How To Use Befuddled In A Sentence
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For the most part, we are benumbed, befuddled or afraid.
Judith Acosta: The Great American Trance
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Reaching over to put the light on, befuddled and stupid, I saw the dog, trembling and sheepish, dark eyes anxious in the lamplight.
Diary of a separation
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The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
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I'm still befuddled by the speed with which these were produced, in a kitchen featuring two gas burners and one ancient electric mixer.
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Avoid this film unless you want to know the befuddled feeling that comes of toking on a bong for a few seconds too long.
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You can't help but be struck by the sheer befuddled babyishness of the apologists.
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Aficionados of business dinners will know that this wasn't actually spent on the meal (the befuddled restaurateur comped the food) but on the wine, most of which was older than they are.
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The onlooker finds him or herself standing - intrigued or befuddled, or probably both - amid multivarious narratives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riders overtake traffic, carving in and out of lanes as befuddled drivers bond in confusion with pedestrians.
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The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
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It befuddled me greatly because I couldn't remember doing anything wrong that night, at least not to him.
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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He was to do this because his brain not befuddled by panic.
The Sun
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I opened the door and there was no teacher in sight, only several befuddled students.
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The sport of boxing won big time as it again confused and befuddled it's critics.
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This clarified things for the more befuddled viewers but reminded all that they were watching a dead person.
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So even shows that I'd made a point to catch have gone by the wayside, and thus I find myself not remembering to catch them even on the rare quiet nights because I've fallen out of the habit, so I wind up utterly befuddled at Peter David's Buffy and Angel recaps... and I'm left feeling kind of resentful that I'm missing it all.
Pen-Elayne on the Web
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Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, booming ferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
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Too often carers accused of theft claim that their victim was befuddled.
Times, Sunday Times
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A very befuddled teenager soon found himself pushed and locked out of the room.
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It clearly left the others, and the jury, amusedly befuddled by her inarticulate sentence fragments, full of sound and fuzzy, but definitely signifying nothing, though it certainly removed any remaining mystery as to why they never bother to give her any airtime.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: The Blithering Inferno.
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I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
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Even then, the details of how I had gone and gotten myself a boyfriend befuddled me.
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Who knows what little games he played in his mind before it became befuddled by morphine?
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He must have been perpetually befuddled and dismayed by his downfall.
Times, Sunday Times
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She told me, her eyes widening with the mystery that befuddled me earlier.
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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I do have to admit to being a little befuddled by what's going on in terms of the descriptions.
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Unsteady on their feet, uncoordinated, befuddled and bewildered.
The Sun
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I am as befuddled as you are when I try to read that deliberately abstruse text.
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She dies of a heart attack, he's too befuddled to inform the authorities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brooke glanced around at the girls, whose befuddled faces told her how stupid this must have looked.
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The dynasty is ruled by King Leodan who to all outward appearances is a strong and just king, but behind closed doors is a befuddled “mist” addict.
“Acacia” by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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Sarah felt something stir within her as she gazed at him, her eyes never leaving his and she was befuddled.
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And what better to enliven the befuddled mind than chess?
Times, Sunday Times
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Clearly it exists, but it is befuddled, complex, and we all have a different idea about what it is.
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He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute.
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Hot, bothered and befuddled, folk started acting very oddly.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a multitudinous number of Alaska Democrats, including me, whose votes may decide the outcome remain flummoxed, befuddled, uncertain.
Donald Craig Mitchell: Daddy's Girl Versus Sarah's Boy: What's an Alaska Democrat to Do?
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The old right-wing nostrums which befuddled public opinion in the 1980s and 1990s no longer have the same impact.
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As one keeps replacing the other, we easily get befuddled ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was so stunned and momentarily befuddled it never even occurred to me to fire the second barrel.
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I called back at the cabbie, who was leaning out his side window, a little befuddled, but even he was smiling some, in his slightly jaded D. C.-cabbie way.
Mary, Mary
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I forgot to tell you all this is set in one of my confused and befuddled future settings.
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When Miss Fiske wrote to inform me of her condition, I was utterly befuddled.
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Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
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Emerging after a bibulous evening, befuddled guests went to recover their coats, only to discover that some of them had ‘walked’.
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At first they glanced at each other, befuddled by the albino girl who stood in nothing but a strapless nightgown.
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This question befuddled even the teacher
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The kid smiled and vanished, leaving a befuddled scientist to wonder if he'd begun hallucinating.
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He was befuddled as he swilled the tea around in his mug
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I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
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Her acting aptly conveys noble spirit and befuddled brain.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it comes to piecing together a performance, they can, at their worst, resemble a befuddled man confronted by self-assembly furniture.
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In our early days, my entering classmates were often befuddled by the kind of readings we were given.
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Even then it was hard work, but they kept him befuddled for several days, and finally inveigled him into buying No. 29 for $750.
The Gold Hunters of the North
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The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected.
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New York, of course, befuddled me until I couldn't keep track of my wallet; which contained the greastest collection of gum wrappers, taco bell receipts, ticket stubs, lint bolles, and the et ceteras I had.
Joegood Diary Entry
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Most people were befuddled by or misunderstood Full Metal Jacket and had misapprehended The Shining.
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Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
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the wino's poor befuddled mind
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Karl Johnson as an unreliable toper drifts through the action in a befuddled haze.
Noises Off - review
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Count me among those befuddled by the apparent widespread confusion between "pseudonymity" and "anonymity".
Pseuds vs anons
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Of course, one would have to be incredibly naive to think that Palin, at best a befuddled Republican poster child and at worst another establishment neocon, would follow through on her support and back a new 9/11 investigation should John McCain snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and take the White House.
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A befuddled moment passed before he understood she was referring to his rickety motorcycle and not to their assignment as volunteers.
Heaven Lake
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a hollow under some buffalo-bushes and slept the loggish sleep of the befuddled.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted