befog

How To Use befog In A Sentence

• In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between.
• Professing, then, that having missed our way we must needs hurry on to make up for lost time, I listened patiently to the minute and befogging directions given us for finding the St. Malo road and ordered my party to march. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
• Besieged, befogged, we don't dare to voice the simmering question: "When will it ever end?"
• I see Russia and Putin from my back porch ... simply befogs my mind. Poll: Palin decision doesn't change minds
• This seems to me to be the lesson of any view of the human prospect that is not befogged by groundless hopes.
• It's not just the classy British accent — which so often befogs the minds of Americans. "It would be absurd to say that you can’t stick something under the fingernails, smack them in the face."
• He had not been German long enough for befogging his mind to that point, but the moment was decisive for much to come, especially for political morals. Rome (1859–1860)
• Through a constricted throat and a befogged reason, I heard myself mutter something about the disparity of our stations.
• Befogged we have been, and don't take my word for it.
• Still, it is clearly pedantic to avoid the obvious by clothing it in befogged terminology, as one might by writing arenaceous or sabulous for sandy, immund for dirty, nates for buttocks, or venenate for poison (vb.). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3