How To Use Fuddle In A Sentence

Pain, cold, and exhaustion fuddled Sara's mind, but she managed to recall the last thing that had happened.
He was befuddled as he swilled the tea around in his mug
Muses that ever fuddled the brain of a garreteer! Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
At elections, when our minds are fuddled by fudged facts and slanted statistics, we ordinary mugs need merely study the smooth political faces on the television - and sniff.
They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.

It always seemed to me that a goot fuddler must be a man of sentiment, but ye are the exception, Tonal ', that proves the rule. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
The kid smiled and vanished, leaving a befuddled scientist to wonder if he'd begun hallucinating.
I have no sympathy," replied Prudence, "with a man who deliberately fuddles himself with strong drink. The Ragged Edge
This question befuddled even the teacher
Many people are puzzled by us, and their anxious befuddlement translates into crude stereotyping or, unconsciously perhaps, a refusal to see us at all. Where are all the lesbians?
At first they glanced at each other, befuddled by the albino girl who stood in nothing but a strapless nightgown.
He returned it with a high looping sidespin shot, the kind that could utterly befuddle a neophyte but would be a lost point against an experienced player. Robot Adept
‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’
Five minutes of concentration on their present problems fuddles my brain beyond the point of intelligent logic. Kenny
Emerging after a bibulous evening, befuddled guests went to recover their coats, only to discover that some of them had ‘walked’.
I was, and am, a rumpish, atrophic female, with a Dr. Demento nimbus of ochre hair and the fuddled, myopic gaze of a small subterranean animal. LIGHT FINGERS
Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
If you fuddle people's brains with legal-speak, they're bound to start thinking about something else, like Turkish immigrants.
When Miss Fiske wrote to inform me of her condition, I was utterly befuddled.
I forgot to tell you all this is set in one of my confused and befuddled future settings.
He said the survey "raised the bar" for other surveys and challenged the polling industry not to "befuddle" politicians, voters and opinion-makers. ANC Daily News Briefing
Sarah felt something stir within her as she gazed at him, her eyes never leaving his and she was befuddled.
The general drink is beer, which is prepared from barley, and is excellently well tasted, but strong, and what soon fuddles. Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Years later, Branson learned the band thought they were being drugged to befuddle them. The Saturday interview: Richard Branson
I was so stunned and momentarily befuddled it never even occurred to me to fire the second barrel.
India's policy makers are getting increasingly worried about the poor quality of economic data that forces multiple revisions to important numbers and befuddles economists and investors. India's Data Worries Need Urgent Solution
Allegedly outstanding investor Lei Jun once fuddle one's cap is celebrated 3 days with showing.
The problem lies in ethical anomie, philosophical befuddlement and the hypocrisy that today permeates every aspect of our so-called civilized world.
As one keeps replacing the other, we easily get befuddled ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment.
The main concern I have against the institution of a usage tax is that simple logic sometimes befuddles Congressmen and therefore, I don't believe they would be able to come up with any sort of tax that would charge fairly for those who benefit from services. High income and Wealth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The old right-wing nostrums which befuddled public opinion in the 1980s and 1990s no longer have the same impact.
Unable to comprehend, Amanda stared at Keira in utter astonishment and befuddlement.
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?
Hot, bothered and befuddled, folk started acting very oddly. Times, Sunday Times
He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute.
Clearly it exists, but it is befuddled, complex, and we all have a different idea about what it is.
And what better to enliven the befuddled mind than chess? Times, Sunday Times
Such befuddlement has been a feature of his presidency, which began in 2006. Disgruntled administrators lament that "only a handful of people" ever know what is going on.
To-night he would birl the bottle with Templandmuir as usual, till the fuddled laird should think himself a fine big fellow as being the intimate of John Gourlay -- and then, sober as a judge himself, he would drive him home in the small hours. The House with the Green Shutters
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
I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
I was worried about leaving Rob with them, in case his simple brain was fuddled by their complex arguments of Just Because, All Right?
Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once. THE SAVAGE GIRL
Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once. THE SAVAGE GIRL
I stumbled out into the early afternoon with my new machine, enough testing strips and pricking lancets to go on with, my marked-up diary and a fuddled brain.
Allegedly outstanding investor Lei Jun once fuddle one's cap is celebrated 3 days with showing.
All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.
Her acting aptly conveys noble spirit and befuddled brain. Times, Sunday Times
For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
When it comes to piecing together a performance, they can, at their worst, resemble a befuddled man confronted by self-assembly furniture.
Trouble is, it's a dangerously ambiguous thing to say and Evangelicals who want to be ‘open and affirming’ are fuddled by the inability to distinguish the theology from the therapy.
One rarely considers the fact that the Ivory Tower is its own sort of reality, with customs and folkways that would befuddle the most conscientious anthropologist.
In our early days, my entering classmates were often befuddled by the kind of readings we were given.
The naming conventions of Intel processors has kept me a bit fuddled for the last few years.
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
The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected.
Fuddlecumjig, they espied a kangaroo sitting by the roadside. The Emerald City of Oz
And and and when I broke up, I was all in a fuddle, a fussle—a muckle. Wildfire
If you and your buddy aren't on the same wavelength, the flood of ambiguous nonverbal cues can lead to misunderstanding and befuddlement.
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
Personally, because I know seniors who are computer masters and middle-age people whose PCs befuddle them, I'd say such a machine might appeal to anyone of any age who needs or craves greater simplicity in a PC. A Simple PC For Seniors Is Complicated By Its Flaws
That second nap in the mornin 'always fuddles the head, and makes it as mothery as ryled cyder grounds. The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete
Most people were befuddled by or misunderstood Full Metal Jacket and had misapprehended The Shining.
All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.
It wasn't as easy as predicted, but the Mexican lightweight backed up his words using quickness and ring savvy to punish and befuddle hometown hero, Gary Balletto.
A cocktail "is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head," Croswell wrote. Cocktails for Candidates
We're not truly looking for games that question, befuddle, teach, insult, mortify, provoke .... that is almost NEVER the underlying reason for an argument. I'd Rather Let The Flowers Keep Doing What They Do Best
For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
When Reagan spoke it sounded as if he "fuddled", a clue not to trust him. Only The English are British
Forget the picture of fuddled labourers reeling in fields at harvest time after draughts of the farmer's rudimentary cider.
And and and when I broke up, I was all in a fuddle, a fussle—a muckle. Wildfire
Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
McBush will fuddle along until Novemeber and I'm going to enjoy a ever so sweet victory of the Dems in control. Tough New MoveOn Ad Demands McCain Fire Lobbyist Charlie Black
Such was his befuddlement at that stage that the supporter could not trace his shoes, so rather than miss the bus to the city, he ran downstairs and jumped aboard the charabanc.
the wino's poor befuddled mind
Karl Johnson as an unreliable toper drifts through the action in a befuddled haze. Noises Off - review
Count me among those befuddled by the apparent widespread confusion between "pseudonymity" and "anonymity". Pseuds vs anons
In his 1920 novel, The Trial, Franz Kafka provided a dizzying look at the senseless complexity of a bureaucracy that seems to exist primarily to befuddle and punish its constituents. Lisa Madigan: Mortgage Companies: Playing Loosely With the Rules of Foreclosure
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. 28 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
A befuddled moment passed before he understood she was referring to his rickety motorcycle and not to their assignment as volunteers. Heaven Lake
You might see his bay mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House, whenever there was any dinner-party at Fuddleston, or at Roxby, or at Wapshot Hall, or at the great lords of the county, with all of whom he was intimate. Vanity Fair
a hollow under some buffalo-bushes and slept the loggish sleep of the befuddled. Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted
The former might confuse the readers and fuddle their comprehension, while the latter might neglect the author's intention and lower the translation's class.
It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inference of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts.
Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, booming ferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
We have an imperfect justice system where poor defendants are given minimal legal attention by often lesser qualified individuals. fuddle duddle says: Death penalty dying? - Need to know - Macleans.ca
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
Something that will let me do a bit of much-needed spring cleaning in my fuddled brain.
Good men have done worse things when ambition fuddles their wits, Conan and The Mists of Door
This clarified things for the more befuddled viewers but reminded all that they were watching a dead person.
The sport of boxing won big time as it again confused and befuddled it's critics.
Having laid out that caveat, allow me to simply state that the success of Twilight befuddles me more than any one book/movie franchise. Archive 2010-04-01
I opened the door and there was no teacher in sight, only several befuddled students.
He was to do this because his brain not befuddled by panic. The Sun
The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
It befuddled me greatly because I couldn't remember doing anything wrong that night, at least not to him.
For the most part, we are benumbed, befuddled or afraid. Judith Acosta: The Great American Trance
Those new ideas often include higher expectations about municipal services that can befuddle local officials.
Mike Myers is back this Summer, bringing with him a new character to entertain and possibly be-fuddle. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
And that is agriculture writ large, not just meat and dairy. fuddle duddle says: Ottawa lowers its emissions reduction targets - Need to know - Macleans.ca
Riders overtake traffic, carving in and out of lanes as befuddled drivers bond in confusion with pedestrians.
Then his normal befuddlement is exponentially enhanced by two very unexpected -- and potentially very dangerous -- visitors from the pound. The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs by Richard Yancey: Book summary
He keeps a clear head whilst she becomes fuddled.
Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once. THE SAVAGE GIRL
The onlooker finds him or herself standing - intrigued or befuddled, or probably both - amid multivarious narratives. Times, Sunday Times
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.
I'm half asleep and I have to streak over to the other side of the house to the keypad and when I get there, I'm all fuddled because the alarm is shrieking, and I'm half-asleep, and I'm so confused, and I blank out on the code.
You can't help but be struck by the sheer befuddled babyishness of the apologists.
Avoid this film unless you want to know the befuddled feeling that comes of toking on a bong for a few seconds too long.
I'm still befuddled by the speed with which these were produced, in a kitchen featuring two gas burners and one ancient electric mixer.
If an author fuddles himself, I don't know why he should be let off a headache the next morning -- if he orders a coat from the tailor's, why he shouldn't pay for it .... ' Prose Fancies
Strong emotion fuddles the fingers - "I will be fightining for the establishment of the English Parliament with might and main - and rather better typing! What we need to learn from the Fall of Glasgow East
Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once. THE SAVAGE GIRL
The cannabis debate can fuddle the brain almost as much as the drug itself.
My thoughts were fuddled and I thought for a few minutes that my mind was just tired, but in the end I decided it wasn't that I was tired… it was that I wasn't going to fight my thoughts when I knew they weren't lying to me.
The heat had fuddled my brain.
Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once. THE SAVAGE GIRL
And most times - after a moment or two of befuddlement and confusion - I saw that the computer gizmo was right.
The first five minutes of the debate saw historians, learned meeja types and BBC presenters using the silly word "befuddlement" so often I'm sure someone behind the scenes had dared them. The Daily Record - Home
The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
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
Or, at least, that's the plan, because what they've actually done is generate an amount of befuddlement and head-scratching.
A scorching weekend was full of spins as the slick surface of "The Track Too Tough To Tame" left drivers slapping the wall in befuddlement. Denny Hamlin earns Darlington sweep with Southern 500 win
Moroxes in their befuddlement are the near-opposite of a structure known as the Tom Swifty, where the adverb modifies a verb or noun to form a pun. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2
Spenc Canada – nice cogent arguments. fuddle duddle says: Ottawa lowers its emissions reduction targets - Need to know - Macleans.ca
Any royal guards that came into this place would, of course, stop for a pint, and by the time he'd finished Murphy's ale, he'd be too fuddled to lace his own boots, much less discover the whole world that existed just below the dirty floor.
The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
The heat had fuddled my brain.
But I reserve the right to feel that their thinking is fuddled.
Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once. THE SAVAGE GIRL
Too often carers accused of theft claim that their victim was befuddled. Times, Sunday Times
A very befuddled teenager soon found himself pushed and locked out of the room.
The French ruling on the banning of the niqab (the full face veil) together with the banning of minarets in Switzerland were some of the most stunning legislations to emerge from Western Europe in recent years, a sadly predictable response to the rise of a more and more publicly expressed ritualization of Islam which befuddles many in the Muslim diaspora too. Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World
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.
The rapture is just around the cornor anyway so why preserve the earth ? fuddle duddle says: Ottawa lowers its emissions reduction targets - Need to know - Macleans.ca
The political factions, often casting patricians against plebeians and Guelphs against Grimaldis, befuddles all but the most analytic minds. David Finkle: First Nighter: Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Met's Ravishing Simon Boccanegra
I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
There was no drunkenness, as drunkenness is ordinarily understood -- no staggering and rolling around, no befuddlement of the senses. Chapter 32
You might see his bay-mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House, whenever there was any dinner-party at Fuddleston, or at Roxby, or at Wapshot Hall, or at the great lords of the county, with all of whom he was intimate. XI. Arcadian Simplicity
Only in the first Brahms did the composer's characteristic nightmare of cross-rhythms befuddle the chorus. Concert review: National Master Chorale at National Presbyterian Church
He was lucky to be spared a long fuddled decline into the garbage heap.
There's another factor at work here, a kind of commercial disingenuity that aims to befuddle the listener on his own ground.
Wow, man! for a fuddler ye exhibit a most extraordinary want o 'perception in the more delicate affairs o' human life. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
Even then, the details of how I had gone and gotten myself a boyfriend befuddled me.
Although the author affects befuddlement, his book demonstrates an unfaltering sense of self.
Who knows what little games he played in his mind before it became befuddled by morphine?
Let them find their own way out of their befuddlement: There is no need to spoon-feed them.
Sands his sugar and brown-papers his teas philanthropically, for the good of the public, and denounces men who put in Old Squareface and whisky-pegs, as he fuddles himself with his loquat brandy after shop-hours in the sitting-room back of the store. The Dop Doctor
Fuddled by brandy,[sentence dictionary] her brain fumbled over the events of the night.
He looked around the room blankly, an expression of befuddlement on his face. Among the Ghosts
He must have been perpetually befuddled and dismayed by his downfall. Times, Sunday Times
He is a witty, engaging presence in the early comic scenes, portraying the doctor with soft-spoken befuddlement.
Verlan originated in the 19th century as a secret language used by youths and criminals to befuddle authority figures. Times, Sunday Times
For fans too fuddled by technology to get to grips with the membership scheme which allowed free downloads from the French band's website, this will be much more reassuringly old-fashioned.
She told me, her eyes widening with the mystery that befuddled me earlier.
The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
I do have to admit to being a little befuddled by what's going on in terms of the descriptions.
Unsteady on their feet, uncoordinated, befuddled and bewildered. The Sun
Hamla Ombashi is a corporal of the transport service, and "fuddle" is to sit down. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
Most of us go through life overthinking hamburgers or pretty girls or bad people; the Marx Brothers eat them, kiss them and befuddle them. The World Turned Upside Down
Alongside the reliable, quietly impressive Umar Gul , during the recent series Junaid Khan emerged as a canny, reliable bowler with some Asif-like qualities, while Aizaz Cheema looks lively, and the extraordinary windmilling flail of arms resembling a cartoon fight that constitutes the bowling action of Pakistan's Sohail Tanvir continues to have the occasional capacity to befuddle the best. Pakistan Shows Resilience Amid Turmoil
But he worries that they can be misused, misinterpreted and even befuddle someone who is truly inebriated. Testing the Limits of Tipsy
You're skipping this paragraph, but my pleasure in recalling this production must overrule your bored befuddlement.
A good many, however, remained behind -- some because they did not like fights, some because they did not believe that the parties were in earnest, others because they were too much taken up with and oppressed by their own sorrows, and a few because, being what is called fuddled, they did not understand or care anything about the matter at all. Charlie to the Rescue
In a lonesome land, where amusements are few and the nights long, the power to "fuddle" counts for much. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
In Robin: Search for a Hero no one bothered to fix the misdirected word balloons on page 32 that fuddle up a conversation between Tim and Dick Grayson. Archive 2009-08-01
I was a bit fuddled, but it's certainly a very strange album.
I am as befuddled as you are when I try to read that deliberately abstruse text.
Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once. THE SAVAGE GIRL
She dies of a heart attack, he's too befuddled to inform the authorities. Times, Sunday Times
Henry has now taken his place as one of the top striking threats in Europe, while Kanu's languid, idiosyncratic flights of fancy regularly befuddle Premiership defenders.
The early C minor quartet has elements of greatness imbued in it but the ideas are slightly fuddled and the composer was to improve quite immeasurably later.
Brooke glanced around at the girls, whose befuddled faces told her how stupid this must have looked.
He felt fuddled and wayless, and the track gyred higher and higher. Cold Mountain
Even today her media hagiographers like to affect the notion that she spoke an intrinsic Aussie truth which has escaped those lofty elitists who befuddle their brains by actually reading a book or two.
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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