How To Use Bemusement In A Sentence
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Of particular bemusement is the Lib Dem and Tory refusal to speak up for the "more powers for Holyrood" option which they seemed to be desirous of before the election.
Empty chairs at empty tables
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The vocals are supported by guitar, violin and keyboard and, of course, the occasional handclaps, providing an up-beat, cheery backing to the shopping of Argos customers (who pass by with looks of bemusement).
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Her bemusement wasn't based on the objectification of women or any perceived sexism - she thinks my male friends and I are too posh, too nice, to use such "laddish" terms.
The Guardian World News
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In total bemusement, Peter stood before one, then another, and another of the unframed canvases that circled the walls.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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The name caused a lot of bemusement, but over the course of his life Dryfess obligingly chose to respond to several different variations of it.
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The strange songs he would sing during his morning shower were a constant source of bemusement to all who had the luxury of hearing his rhapsody.
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As they watched in bemusement she reached sand and promptly sank ankle-deep, wobbling precariously, grabbing at air for support, her balance an uncertainty from moment to moment.
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Ian looked again, then turned toward Alice with an expression halfway between skepticism and bemusement.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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Progressives have watched in bemusement the past year and half as Reid, reviled as the spineless embodiment of Democratic weakness, has emerged as a liberal champion in opposition to the White House.
Harry Reid, The Man Who Never Says Goodbye
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Villagers in Muslim-dominated Seith on the western tip of Ambon island watched in bemusement as their main guest, a Christian traditional leader, enjoyed durian with the other guests on one rainy January day.
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Like Gary Larson’s The Far Side, Anywhere But Here can leave you scratching your head in bemusement almost as often as it makes you laugh, but we’ve selected the very best of his first two volumes for this special collection, printed in an elegant two-color edition.
License Request Day: Prix Asie
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Others expressed painful bemusement about how this could have happened to the healthy and successful young man standing beside her in recent photographs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The outburst caused some bemusement, because at least three of his opponents are frontline politicians.
Times, Sunday Times
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The consumers masticated their burgers and fries as they regarded the crowd with silent bemusement.
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His expression sobered slightly, although he continued to smile with faint bemusement while he smoothed a strand of hair away from her temple with his forefinger.
Leftover Love
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It is a pastime that many pakistanis greet with bemusement.
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Chapel was studying him with an expression of bemusement.
Dreams of the Raven
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Environmental groups and other observers were left scratching their heads in bemusement.
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IT is very easy to be snooty about the work of John Steinbeck who, to the bemusement of many, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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Shoppers stared in bemusement at the mysterious object that landed in a shopping precinct in Poole, Dorset, this week.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Post-Tort Christmas Tree
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Americans like myself tend to respond to Dutch pragma-dialectics with a bit of bemusement – that the work is interesting to think about, but that their ideal speech act looks like nothing we have ever encountered in our daily lives, and it most certainly looks nothing like an open forum.
Matthew Yglesias » The American Way
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Every few pages there is a quote (almost all well chosen) to add enlightenment or bemusement.
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Yet this same group is expressing bemusement at the uproar in Britain and across the world caused by their plans to bring press regulation under statutory control.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man in the blue shirt and khaki shorts has a look of bemusement on his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Public bemusement with modern art is shared by Her Majesty, a new book has revealed.
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“Why wouldn’t it be?” he said, his expression morphing into bemusement.
Nevermore
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Evidence of this came two years ago when, to some bemusement, property prices began to play catch-up with less traumatised parts of the county.
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He was also Carl Crook, an Anglo-Canadian teenager, and the middle aged businessman he has become – still living in China – looks back on his tumultuous youth now with an air of vague bemusement.
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I particularly loved the businessman washing his hands and shaking his head in bemusement at the sticker in the mirror.
Friday memes and random thoughts
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Imitating their elders on such occasions, they stuffed themselves with a lot of food and drink, and roared with merriment to the bemusement of all the diners around.
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I watched with bemusement as he dummied and juggled with the ball.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.
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He vacillates between childlike bemusement and childlike trepidation.
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The former England manager divides opinions in his homeland but the predominant emotions were sympathy and a degree of bemusement.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was clear that many viewed the famed incompetence of the modern English housewife and mother with bemusement.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.
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While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
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Asked to describe its colour, she replied ‘gosling green’, much to the bemusement of the locals.
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To his bemusement there was no chill, or else the chill was lost on him.
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Once again this weekend, with a predictability that might be noteworthy were it not so dreadful, the country is busily tearing itself apart as the rest of the world looks on in agonised bemusement.
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The man in the blue shirt and khaki shorts has a look of bemusement on his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bemusement, uncertainty, insecurity, affliction are all tokens of an unremitting struggle; however stylish, the words are always about something, they are never in vacuo or for display.
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This they explained away with laconic bemusement, observing that the break occurred while moving a stubborn prisoner, and “the soldier concerned had placed the handguard against a VC head with considerable force.”
The Gun
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Aggressive linguistic subversiveness, which used to be his hallmark, has dwindled into charm; sheer amazement has become indistinct bemusement.
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The billboards advertising it that towered over the slums of Mumbai were met with bemusement and anger.
Times, Sunday Times
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It buys him first bemusement, then solicitation, and finally enmity and a serious whack upside the head.
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With alternating awe and bemusement, Paul watches as his entrepreneur wife multitasks, plunging herself into the center of whatever she touches - creating, re-creating, changing, improving.
