How To Use Bemused In A Sentence

Aside from a few bemused looks from passers-by and a few words with the police, nothing untoward happened.
McElwee sees Los Angeles and its entertainment industry through the eyes of a bemused Easterner.
The young couple she confronted with this information today seemed bemused and uncertain how to react.
We are confused, bemused and affronted. Times, Sunday Times
Mention "chinny" to Roach and he grins and shakes his head, bemused but also dismissive. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

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The lights changed and the truck pulled off with Chase trying to keep his balance and looking thoroughly bemused.
Mr. Sebastian was looking at the boys with a bemused expression.
Myself, I spectated for a while out of the window, bemused and amused, an interloper at someone else's surprise party. Ballspenden
She seems unconcerned; only bemused. Times, Sunday Times
With so many brands and types of wine on the shelves, many bemused Scottish consumers plump for a bottle because the design on the label looks good.
Foreign darts fans are bemused. Times, Sunday Times
For better or worse, he became a master of the grand gesture, grappling with his inner demons and his outsize ego in front of a bemused public. Times, Sunday Times
Bemused onlookers were even more surprised when they saw central bankers dishing out free champagne and hot toddies to their shivering customers.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for a deal that has bemused many in the City. Times, Sunday Times
Police were bemused when they found the bunny, which they dubbed Hoppy, on a roadside verge in Manchester and decided to take him into custody.
The painter exchanged a bemused look with his assistant, but agreed, quoted a price, and asked what subjects I would like him to paint.
Instead she spent time endlessly cleaning and polishing communal areas as bemused staff and residents looked on. The Sun
The room soon turned to bedlam as the voices of protest were countered by other delegates who argued that the debate should be allowed to continue, while other bemused bystanders tried to work out the plot.
Elderly people were bemused at the temporary closed sign as they turned up to collect their pension money only to find the shop shut.
There were few arguments at the award, just bemused looks. The Sun
A rather bemused declarer won trick two with the eight of clubs! Times, Sunday Times
Firefighters were bemused to wake up and find a large brown and white horse tethered by a rope to their station.
Our waiter is bemused by our request and allows us to use the tearoom for our photography session. A Glimpse
In cities such as Prague, expatriates were glued to televisions in bars, bemused locals looking on.
Bemused, she observed that even the horses drowsed quite steadily.
Familiar bends and twists in the hallway lead her past cubbyholes and labs of other Engletech researchers, including the bemused Thatcher.
Scattering the soil across the bemused peccary, Neil uncovered the arms and face of the younger of the Swedish yachtsmen. RUSHING TO PARADISE
But he simply cocked one eyebrow, his expression bemused, and rubbed a hand gingerly over his jaw. The Devil Wears Plaid
Accordingly, of the subway bury difficult question, nobody dare clappers, bemused all the time decision - making process.
Instead she spent time endlessly cleaning and polishing communal areas as bemused staff and residents looked on. The Sun
I'm bemused by the continual croaking and moaning that goes on about budgets.
We are left bemused rather than shocked. Times, Sunday Times
Laurel is bemused by her husband's new-found enthusiasm for cricket and his frosty attitude towards the couple when she invites them to lunch. The Sun
With a bemused shake of her head, she started to leave, when suddenly an idea struck her.
He's still slightly bemused by the phenomenon. Times, Sunday Times
It might not mean much to the bemused passers-by, but in the sport of geocaching this little baby represents treasure.
Charles looked bemused but gave an encouraging smile while Emilia urged her on; Faith and Hope were smiling but Charity, Rebecca and Louisa were frowning.
One eyebrow is nearly obscured by the angle of her beret; the other is raised, bemused and disdainful.
Curiously, the footage of her performance on that day showed this audience not quite as keen - indeed, they stood stock-still and looked bemused.
Aiming for the fourth title of the season the local favourite netted a goal in each session, outplaying its bemused opponent.
Yesterday the couple stepped out into the brilliant afternoon sunshine to face the cameras, looking happy if somewhat bemused. Times, Sunday Times
a crowd of bemused onlookers
He was slightly bemused by his success. Times, Sunday Times
The Negative Ego is quite bemused by the concept of equality.
It means "daily bread," but somehow "quotidian" seems right for Seinfeld, 52, a guy whose entire career is built on his bemused study of everyday life. Jerry Seinfeld
From the sun lounger Maggie had been watching Liz conduct her hard sell with a kind of bemused indulgence. FALLEN WOMEN
When the first Icehotel in the world opened, some people were a little bemused by exactly what it was.
In cities such as Prague, expatriates were glued to televisions in bars, bemused locals looking on.
But, as befits the actor whose screen character is a smart but lairy chancer who finds himself out of his depth, Conlon is a bit bemused at his rising reputation.
The Negative Ego is quite bemused by the concept of equality.
Their pop sensibility, spangly make-up and subversiveness bemused, charmed and totally won me over.
The doctor seemed to contemplate this quite seriously, his fingers coming up to tap at his chin bemusedly.
You seem bemused, hurt, outraged. Times, Sunday Times
Make no mistake: this is the vitriol of a disillusioned fan, not a bemused outsider.
Chavvorth blew out the candle, his expression bemused, and put it down. Zeta Exchange A Terran Empire story
We now take a more cynical, or at least a more bemused, view of such analogistic reveries, for we recognize that the cosmos, in all its grandness, does not exist for us or as a mirror of our centrality in the scheme of universal things.
They camped out at a local garage rock band's house and played noisy, careening rhythms to a small number of bemused punks at the old Multipurpose Rumpus Room.
Signs are meant to inform and advise but some leave us bemused and amused. The Sun
Through the dry, chilling lines, he always seems one part bemused; you can almost hear a smirk in his voice, which is a deep, rich baritone, unbefitting of a 37-year-old who still half looks like a teenager.
Shop girls tend just to look pained and bemused when you ask if there are any trousers in stock that rise a bit higher, since they're oblivious to the exigencies of approaching middle age and the effects of gravity on untoned flesh.
Donovan looked at Jane inquisitively, a bemused grin on his round, ruddy Irish face. A Covert Affair
Instead she spent time endlessly cleaning and polishing communal areas as bemused staff and residents looked on. The Sun
This piece, which casts a bemused eye at love and rejection, gets points for much more than endearingness. Times, Sunday Times
Gattuso never let him rest on the ball, and delighted fans when he jinked past his bemused opponent.
Usually from the bemused skipper of a boat I'd just rammed. The Sun
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for a deal that has bemused many in the City. Times, Sunday Times
For myself I have also met up with people and been bemused about my lack of conversation.
I must admit that I was rather bemused by his sudden anger.
You seem bemused, hurt, outraged. Times, Sunday Times
Morris was contacted, and became increasingly bemused by the investigation.
With barely an apology, the bemused travelers were hustled off the train at Wellingborough and shovelled over the bridge to catch the next train south.
Usually from the bemused skipper of a boat I'd just rammed. The Sun
A handful of the migrants stood around the makeshift stage, looking a little bemused and somewhat put upon. Times, Sunday Times
It was the bemused opal jaguar with a ruby butterfly resting on its golden claw. WHERE THE HEART IS
* Likewise, I was bemused by one of the later commenter’s insistence that I must’ve been raised in/rebelled against a quasi-libertarian fringe sect of Adventism, which is not at all the case. Randomness to let you know I’m still alive
A free kick 25 yards out perfectly placed and left the Derby defence bemused and helpless.
Now that he has, he does seem slightly bemused by it all. Times, Sunday Times
Probably weighing around 20 stone, a bald man with a moon face stood there, looking sad and bemused.
Sarah looked totally bemused.
Photographs of her, looking slightly uncomfortable and bemused before disembarking, achieved equal prominence.
He says that for most of his twenties his parents were bemused rather than anxious or intolerant. Times, Sunday Times
He was totally bemused by the traffic system in the city.
He was the leading exponent of photorealism, a school of art that was probably maligned by the snoots but embraced, bemusedly, by the pop artists.
Given that local body elections are only 6 months away, the tempo was bound to increase, but I am still somewhat bemused at the ferocity of her attack and the level of her vitriol.
He is a decent sort, bemused by the essential strangeness of life, with more questions than answers.
With so many brands and types of wine on the shelves, many bemused Scottish consumers plump for a bottle because the design on the label looks good.
I left bemused, bewildered and even more interested in a region of complexities and complications.
Jan was bemused that few of the divers on our boat talked about what they had seen on the dive.
Has he observed the bemused punters viewing his exhibition? Times, Sunday Times
Bemused glances helped them get through that deadly sermon.
He was the leading exponent of photorealism, a school of art that was probably maligned by the snoots but embraced, bemusedly, by the pop artists.
obviously bemused by his questions
We have further the drunk being portrayed as a ruminator, albeit an intoxicated one, attempting to find a point of reference in the dilapidated territory of the Tenderloin, and these thought processes result in an act of bemused micturition. Vollmann’s Aesthetic Realism : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
Then, before my hungry and bemused family could answer, he turned and vanished into the swirl of tables.
One bemused attender started to shout that he could not understand the answers to such questions.
After the show I ask him what he thought of the proceedings, and he says he was bemused by most of the criticism.
In France any mention of exercise tends to provoke a bemused reaction.
Has he observed the bemused punters viewing his exhibition? Times, Sunday Times
My rancher friend Lee, on whose ranch we do most of our hunting, came over to to me the other day at the Post Office, a bit bemused, to tell me to keep my dogs off his entirely "deeded", ie private acreage for the next couple of weeks, because the Government trappers were cleaning out coyotes there. Archive 2006-02-01
Those who recall Mercouri only as a mid-century sex symbol outshone by her more celebrated contemporaries Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot might be bemused by the exalted place she now occupies in the modern Greek pantheon, rather as if Angie Dickinson had become head of the National Endowment for the Arts. But more than anyone else, Mercouri vivified the continuing campaign to bring Greece's long-lost archaeological treasures back to their homeland. Grading the New Acropolis
This ebullient crime caper is the author's bemused look at the commodification of history.
She seems bemused by the attention. Times, Sunday Times
Armstrong said: ‘I'm absolutely bemused that he decided to do something where he is not contactable by the people he represents or works for.’
The narratives tend to focus on family members left behind, in states of bemused and angry grief.
I was a bit bemused at the interview. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway, bemused etymologists eventually tracked down the source of this confusion.
They include a close, often bemused knowledge of one's fellow villagers, and linguistic expedients such as giving slighting nicknames, telling humorous anecdotes, and composing satirical ballads.
Scattering the soil across the bemused peccary, Neil uncovered the arms and face of the younger of the Swedish yachtsmen. RUSHING TO PARADISE
I remember being only slightly put off by all the walking that was required to get from parking lot to track, bemused by all the vendors selling anything from T-shirts to chicken wings, surprised at the sheer numbers of people who turned out to see un-mufflered vehicles go around in circles on an asphalt roadway. Outfoxed Diary Entry
Andy Rooney was America's bemused uncle, spouting homespun wisdom weekly at the end of "60 Minutes," a soupcon of topical relief after the news magazine's harder-hitting segments. Curmudgeonly Commentator Andy Rooney Dies
Day seems a little bemused by my question. Times, Sunday Times
Shoppers in Swindon were bemused to see snorkellers in the town centre.
Firefighters were bemused to wake up and find a large brown and white horse tethered by a rope to their station.
This was a contest that will be remembered as the day the Saints became bemused sinners.
Meanwhile the project seems to have provoked some bemused commentary among art connoisseurs.
Kildare Town residents were bemused when a statue of Lord Edward Fitzgerald appeared in Market Square recently as if he appeared by magic or as if aliens had beamed him down.
as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class
Hi tanna, it's really a Melbourne institution, though it's not for everybody, there is the odd bemused face. At My Table
The Negative Ego is quite bemused by the concept of equality.
Eleanor slowly pulls the acquiescently bemused Gary into her life, whether it's her remorse at selling her classic car or her need for some simple body contact, in the form of asexual cuddling. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Hello Lonesome
The counterperson seemed shyly bemused by the fact someone had heard of the promotion. DOUBLE FREE FOOD ALERT | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
Shoppers bustled by, some with the full set of designer carrier bags, others with only a bemused frown.
Now, I suspect that most of us read this anecdote with a somewhat bemused attitude at the daring of the vicar for having asked something so time-consuming of his bishop.
Mind you, I was a little bemused to read the article say: ‘Is my peripheral vision good enough to detect back-stabbing?’
He took the offered hand and shook it firmly, bemused by the looks Mrs. Davis was giving him.
I think we were a bit bemused initially as it was essentially just a demo. The Sun
Bligh felt bemused, standing in this trench with its perfectly revetted walls and neat dug-out bunkers.
Twice the fish is close, the tuna boat far behind, bemused fishermen watching our manoeuvres with some trepidation.
Unfortunately, what Cecil offers seems little better - it's little more than an episodic series of hammily acted altercations between his shrill cast and various bemused multiplex employees and film producers.
He was rather bemused by children.
She looked a little bemused to see me but immediately unslung her bag from her shoulder and swung it towards me.
My family were slightly bemused, although my father was delighted. Times, Sunday Times
The production bemused and beguiled a packed house in which I seemed to be the only person over 22.
The top brass of Iran's navy saluted thousands of bemused onlookers from the tiny fibreglass boat attached to a lorry. The Sun
He looked utterly bemused by the question, shook his head and smiled broadly.
The station, made famous in the eponymous Oscar-nominated film, was filled with grizzled old men in rakish Panama hats, young Turks in Bermuda shorts and T-shirts, and besuited and bemused commuters.
The language, mental and nuanced — like the prose structure itself — often serves a bemusedly ironic sensibility; life is more spectated than suffered. These Kids Today
This discomfited some of the Zuccotti inhabitants, aware of anti-Semitism charges against the movement, so an OWSer in an undershirt and porkpie hat poured coffee down the guy's back, who called out to demand his constitutional rights from a bemused-looking senior NYPD official. Squatting on Wall Street
As bemused commuters hurried by, small chanting groups poured out from the early morning bars.
When I got there, the Fool was bemusedly turning his posy in his. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
He seems bemused by his new surroundings goats, geese, Shetland ponies and a variety of other animals.
The pupil gave me a rather bemused look before saying he had been last night and preferred their pizzas. Times, Sunday Times
This lone polar bear bemused tourists on a cruise through Svalbard in the Arctic by standing on its hind legs and appearing to wave. Times, Sunday Times
When the first Icehotel in the world opened, some people were a little bemused by exactly what it was.
Sometimes when I look back on my life as a child or young adolescent, it is through the eyes of a bemused observer.
One ashen-faced senior figure said: ‘We are standing around here bemused and astonished.’
It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
She gushed while Sol just looked at me with a bemused expression and raised one shoulder in a short shrug.
“I needed to use the restroom, so I thought I should buy something,” he replied, his expression bemused. The Glass Rainbow
‘I'm utterly mystified,’ said one bemused spokesman earlier today.
You wondered for a moment who was most bemused by this monumental and possibly decisive swing of the pendulum.
The pews were no longer haphazard and broken, instead they now were arranged in neat rows leading up to the front, where a bemused Tane and a fully clothed Ferik sat.
One eyebrow is nearly obscured by the angle of her beret; the other is raised, bemused and disdainful.
He is still bemused by the enigmatic arrival and departure of his illness.
When the selectors were bussed to the Kelvin Hall in a Strathclyde double decker, they were a mite bemused to find the arena dominated by circus elephants limbering up for their annual Christmas gig.
The driver examined the surreal scene with an expression of bemused wonder. Flash
That was the bemused phrase people employed to explain the always weird, sometimes amusing, often maddening behavior of Manny Ramirez, the slugger who retired last week.
In the centre of it all stands a bemused young Fijian, a pair of lifebelts extending from outstretched arms, being a tree.
The song ended in a caterwaul of feedback as they stumbled off stage, leaving in their wake trashed guitars and a bemused Jonathan Ross.
A London media wag, bemused by the pace of life in Scarborough, had quipped in the run up to the game that the town did not so much have cup fever as a sore throat and runny nose.
He was a gentle, courteous, convivial, slightly bemused romantic, born out of his time.
her bemused expression
As an Old Firm manager O'Neill is entitled to feel bemused at how two years of good work can be distilled down to the black and white of how his team perform in a single, one-off match.
For years, I have watched bemused from the sidelines at weddings, wondering how it is that everyone else in the world seems to know how to perform those allegedly traditional Scottish dances as I remain resolutely clueless.
Most modern art aficionados know that if mysterious British artist Banksy didn't create the urban world's love affair with quirky riddles in stencil art on public walls, then he certainly spearheaded its emergence into light — at least from a broader (if somewhat bemused and undecided) public's point of view. Graffiti: the wry humor of Mexico City street stencil art
Talking about Quebec independence in in 2009 would be met by bemused stares (or perhaps mid-90s nostalgia) by even the most ardent sovereigntist. Matthew Yglesias » My Long-Awaited Revenge
A huge, bemused fiberglass giraffe looks down on the proceedings from a fake rock outcropping in the middle of the course.
She sometimes seemed bemused by his drive and his success. Times, Sunday Times
There were few arguments at the award, just bemused looks. The Sun
Um, and then handed over the three dollars to the bemused stallholder. Evening Star | clusterflock
Mendieta curls an absolute beauty, wrong-footing a bemused Arendse, which flies into the corner.
This discomfited some of the Zuccotti inhabitants, aware of anti-Semitism charges against the movement, so an OWSer in an undershirt and porkpie hat poured coffee down the guy's back, who called out to demand his constitutional rights from a bemused-looking senior NYPD official. Squatting on Wall Street
Ilse looked at him with bemused incomprehension.
A high-vis-vested organiser grabbed the Old Harrovian and escorted him towards bemused police officers. Liberal Democrat conference delegates enjoy a day of living quite dangerously
She seems unconcerned; only bemused. Times, Sunday Times
It had all happened so fast and now we too were bemused, not knowing what to do next.
The pupil gave me a rather bemused look before saying he had been last night and preferred their pizzas. Times, Sunday Times
The answer is simple - French beams merely go up and down without deflecting to one side. The French are similarly bemused as to why we stick beam deflectors on our cars!
I am bemused that Metro1 treats the police report in a case like this as if it was dispassionate truth rather than the unsworn testimony of an interested party. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gates Charges Dropped:
He was totally bemused by the traffic system in the city.
I was bemused to hear two men in conversation while they were rummaging through shop bargains.
Bemused, she enquired about their provenance - history - only to be told that they had come from St Andrews.
Burns played the bemused , tolerant observer of Allen's inconsequential ravings.
Throughout their half-hour in the limelight the couple seemed bemused by the turnaround in their fortunes. Times, Sunday Times
He was staring bemusedly at the picture of himself.
I think he was a bit bemused. Times, Sunday Times
The residents of Havana could be forgiven if they currently feel a tad bemused. Times, Sunday Times
This poet regarded the joys of gods with bemused, unshockable, and endlessly credulous respect.
She seems bemused by the idea. Times, Sunday Times
I was slightly bemused by his Oxford donnishness, a role assiduously cultivated.
The Negative Ego is quite bemused by the concept of equality.
Sometimes I think this is all a dream. * shakes head in bemused fashion* It Would Be Hilarious If It Wan't Serious
Tash bemusedly watched the meanderings of her increasingly inebriated castmates as Richard and Hugo attempted to create a way to play checkers with beer bottle tops.
I have gone back into a restaurant on discovering I have been undercharged, and of course the staff have been outwardly grateful, if slightly bemused.
His older, chubbier brother looked slightly bemused. Times, Sunday Times
He's a somewhat rumpled everyman, frequently with a bemused half-smile on his face.
She looked somewhat shaken and bemused by what had happened.
Confronted (quite literally in a number of cases) by full-frontal nudity, Ms Bakewell came across like a slightly shocked, bemused English teacher.
En route to a hotel, we handed out sparkling new cooking pots and jerrycans to bemused beggars.
He looked slightly bemused by all the questions.

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