muddle

How To Use muddle In A Sentence

• Here in India, especially in relatively small cities like Dehra Doon, it feels like half magic a lot of the time and the only way to live through the muddles is to be determined to find them funny.
• But the situation is, frankly, in a muddle right now.
• I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season? Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
• I moved back to the window and stared again at the muddled urban view where the new intermingled with the old. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• It was the passionate, slightly muddled rancour of a disappointed man.
• He left his clothes in a muddled pile in the corner.
• My own church had a rather muddled concept of algetic offering that at least produced the proper endurance-discipline. The Golden Torc
• And as he continued to stare at her hat and think, the hurt he had received passed away, and he found himself cudgelling his brains for some way out of the muddle -- for some method by which she could remain on Berande. Chapter 13
• To be a muddle-headed aesthete, even to be interested in the aesthetic qualities of literature at all, has long been anathema to a certain kind of critic, grounds for accusing writers of being morally deficient, but why, for example, would it probably not occur to these critics to declare, say, composers too interested in art, too attentive to the needs of form over those of morality? Narrative Strategies
• Shaped like a large wooden pestle, the muddler is a must for summer drinks, like the Mojito or Mint Julep, which require muddling to bring out the mint's flavor. Stories from The Sun