original's edges.
Once a bay mare had been saddled and she had been given instructions on how to guide the beast, she hefted herself into the saddle and experimentally squeezed its barrel as she had been shown to.
We paddled on in tense silence, waiting for more gunfire or perhaps the twang of a banjo, but they were not interested in us.
Hello and good morning and welcome to this January 23rd edition of your Sunday morning liveblog of these political chitter-chat shows that we are forced to contend with in order to understand the minds of your political figures (addled) and the men and women who cover them (needy). TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
The majestic wooden craft sliced easily through the water as she paddled.
Ben saddled his horse and rode across the desert.
However, Max is addled with a sacred sacrificial goat that he needs to deliver to a wedding in Yeoville, a sleazy suburb in Johannesburg.
battered trumpets and raddled radios
We re-saddled our horses, and searched those nearest, that is to say easterly; but no water was found, nor any place that could hold it for an hour after it fell from the sky. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
If its proposal is accepted, the company will be saddled with a higher interest bill. Times, Sunday Times
If its proposal is accepted, the company will be saddled with a higher interest bill. Times, Sunday Times
We took off our shoes, paddled in the water, made sand castles, collected sticks and shells, and examined the dead jellyfish washed up on the shore.
He saddled his horse and rode away.
I waddled jovially around the apartment in my Santa suit, laughing through the beard's tiny mouth hole like a walrus blowing through its moustache.
Though saddled with a reputation for being a straight-faced bunch of no-fun guys, the crucial role accountants play in the heart and soul of the economy cannot be overstated.
She showed no sign of caring that her slim boyish legs, encased in her elder brothers khaki shorts, were being scratched by the thorns of the roses that she skedaddled past.
Hmas Wewak was greeted on entry by flotillas of dug-out canoes skilfully paddled by locals whose ages ranged from six to 60.
Lewdness abounds, but after all of this repressed sexuality, the next scene is a chaste dance between Mina and the addled Harker.
The boom was much bigger than Berlin bargained for, which means the country is now saddled with a huge supply surplus. Times, Sunday Times
Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his student as an undergraduate.
Jane saddled and bridled her favourite horse.
A giant robot Minotaur straddled the train platform, raising and lowering a golden double-bladed ax. VITALS
We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.
We walked up the curving beach below Malibu Creek and paddled out at the top of the point.
She saddled the mare, the just-awoken horse quickly catching onto Fiona's urgency.
Together the two men saddled their horses and rode from Virginia City.
We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.
There is an unpleasant smell in the goose shed and we suspect that the early laid eggs have addled.
Please yourself!" the Maluka laughed, and with a flash of white teeth and an infectious chuckle Cheon laughed and nodded back; then, still chuckling, he waddled away to the kitchen and took possession there, while we went to our respective dinners, little guessing that the truest-hearted, most faithful, most loyal old "josser" had waddled into our lives. We of the Never-Never
The men, middle-aged and raddled by the inevitable broken roads they have travelled, struggle to come to terms with their lives and damaged relationships.
We paddled vigorously until lunchtime, when we found a sandbar in the middle of the river.
The country had saddled itself with debt which took until this year to completely pay off. The Sun
He's a wandering laborer with a penchant for black-out drinking, saddled with a blackmailing alcoholic groupie played by Thomas Mitchell.
But it is difficult to see whether anyone still emotionally invested in Courtney Love's raddled muse will be able to take succour from them at the end of such a misfiring album. Hole: Nobody's Daughter
Although her vocal range was not wide, the number of genres she straddled was impressive. Times, Sunday Times
It is still saddled with a bloated bureaucracy, too many branches, and a portfolio of shaky or dud loans to state-owned enterprises.
I must be getting addled, he thought, as he thumbed through the book. THE SOUND OF MURDER
‘Had all the horses in the mews in a powerful fret,’ said Robert as he saddled his master's horse.
He was previously conditioned by Ken McPeek, who saddled him to his victory in the Belmont Stakes along with his win in the 2002 Sir Barton Stakes.
Armando Martinez rode three winners on the program while eight different trainers saddled winners.
The fact that she was even considering the idea showed that he'd quite addled her brain, she thought.
Considering the multitude of arguments you have assigned to me that I did not make, the only one making you look "addled" is you. Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The vavasor then without delay had saddled a bay palfrey. Four Arthurian Romances
In hand-hewn boats, these brave seafarers paddled their way from distant shores, traversing thousands of kilometres of open sea.
His schtick as an actor - whether playing a newspaper editor, politician or raddled old rock star - is always the same.
Pablo Nuñez Perez, a Kuna who married an English girl and lived in England for seven years, paddled out in a dugout canoe (called an ulu) to welcome us.
Down by the college flats near Darwin, I saw an old and slightly raddled bloke in a dog collar and full priestly garb.
Looks like the fake doc realized that and skedaddled. Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil
Going into the barn she unsaddled and unbridled the big stallion.
His near misses have left him saddled with a reputation as a man who, when the going gets tough, goes to pieces.
Overcoming initial incredulity and long-standing revulsion for this raddled adventurer, from March 1790 the royal couple paid Mirabeau for support in the Assembly and regular advice.
A carpenter out fishing with his family caught sight of the thousands of armed and uniformed soldiers marching towards the town, and immediately dropped his loaded line and skedaddled in the direction of the town radio tower.
The flea-bitten gray pony was saddled by a sleepy saice, and brought round from his open-sided thatch stable in the rear. Rung Ho
The men now added their coats, and Wemple, for additional traction, unsaddled the roan, and spread the cinches, stirrup leathers, saddle blanket, and bridle in the way of the wheels. WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
An American cackle, piercing my ear, and I shuddered away by instinct, which was sound judgment, for if I felt dreadful, she looked worse, a raddled slattern grinning her stinking breath into my face, reaching out a fat hand across my chest. THE NUMBERS
So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his ass.
The move makes clear that profitable companies in Dubai fear being saddled with toxic debts from other government-owned businesses. Times, Sunday Times
Then, limping over to Barn's prone body, he straddled the man, and sat down on his blubbery belly. GALILEE
He pulled on his helmet and straddled the motorbike.
All this might sound like the product of an addled brain, but it is not as detached from political reality as it seems.
Once they were saddled up it was business as usual on the all-weather gallops. The Sun
Tiny tots toddled and waddled in memory of a special friend.
Moss straddled the back of the end zone, leaped over the shoulder of safety Donovin Darius and caught a pass from Daunte Culpepper, snapping a 13-13 tie with 5: 34 left. USATODAY.com
He is usually exhibited as over-laden with wine, and seated on a saddled ass, upon which he supports himself with a long staff in the one hand, and in the other carries a _cantharus_ or jug, with the handle almost worn out with frequent use. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
Thankfully, no one had unsaddled their horses because a moment later, the officers came galloping back in haste.
I sighed as Pitcher waddled along, trailing slightly behind the others sometimes rushing to catch them up.
Our line of defence straddled a major road from which the bulk of our unit was withdrawn the night before the British attack and my platoon was left behind as the rearguard with the instruction to fight to the last bullet.
On our way out Tony skedaddled toward the piano of course they had a piano near the communal lunch table -- the employees break bread together "family-style" everyday hitting the keys with gusto as he played us out. Carolyn Ossorio: L'art Pour L'art: Daytrippin' at World Famous
Only a handful of people have ever paddled this river.
No matter how it is worded we are saddled with a system YOU think is good enough for the rest of us, just not good enough for you.
Tell-tale splodges between the fingers, round the ankles and, in a couple of particularly bad cases, down the cleavage suggested that I wasn't the only one aghast at the effects of nine months swaddled in layers of woollies.
They usually are swaddled tightly in blankets when they are very small.
We have saddled the population with massive amounts of debt that inflates the value of everything beyond any tangible reality and delivered another bout of false hope. Steven Bulwa: The Market Is in Bubble Mode Again

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