How To Use Confusedly In A Sentence
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The islands show dimly grey amid a welter of grey water, breaking angrily in short, petulant seas, which buffet boats confusedly and put the helmsmen's skill to a high test.
Priscilla's Spies
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Recalling confusedly the torturing hurry of his late journeys, he dreaded, as his consciousness of the whole situation returned, the coming of the guards.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
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She was sighing over her hastily-unfolded tube map, looking confusedly at its contents.
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The sensory qualities of such an object are therefore no more than passing accidents, through which its essence is dimly and confusedly perceived.
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There were women weeping around — I hung over it, and joined my sad tears to theirs — all this time no distinct idea presented itself to my mind; but my thoughts rambled to various subjects, reflecting confusedly on my misfortunes, and their cause.
Chapter 23
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And for the other part of memory, called reminiscence, which is the retrieving of a thing, at present forgot, or but confusedly remembered, by setting the mind to hunt over all its notions, and to ransack every little cell of the brain.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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So I made my way to the Javits Center on Friday morning, the relief-effort collection point where would-be volunteers confusedly gaggled around, trying to figure out how to be useful.
Usefulness In A Crisis: My 9/11 Story | ATTACKERMAN
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The materialist who doesn't understand this confusedly thinks of patterns made by atoms as being matter itself.
Against Darwinism
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Tishy Grendon," with all the pieces of the game on the table together and each unconfusedly and contributively placed, as triumphantly scientific.
The Awkward Age
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Many of the people of Bakassi would have, unconfusedly, become Camerounians.
BAKASSI
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It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary and scattered confusedly over the face of the country; but that they commence at about one hundred and fifty miles from the sea-coast, are disposed in ridges, one behind another, running nearly parallel with the sea-coast, though rather approaching it as they advance northeastwardly.
Notes on the State of Virginia
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In that respect – in taking seriously, even if confusedly or imperfectly, heretical notions like design – I think the book does very well for itself.
Blast From the Past
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Queen Augusta wrote him an hysterical letter in which she confusedly sympathised with him
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The young man, in other words, unconfusedly smiled -- though indeed as if assenting, from principle and habit, to more than he understood.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1
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He tried to cast a weak, faint smile at me, and confusedly, shyly, I lowered my eyes.
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If they adopt the second view of inherence, which is preferred by some metaphysical natural philosophers, and regard space and time as relations (contiguity in space or succession in time), abstracted from experience, though represented confusedly in this state of separation, they find themselves in that case necessitated to deny the validity of mathematical doctrines a priori in reference to real things (for example, in space) -- at all events their apodeictic certainty.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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For example, if one places a compass on the ground, it spins confusedly without finding a set destination.
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Girls ought to get married," he added, struggling confusedly with this first experience with femininism.
In Orchard Glen
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Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) confusedly attacked the science of climate change: George, the idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical.
Wonk Room » The WonkLine: April 20, 2009
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Since I was very young, whenever I'm off-colour and feverish I have the following recurring vision as I wander confusedly in the no-man's land between consciousness and sleep.
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He blinked confusedly, stood up, pulled the grass out of his hair, straightened his tie and cleared his throat.
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I was over in Mill Valley last night," Dave began confusedly.
When the World Was Young
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I thought of the necessarily impersonal flurry of activity around the woman's window as she confusedly watched a now very small world go by.
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Max frowned confusedly and she felt guilt overwhelm her as she realized how muzzy he was.
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His methods of consolation, his pulling of himself together -- it was all extremely commonplace, but then he was an essentially commonplace man, and saw things unconfusedly, one at a time, with no entanglement of motives or complicated searching for origins.
The Wooden Horse
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There was a veritable rash of young white guys, running confusedly around the electorate brandishing postcards.
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Her mouth opened and closed like a mudskipper as she bleated confusedly, Lord Mountrachet?
The Forgotten Garden
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When the purchaser presents himself, they withdraw these bags from the pressure to which they are subject; the merchant, with a careless air, gives a slight push with his fist to the bottom of the crown, to raise it up, smooths the front upon his knee, and presents to your eyes an object at once whimsically fantastical, which recalls confusedly to your memory those fabulous head-dresses favored by box-keepers, aunts of opera dancers, or duennas of provincial theaters.
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
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I recalled confusedly the warning of the Chief of Police and father not to say anything of what I had seen.
The Other Side of the Door
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Miriam brushed off her tears, quickly but unconfusedly.
The Tragic Muse
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Too much occupied with the acquaintances which they would be able to form and the invitations it might perhaps be possible to secure, they knew absolutely nothing, even in after-years, of what there was in this priceless museum of the archives of the Monarchy, and could only recall confusedly that it was decorated with cacti and giant palms which gave this centre of social elegance a look of the palmarium in the Jardin d’Acclimatation.
The Guermantes Way
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They will pile the scrap outside their warehouse, half formed prophets who stagger away confusedly, their perfect teeth askew.
Prophetstown
