How To Use Bewilder In A Sentence

A good deal of role confusion and bewilderment as the growing child encounters the newer ways is to be expected and observed.
Leicester were full of verve and energy and, basically, bewildered most of the opposition last season. Times, Sunday Times
They can get better recipes to make popcorn, how they can screw up popcorn so bad bewilders me. Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Cinema Censorship, Quality Woes and Limited Telecom Services
Reliable information indicated that even the staff of the department expressed their bewilderment at some decisions that were taken with respect to the event.
A different reaction or argument of white Southerners in respect to recent events in the South is bewilderment.

All the houses looked bewilderingly similar.
These technologies, with a bewildering numbers of acronyms, are described in many reviews.
Bewildered, I watch her eyes flicker with the memory of sudden shock and amazement.
Mid morning a young girl arrives after a harrowing journey, bewildered by her new surroundings.
Some shoppers looked bewildered by the sheer variety of goods on offer.
Bewildering indeed. Conspiracy theories have emerged faster than mushrooms in a damp Exmoor field. Some claim the shooting was a fiction, dreamed up to discourage trophy-hunters.
Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation.
Some people miss out on care and support simply because they end up confused and bewildered by the process. Times, Sunday Times
In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
Where even the vinously literate search in vain for clues, getting down on their knees to turn over handfuls of soil or gazing down from the crest of the slope in utter bewilderment.
The first couple he tried were both profoundly deaf, and he didn't get much reaction beyond a bewildered smile.
What happened to this mother is tragic, and right now she'll be feeling bewildered and confused. The Sun
There is shock and bewilderment in surrounding mountain villages too, where the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have caused landslides.
She feels flattered by the clamour of attention, if a little bewildered. Times, Sunday Times
From what you can see, the interior is densely packed with a bewildering array of molecules in all shapes and sizes.
His voice is not tinged by irony or scurrility; it reveals instead a mixture of insolence and bewilderment. The Times Literary Supplement
I spent an hour recently trying to explain limericks to a Chinese from Tientsin; which left him bewildered, me frustrated, and the staff of the bar we were in, in hysterics.
Many people feel bewildered by the speed of technological innovation.
Our bewilderment derives from our failure to turn inward and really examine the workings of our own minds.
Here there seems to be bewildering variety both of risks and of claims. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
Eleven years on and the hurried portraits of Dave, Nick and Mat will this week be put up for auction at a sale which will either bewilder people, or get them hunting through drawers for that elusive bit of paper from the time they got the artist to draw them a picture. Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction
When he produced his first few results on 4-manifolds, the ideas were so new and foreign to geometers and topologists that they merely gazed in bewildered admiration.
Many are walking around dazed and bewildered at the shape of things and the grasp of power.
If you are not used to it, the lingo they use can be bewildering. Times, Sunday Times
As the deadline approached she experienced a bewildering array of emotions.
In the blue world we need more understanding of the economic plight of those left behind by globalisation and bewildered by a new multicultural world. Times, Sunday Times
Conan glared bewilderedly at the cryptic golden door. Wings in the Night
The friends stopped again -- poor, short-winded bodies -- on the crest of the low hill and turned to look at the wide landscape, bewildered by the marvelous beauty and the sudden flood of golden sunset light that poured out of the western sky. In Dark New England Days
Foresters are often completely bewildered that local communities resent them.
I feel panic rising in the back of my throat, urgency illuminating my cerebral cortex, and a dark cloud of bewilderment obscuring my vision.
And how awful that poor Mary dies as she lived — stupidly, clumsily, in "bewilderment," running foolishly back and forth. The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark
Behind her, there was another torch lit and another, until the great room itself was filled with lights and illuminations to bewilder even the lavished of all Romans.
The director can be forgiven for trying to make this dated, dynamic bewilderment into a viable dramatic tale.
It's a massive place and the range and diversity of interests is bewildering. Times, Sunday Times
A short stroll through the aisles of the average food hall reveals a bewildering variety of mustards, relishes, sauces, pickles and assorted creams, pastes, chutneys, jellies and condiments from all over the world.
Imagining the ridiculous trigger for the situation, Mallory shook her head in bewilderment.
She stood across the crowd, with something I could only describe as bewildered fascination written all over her expression. Crescendo
Your utterly bewildered and terrified but loving Ma. Spitfire Women of World War II
The three guards selected exited rapidly to carry out their monarch's wishes, and the four left huddled together like a bewildered flock of sheep.
He went for each opponent in a bewildering flurry of movement, using speed and inventiveness to confuse and to scatter the wits of his opponent. Times, Sunday Times
Somewhat bewildered, they abandoned the search and the world heard about yet another maritime tragedy.
Rubbing their eyes, they said in bewildered voices, Catholics shouldn't have voted for Obama? President Obama's Abortion Plan?
He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
And the suggestion that my attitude to my own daughter is distasteful I find bewildering. Times, Sunday Times
Jimmy inquired, his expression exclaiming complete bewilderment. All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
He doesn't need to go far to find his ingredients since Palma's Olivar food market is just around the corner, providing a sensory assault course with its halls filled with a bewildering variety of locally caught fish, kaleidoscopes of seasonal fruit and veg, plus charcuterie counters laden with piquant botifarron blood puddings and varia negra Mapping Mallorca
It's high energy stuff, but it changes shape throughout with bewildering ease and fluidity, from freebop polyrhythmic pummelling to spidery ballad forms to spacey textural exploration.
Some people miss out on care and support simply because they end up confused and bewildered by the process. Times, Sunday Times
Walter listened disbelievingly as O, affecting his familiar attitude of solicitous older brother, encouraged him to see the bright side in the bewildering estrangement proposed. O: A Presidential Novel
Although they were shortened because of the long introduction, I was still bewildered - and a little unnerved - by the fact that Mme LeFay, our directrice, had started our daily routine… on the very first day.
They all looked bewildered and unkempt and had apparently had a very long journey.
I don't know if this is endearing eccentricity or a form of bewildering madness.
One only had to look at the bewilderment and disbelief on their faces to gauge what they must be feeling.
What happened to this mother is tragic, and right now she'll be feeling bewildered and confused. The Sun
Let your love be hallowed," croons a rhapsodic chorus to a married couple, mid-row, in Richard Strauss's bewildering masterpiece, Die Frau ohne Schatten. Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review
Why she continues to receive press coverage bewilders me – unless it's because the press enjoys showing what an uneducated and unintelligent person she is! Obama brushes off Palin on nuclear deal
She is confused, bewildered and despairing. Times, Sunday Times
China both outside tie and bursting every which way in a bewildering rush of transformation.
For those unemployed and with a family, the added worry of responsibility for the next generation must be bewildering.
A visit to the supermarket can present a shopper with a bewildering array of choices.
Confused and disorientated, they struggle to comprehend the bewildering party decrees of revolutionary achievements and industrial progress.
I wish people would expect the unexpected, to be confused and bewildered. Times, Sunday Times
It is these choices that are so bewildering, so mind-boggling, so paralyzing.
Biology, as Burned Man sometimes remarked, was both bewildering and immoderate. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
For some reason, which I could not discover, the sea faunae were greatly attracted by this archipelago, and round the edges of the islands, in rock - pools and sandy bays the size of a large table, there was a bewildering assortment of life. My Family and Other Animals
The owler only refrained because he became aware of his daughter's presence, and to his great bewilderment read in her face not horror or misery, but a strange passionate relief. In Kings' Byways
He was left "close to panic in the bewilderment and hot fear of that first dogfight. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
There is a bewildering array of light fittings costing from a few pounds each to a few hundred pounds. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1223
I've often expressed my bewilderment at the fact that major orchestras haven't rushed to record his music.
The choice of cruise lines and cruise ships is pretty bewildering.
Gardeners shopping for fertilizer face a bewildering array of choices.
There are so many in our price range we soon experienced the old familiar feeling of bewilderment bordering on mania.
Instead, we look upon a bewildered bear dressed incongruously in a white shirt with cuff links. Times, Sunday Times
The only reason they are bewildered is the trust he has broken? Bartlett rips McClellan, calls allegation 'total crap'
The child was bewildered by the noise and the crowds.
The experience of reading it is bewildering at first, with no friendly narrator to hold your hand and just a cacophony of unidentified voices for company. Times, Sunday Times
This has led individual trusts to impose a bewildering range of restrictions. Times, Sunday Times
They emerge blinking in bewilderment at the unfamiliar daylight and smells of the bush.
Bedlam, does some shadow of it hover, to bewilder and bemock the poor inhabitants _there_. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
Behind those doors lay fear, uncertainty, anger and bewilderment. Times, Sunday Times
The human mind bewildered is ever looking for crevices in the great mystery that inwraps the visible universe, and ever hoping that some struggling beam from beyond may point to the best path. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York
It is bewildering that Sardar calls the task assumed by these "arrangers", who are usually female, an "art" involving a "subtle reading of human character and insight into the needs of those involved". Life and style | guardian.co.uk
There is a bewildering variety of software available.
His Grande odalisque, with her soft, curving body and dream-like face, bewildered critics at the Salon of 1819.
Making warding signs and mumbling fearful prayers to Caelus Nin and the Seven Brass gods, the bewildered people of Sumifa fled before her, making for the cliffs, their chickens and goats squawking and bleating in front of them. Song of Time
On every page there are unhappy husbands, bewildered boyfriends, disappointed lovers and delusional relatives.
The marines had bewildered expressions as they unlimbered their assault rifles.
I can remember well my bewilderment and sense of helplessness when given the task of identifying a topic, posing 'the question', creating hypotheses, and identifying an appropriate research methodology.
When I first met him 35 years ago Darling was pressing Trotskyite tracts on bewildered railwaymen at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. Decca Aitkenhead ignores Alistair Darling's Trotskyite past
The fish is served up in a bewildering variety of forms, but probably the most common is boiled cod served with chickpeas. Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
“Mercy on me!” he exclaimed, with a look of the blankest bewilderment. Armadale
There were a number of scared and bewildered children crying in their parents' arms.
Anyone wanting a sense of either the broad methodological coherence of this rapprochement or its sometimes bewildering thematic complexity will find resource here.
Her worshipped image had got a little rubbed and dimmish of late to be sure, but breathe on the colours, and you saw them come out clear, and oh! bewilderingly lovely. The Dop Doctor
Otherwise the neutral zone can become an utterly bewildering array of possibilities.
He spoke pityingly, as if saving a bewildered tourist from a cultural faux pas.
He looks mystified, bewildered, but he likes the idea of these nuns. Times, Sunday Times
The old general store had gone but the shade thorn tree was still there, bewildered by its surround of concrete pavement.
He has gone from sublime form at the end of 2012 to looking confused and bewildered. Times, Sunday Times
Three spins of godawful panpipe muzak versions of Wonderful Tonight and Britney Spears was away; and we all know what happened next – needless to say it involved bald Britney Spears going loopy-doo, a bewildering million-dollar Britney Spears hair sale and a bunch of kickass Britney haikus. Britney Spears Gets Rehab Advice From, Um, Daniel Baldwin
And he abode bewildered about his case and knew not what to do, but, as he was thus behold, in came Abd al-Rahman from his lurking place without the door and said to him, “No harm shall befal thee, for indeed thou deserves” safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
His double strike erased the shame of a bewildering first-half miss.
As the deadline approached she experienced a bewildering array of emotions.
She gazed upon him in bewilderment.
We don't complain because we are embarrassed, bewildered and shocked, too ashamed to do or say anything.
The UCI also finds them bewildering, which is why they're placing new restrictions on time trial bikes. Odds and Bar-Ends: Cannibal Time Trials, Vegan Bikes
Timothy, with a swift motion of his hand, broke his pen and the ink squirted mercilessly over the bewildered woman.
Just going through an experience is only half the story, if you like, providing us with raw materials that are blunt and often bewildering unless we can take a step back and conceptualise what went on. Learning From Stories « Tales from the Reading Room
Reducing the bewildering range of benefits into a single package should also help reduce errors by the officials who run the system. Times, Sunday Times
There's a bewildering array of familiar supervillains and splendid interludes played as Catwoman, along with collectibles, side missions and distractions in a game that oozes the very essence of Batman, from dialogue and character design to the gibbous moon permanently silhouetting its buildings. This week's new games
It's a joy to find this young author coming into his own, and bringing the craft of science fiction out of the backwaters where it's been caught lately between the regressive drag of publishers marketing to a "safe" readership and the bewildering promises of change and growth offered by postmodernism in all its forms and formlessness. Embassytown by China Miéville – review
Basically, they spend their days farting, chewing grass and staring at passing cars with expressions of vague bewilderment.
She was totally bewildered by his message.
Meanwhile it is the bewildered and shocked members who have borne the brunt of the uncertainty.
Very shrewd observations are to be found in his reviews, for instance his indication, in reviewing La Touche's _Fragoletta_, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and "ungraspable" looseness of construction and story, which constantly bewilders the reader as to what is going on. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
They also take their turn kneeling to pray amid the flowers in front of the coffin, peering at the waxily reposed figures with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment.
Her dishevelled hair flew wildly in the wind, framing a bewildered look.
This cognitive dissonance bewilders the countries we like to believe admire us and our way of life. Barbara Crafton: The Death Penalty Is America's Blind Spot
Many people feel bewildered by the speed of technological innovation.
But, throw some big numbers at us and we are left baffled, bewildered or just bored. Times, Sunday Times
Or do you shake your head, overwhelmed by a mixture of bewilderment and fear? Times, Sunday Times
At moments the Republicans would break into cheers or laughter at a phrase or facial expression of one of the two candidates, to the bewilderment of the Democrats.
On Saturday night, Robbie and his partner Ola were tasked with performing the cha-cha-cha, a dance of Cuban origin that apparently involves a bewildered looking man in a black rhinestone-studded hoodie standing ram-rod straight and occasionally flapping his arms about, while his partner gyrates suggestively around him in a manner not dissimilar to a naked Britt Ekland on the other side of Edward Woodward's hotel‑room wall in The Wicker Man. Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning
For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us.
Both appeared dazed and bewildered. Times, Sunday Times
Curiosity was overtaken by bewilderment, bewilderment by shock, and shock by a stringe mixture of relief and amusement. Deadline for Murder
A new book by British psychoanalyst David Tuckett, Minding the Markets, published this month by Palgrave and sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking, may just give us hope for understanding the bewildering and dangerous large group political phenomena that are beleaguering and paralyzing our country. Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Fantastic Objects, Excited Stories and Dreadful Politics
What I find bewildering is that they've chosen to cut a successful, well-loved, thriving arts organisation. Spending review 2010: living with the cuts
Fluctuating wildly between bewildered Dr Jekyll and psychopathic Mr Hyde, Dafoe plays the role with unremitting glee, energy and panache.
This has led individual trusts to impose a bewildering range of restrictions. Times, Sunday Times
The entire vehicle was festooned with a bewildering array of kit.
The scene is still one of bewilderment and fear as reports of abductions and murder grab the headlines.
No one has put together, or, to adopt a more expressive phrase, heaped together such enormous paragraphs; no one has linked clause on clause, parenthesis on parenthesis, epexegesis on exegesis, in such a bewildering concatenation of inextricable entanglement. A History of Elizabethan Literature
I am totally bewildered by the clues to this crossword puzzle.
To the bewilderment of observers, however, the side of the political spectrum that prides itself on its supposed history of "antifascism" has spent its time since 9 / 11 defending jihadists and other militant Muslims. Newsmax - Inside Cover
Among the Rajah's bewildering array of balti choices, two stand out.
The massive, brawny man peered at me in bewilderment as I had managed to stop his blade, and he withdrew, smiling shadily at me.
Mr Golightly experienced a bewildering sense of impotence. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
I couldn't look at her face, flushed with complete bewilderment and even some inexplicable anger.
Some people miss out on care and support simply because they end up confused and bewildered by the process. Times, Sunday Times
The primary job of the literary critic is to pry open the craniums of characters, authors and narrators, climb inside their heads and spelunk through the bewildering complexity within to figure out what makes them tick. Experimental Fiction
The audience, not to mention the bewildered cast, were not amused.
There is a bewildering variety of data available to measure a firm's financial health. Times, Sunday Times
A bad argument is like a bad marriage, marked by rage, perturbation, bewilderment, and stubbornness.
Auntie became excessively pale, and was sometimes quite "distrait" and bewildered-looking, which was little wonder, considering all she had to do and arrange. The Laurel Bush
I recall a marine commanding officer looking around in bewilderment after storming a strongly held Argentine mountain summit at negligible cost. Times, Sunday Times
The island was a town, a huge bewildering grid of twenty-foot and forty-foot boxes stacked on top of each other. BLOOD IS DIRT
To not know is bewildering and only contributes to and compounds the feelings of helplessness and powerlessness that the bereaved parents will feel. Times, Sunday Times
The store offers a bewildering array of garden tools.
He was shattered and bewildered by this trenchant criticism.
In place of imposing rational discovery, the hard-boiled hero experiences bewildering initiation into the violence just under an urbane surface.
But this was disbelief mingled with dismay, fear or plain bewilderment. Times, Sunday Times
The end to persecution was always going to be bewildering.
Shaking her head bewilderedly, Annie said ‘No, I don't understand.’
Sleepless, I carved on the walls fantastic figures in mazy bewildering lines-winged horses, flowers with human faces, women with limbs like serpents.
Meanwhile he looked with bewilderment at the married people he knew, particularly his parents.
It takes a variety of forms and has long bewildered scientists and philosophers because it appears to lack biological purpose.
Biology, as Burned Man sometimes remarked, was both bewildering and immoderate. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Miles Davis, one of the giants of jazz, was also at 1970s event providing a bewildering display of jazz funk and fusion music which left some hippies confused and some begging for more.
She was awake now, and looking about her in bewilderment.
All scored with great panache, to the bewilderment of bowlers who cannot work out how he does it. Times, Sunday Times
Cassandra is bewildered, in fact, when the judges in a courtroom ask her if she was a machine. REVIEW: Crossover by Joel Shepherd
in the smash-up, the debris flies in every direction...giving us a bewildering, mixed up picture that looks a lot like stagflation.
The shot cuts back to Hal, who looks bewildered, and glances back towards Rosemary.
A bare-knuckle, action-driven series, peppered with social commentary and dark humor, STRANGE GIRL is a story about the bewildering nature of religion, what would happen if the dark future predicted by many came true, and what a good person would endure for not having faith in advance of it. Strange Girl gets collected in January | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
The immediate result is a confrontation between an angry and bewildered Pharaoh and Abraham.
Then Gletkin would clear his voice and shove his cuffs into place; and Rubashov would rub his pince-nez on his sleeve and nod bewilderedly and drowsily; for he had identified the tempter with that dumb partner whom he had believed already forgotten, and who had no business in this room, of all places: the grammatical fiction ... Autumn
The temples of Iyemitsu are close to those of Iyeyasu, and though somewhat less magnificent are even more bewildering, as they are still in Buddhist hands, and are crowded with the gods of the Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Sometimes I have the same feeling of bewilderment when I read brochures for financial products.
But in the face of a furious grilling from a clutch of increasingly bewildered MPs - including Motherwell and Wishaw's Frank Roy - he refused point-blank to tell them the correct number to dial.
The substance of the conversation remains private, and the media have wondered aloud in bewildered fashion where the "teachable moment" might be. Archive 2009-07-01
Book written in Heaven, too good for the Earth; as a well-written book, or indeed as a _book_ at all; and not a bewildered rhapsody; Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
But supporting a bewildering variety of good causes is typical of the famous in the late-80s.
This week has been utterly bewildering. Times, Sunday Times
To arrive at the point where the world can be truthfully named in its relation to God involves some grasp of the world as object of pointless, 'futureless' love; it must therefore involve levels of bewilderment, deep emotional confusion and frustration in the process, even a blurring of the boundaries between love and rejection (since we are frightened of replacing ordinary human affection with this radical and disabling love). Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names'
But to go back to work; suddenly, I AM that useless incompetent know-nothing manager whose presence in a position of authority bewilders everyone.
As so often appears to happen with corporate nosedives of this magnitude, the general response from City types seems to be one of total bewilderment.
But there are no sharks today, only bewildered beachcombers, who start to scatter as we approach our beach landing strip.
Be like what promulgated last year " limited partner system " , a few crab tastes first achieve cast an enterprise to also express developing bewilderment on forum.
Charlie looked from one to the other bewilderedly. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
He said: "The options for parents in their efforts to choose the right school or college can be bewildering, really daunting."
These paradoxes often seem bewildering to those not afflicted with the football disease. Times, Sunday Times
The market sold a bewildering variety of cheeses.
There is a bewildering array of environmental and wildlife holidays to choose from.
He was staring at her, his expression totally bewildered. A Hopeless Romantic
He wrote out his rage and bewilderment, which gradually became a form of catharsis leading to understanding.
What is the matter with you, Hanneh Breineh?" cried Mrs. Pelz in bewildered alarm. Hungry Hearts
Some of my favorites include: behoove bewilder bologna ... only because it is not spelled the way it sounds nonetheless ... 3 words in 1! Archive 2009-04-01
There is a bewildering variety of software available.
He looked totally bewildered and kept on repeating, "What are you saying?"
The big essential oil suppliers stock a bewildering array of essences.
A bewildered Uncle Sal scurried next to him, almost identically dressed, supported by Herman's tanned arm. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
As practitioners of the Dharma, we cannot ignore the state of confusion and bewilderment beings are going through.

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