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
Pretty soon I overheard a conversation between two muddled buyers.
Put the sugar, lemongrass, lime and a good pinch of ginger strips into a shaker and muddle them together well. Times, Sunday Times
The situation remains muddled in center field.
Willy-nilly and no doubt unwillingly, he is then drawn into the fight; in an instant the man in the middle has become the man in a muddle and nothing at all has been achieved.
Put the sugar, lemongrass, lime and a good pinch of ginger strips into a shaker and muddle them together well. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, the Penguins muddled to a sixth place finish in the regular season standings with a .500 record to become one of eight playoff qualifiers.
You can say that you genuinely forgot, or got muddled up or fibbed. Times, Sunday Times
The resulting policy muddle might best be solved by looking to last week's durable goods report, and to an old standby. Times, Sunday Times
Soak with bitters and gently muddle with a spoon.
It was the passionate, slightly muddled rancour of a disappointed man.
For understandable reasons we prefer to think of ourselves as rational agents who live meaningful lives rather than as muddled actors in a theatre of the absurd.
Detail was muddled, and there were occasional specks and flecks in the print.
I came across a heart-warming story of love and humanity in this crazy muddle of politics and religion.
For the moment, British European policy is as muddled as ever.
Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up .
He sometimes muddles me up with other patients.
And, while I'm at it, I think that it's ridiculous to believe in transubstantiation, that considering the Bible to be the literal word of God reduces that supposedly omnipotent being to a muddle-headed maniac and that the Hindu caste system and Roman Catholic rules against contraception could have been invented by Satan. If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one
You are currently in a muddle where financial and emotional concerns are tangled together.
Both have severe range limitations, but the mono is cleaner and not as muddled as the stereo.
Not some muddlehead working outside the duopoly to fight the corporations all his life? Democrats Against Truth
There is fleeting footage of everyone from Nick Cave to New Order, but one critic dismissed it as a structureless muddle.
There were problems, but we muddled through somehow.
It is a measure of the muddle that is Ms. Gallagher's book that she doesn't find anything odd about describing the lure of a rural life redolent of 19th-century America as a type of "neophilia. Taking a Novel Approach to Life
Your barmen know how to muddle a mean Mojito, and house DJs pump out loud and happy vibes until late.
His thoughts were muddled with emotions, and he wasn't sure of anything.
The finest leaves get muddled for the drink; imperfect leaves go into a simple syrup.
He was still muddled in his thoughts when the servants took away the last course - mostly untouched, as the silence and sobriety had damaged everyone's appetite.
The New York Jets have been the most muddled.
The evidence is so muddled and conflicted when it comes to the efficacy of coercive interrogation that I find it hard to justify these tactics at all, especially given the blowback from their use.
These men who had awakened, laughed dissolvent laughs, and the old muddle of schools and colleges, books and traditions, the old fumbling, half-figurative, half-formal teaching of the Churches, the complex of weakening and confusing suggestions and hints, amidst which the pride and honor of adolescence doubted and stumbled and fell, became nothing but a curious and pleasantly faded memory. In the Days of the Comet
Rolled muddlers, tied-down minnows, mickey finns, chum and coho fry are just a few of the patterns soon to be presented by eager fly-fishers.
It was all well intentioned but that's the old muddle.
It's this kind of muddled headed logic that seems now so typical of his cockeyed view on many issues.
Sorry about the mess - we're in a bit of a muddle at the moment.
Director James Robinson provides only the most rudimentary blocking, often, as in the muddled party scene, to the detriment of the drama.
This was a process with a beginning, a muddle and an end. Times, Sunday Times
The house was in an awful muddle by the time the children left.
And by “shed some light,” I mean “freak us the hell out and make us wonder about this mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world.” Heene family's TV past: Now, like Balloon Boy, we all want to barf | EW.com
As I am forced to explain to my frequently muddle-headed undergraduate students, just because a trait or condition may not be chosen is insufficient to establish that any act that flows from it is fine, as it would justify all of sorts of acts that they would otherwise object to. The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?
A muddled, confused research question will likely lead to equally muddled and confused results. Sociology
You are currently in a muddle where financial and emotional concerns are tangled together.
But the bureaucratic muddle began after ministers farmed the project out to the Confederation of Scottish Local Authorities, the umbrella body for councils.
Willy-nilly and no doubt unwillingly, he is then drawn into the fight; in an instant the man in the middle has become the man in a muddle and nothing at all has been achieved.
The boundaries between history and storytelling are always being blurred and muddled.
All governments have a beginning, a muddle and an end. Times, Sunday Times
Sam recommends using a good muddler (a small baseball bat-like bar tool).
Why is it that you only talk to people on days when you are feeling so muddle-headed that you cannot be witty and amusing even on topics you find of interest?
The real difficulty is that, for all its weird and wonderful action, Le Morte d'Arthur is as muddled, ramblingly repetitive and inconsistent as a dream. The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review
There were no signs of the muddled, half-finished goddess statements and in their place was a niftier line in tailoring. Times, Sunday Times
I ignored her, concentrating instead on casting my muddler minnow into the river.
To argue we should be allowed to act unreasonably is entirely muddle-headed and morally wrong.
For the most part I have been muddleheaded, and any motivation and good intentions tend to ebb and flow .... Brouillon - French Word-A-Day
The thinking behind how to go about addressing the perceived problem has been muddle-headed.
While he is unsparing in his descriptions of the muddle, indecision and plain deceit in the preparation and conduct of the rising, he does communicate something of the small-scale grandeur of it all.
But that's muddled thinking: the point of those terms legally is first to put players on notice that Blizzard makes these claims, and second to estop players from trying to dispute them. One Lawsuit to Rule Them All
Amid the muddle, Australia and New Zealand, the region's most influential powers, stood aghast as outrage followed outrage.
As extra features, Sony has included two brief and uninspired EPK style featurettes and a rash of muddled and unimpressive deleted material.
Skinny strips of chicken are quickly cooked in a softened muddle of onion and ginger with a hint of chilli and lemon. Times, Sunday Times
They are incredibly short-sighted and muddle-headed in matters that are outside their businesses but affect the possible survival of business in general. The Friedmanite argument for regulation
Not only are you the idiot of the month, you're the braindead cretin of the month and the muddleheaded halfwit of the month as well.
Talking through teeth gritted against the gelid wind, we converse in a muddle of French, English and Arabic.
The culminating crisis resolves itself as a muddle-through, a bend rather than a sharp turn in the road.
It's easy to muddle up some Spanish and Italian words.
Now this is not a neutral position, this is not a muddled position.
But his previous position on the most pressing issue of the day -- the war in Iraq -- is disturbing, if not downright muddlehead ... Lionel Beehner: Does Obama Favor Biden's Plan To Break Up Iraq?
All this action does is muddle the faithful and bring the faith into needless disrepute.
Yet we find in the nineteenth century a muddled picture, a sort of cross-pollination of positions.
If we attempt to separate these two according to outer procedures we shall end in a muddle.
This reviewer, however, questions whether Bryan was such a muddler as Secretary of State.
As my explanations here are probably above your understand-ings, lattlebrattons, though as augmentatively uncomparisoned as Cadwan, Cadwallon and Cadwalloner, I shall revert to a more expletive method which I frequently use when I have to sermo with muddlecrass pupils. Finnegans Wake
Small firms are choking to death in a planning process increasingly marked by bureaucratic muddle and delay.
Her hearing and sense of touch were perfect if not a bit muddled but for the life of her she could not move one muscle.
The more you explain yourself,the more you bemuddle me.
The idea that in such an agonistic system any truth or justice, or even true facts, reliably result is, to my mind, quite analogous to the muddle of “the invisible hand” in economics, or the idea that “competition” necessarily results in an optimal market. Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera « Antiwar.com Blog
A head cold hit me like an anvil last week, and that usually means I'm going to feel too dopey or muddled to write a review.
The government is guilty of muddled thinking. Times, Sunday Times
The letter of recommendation could have got lost in the muddle and fog of war. The Sun
Even now I can smell the muskiness at the heart of the clustered grapes, the same darkness that inhabits the thicket in the park, hatches moth wings, hides muddles of draggled feathers as they disintegrate.
Using a citrus reamer, muddle the leaves until they are dark green and pasty; the total volume should reduce by about half, and they should have released quite a bit of liquid.
I try hard to keep track of the departing guests on the way out, but by the third hotel stop, I'm in a terminal muddle: no matter how many times I crosscheck with the pile of lists on my clipboard, I seem to be one down.
Other than that, most of us muddle along with our stresses and anxieties. Times, Sunday Times
Still, I certainly and completely understand why you're all in a muddle.
The whole affair was, he insisted, a "muddle rather than a fiddle".
Initially, the intentions of the West in intervening were muddled and unclear.
It is unfair and unjust that so much muddled thinking has informed the debate right from the beginning.
Alexander remained as certain of the turns to take as I was muddled.
The moral may have become muddled over the centuries, but the music the story is set to remains wonderful.
And our media now muddle or mendaciously confuse what the public happens to be interested in with older concepts of ‘the public interest’.
I'm afraid I'm a little muddled. I'm not exactly sure where to begin.
Successive tight close-ups of the star's rugged features reveal expressions that are less tensely pensive than muddled and confused.
Requiring your bartenders to cut the lemons and muddle them in front of the customer each time a drink is ordered is too arduous.
The Commerce Committee, even though it refrained from making a recommendation, has pointed out that the passage of this law would just add confusion to an already muddled area.
As for the figure at the center of the story, Mr. Horwitz sees him too often as the grim Old Man of long-ago histories: bold, arrogant, sly, fanatical, murderous, muddle-headed and possibly insane. An Angry Prophet
The whole question of the Scottish parliament is a constitutional muddle and it needs to be sorted out.
The government is guilty of muddled thinking. Times, Sunday Times
I have been getting the title muddled up with a track on the new Client album which is called Undefined
It is a clear example of the muddle produced by politicians dabbling in areas they do not understand. Times, Sunday Times
I often muddle up Richard with his brother.
You muddle through, reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck.
: draft (rough draft) brouillon, brouillonne (adjective) untidy, disorganized un brouillon, une brouillonne = a muddler, muddlehead French Word-A-Day:
The old lady gets in a muddle trying to work the video.
The cleaner had muddled my papers, and I couldn't find the one I wanted.
The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment.
In the paper which you represent, I noticed an article which I took to be an effusion from your muddled brain, stating that I had "cabbaged" a number of valuable articles from you the night I took you out of the streets of Washoe City and permitted you to occupy my bed. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
From these, in a narrow and a dirty street devoted to such callings, Mr Wegg selects one dark shop-window with a tallow candle dimly burning in it, surrounded by a muddle of objects vaguely resembling pieces of leather and dry stick, but among which nothing is resolvable into anything distinct, save the candle itself in its old tin candlestick, and two preserved frogs fighting a smallsword duel. Our Mutual Friend
I felt muddled up when I came to the new class.
Have you heard of using that muddler to actually muddle the sugar, lime and mint?
In other hands it would dissolve into a hopeless muddle of ideas.
The team managed to muddle through another season.
In 1923, a self-trained Adventist geologist named George McCready Price took White's vision and turned it into a 700-page magnum opus called "The New Geology," where he set the standard for all the muddle-headed creationist pseudo-science that was to follow. Matt J. Rossano: Creationism: That (Not So) Old Time Religion
This legal muddle was to prove an unremovable stumbling clock, and to frustrate yet again years of efforts - just when these efforts were at last showing promise of bearing fruit and forcing our institutions to account for their deeds
The quote and source may be a little muddled, but the sentiment still stands.
He gave a long and well-intentioned but muddleheaded and boring speech about the whole concept he keeps blathering on about.
Growth could be anaemic for years, but we will muddle through somehow. Times, Sunday Times
Fifteen years after the broken engagement, her attraction to Eddie was muddled neither by youth nor by the threat of matrimony.
It's a muddled and unsatisfying mix of both. Times, Sunday Times
The two distinct categories are muddled in a manner that is difficult to separate analytically.
And the other false equivalency that makes politics so very muddled is that ‘democrats are exactly the same as republicans’ when their policies are quite different. Think Progress » Rendell: Fox News Hosts ‘Deserve More Credit’ Than Tea Party Movement For Marshaling Anger
I'd be willing to bet the muddler would do well on bass Does anybody else on here fly fish for crappie? If so what flies do you use?
The central case is that China will muddle through with strong fundamental demand underpinning property prices, and deep government pockets backstopping the banks. Chinese Property Collapse 101
Either you are going to have to do a major structural rethink or just accept the status quo and muddle on. Times, Sunday Times
Then there's the mess and muddle that the name issue causes. Times, Sunday Times
He says: ‘Ordinary events got Jennings in a muddle and we can identify with these.’
Outhouse plant is sometimes called coneflower, but don't muddle it up with purple coneflower Echinacea. Thestar.com - Home Page
It was this, rather than an errant decimal point, that caused the initial muddle. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing beats seeing a fish chase a muddler as you strip it across the surface.
Yes, there was muddle and delay, and many in Russia, not least families of those lost, will be asking questions about how the news came out, and whether international help at an earlier stage could have saved any of the submariners.
Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments.
This was a process with a beginning, a muddle and an end. Times, Sunday Times
New students can cling to one another like life rafts to begin with and get into muddled relationships. The Sun
Not only is it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal ivory, but the message becomes muddled. Times, Sunday Times
Fifteen years after the broken engagement, her attraction to Eddie was muddled neither by youth nor by the threat of matrimony.
Our patient is crowned king and expected to sort out this delightfully convoluted muddle.
What he required of us was that we avoided specious or muddled argument.
Decide what you want in life - don't just muddle along.
If the soldiers seem slow and muddleheaded, their leaders are even more so. Movie Review – Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
They made up this muddled compromise out of all of them.
The money was muddled up with everything else in his pocket.
Using a citrus reamer, muddle the leaves until they are dark green and pasty; the total volume should reduce by about half, and they should have released quite a bit of liquid.
I am their dad but it all gets muddled sometimes. Times, Sunday Times
After all, this bass is the instrument of his youth, one of his iconic symbols, as Mr. Carlin affirms on the way to this muddle-up of the moment: It is his Rosebud, his Excalibur. McCartney Keeps the Biographers at Bay
Another point that Sanchez muddled is that the liberal leaning of many reporters (lucky for someone like me who devotes his life to eradicating hate crime!) is far more of a socio-cultural issue than a religious one. Brian Levin, J.D.: Rick Sanchez and the Right to be Wrong
How to make them: Get what's known as a Lewis bag, a canvas sack that you pack with ice and then hit with an accompanying wooden mallet or muddler $20 for bag, muddler and shaker, after5catalog.com . With Ice, Size Matters
He managed to muddle through university.
All governments have a beginning, a muddle and an end. Times, Sunday Times
Condon takes a sympathetic line, though, in his absorbing cine-biography which promotes the view that however muddled he was, Kinsey was brave to try using scientific methods to explain sex in an age of unreason.
Fast-moving fun for younger viewers, centring on Lizzie Forbes, whose overworked imagination often embroils her in misunderstandings, muddles and miscellaneous mayhem.
You muddle through, reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck.
Either you are going to have to do a major structural rethink or just accept the status quo and muddle on. Times, Sunday Times
However, I do not want to further muddle an already confusing issue with what, for most of us, are technicalities.
The unnatural but popular division between righteous and unrighteous anger can get many people in a theological and practical muddle.
Our appreciation of beauty in a work of art becomes muddled with familiarity.
The story is pretty generic and the action scenes vary in quality, some were crisp and exiting, others were muddled, digitally-enhanced blurs.
He ends by saying that sadly his guess is that the screening programme will continue to muddle along within the insular world of the ministry.
he made a muddle of his marriage
Her combination of high seriousness, insight, and muddle-headedness establishes, in the earlier parts of the novel, the contiguity of inspiration and comedy.
You talk about the ‘undercurrent of muddlement’ and I love the way you've used the word ‘muddlement’, because ‘muddlement’ almost has an onomatopoeia; there is muddlement in ‘muddlement’.
Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor.
When biased and muddle-headed people disagree with you chances are their arguments are based on faulty thinking and misinformation.
It was interesting to watch, at the Saturday night vigil, my exemplary priest muddle through these changes with his usual open heart, and it was interesting to see the highly sophisticated reader, homilist and teacher struggle through the stiff and unwieldy and language of "corrected" sections of the mass. Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal
Far too many retailers try to just ‘muddle along’, unclear about whom they are there to serve.
We have muddled through, not by great generalship, but by the courage of common men.
Firstly, she sorted out a problem I referred to her about muddles with my mum's pension credit.
It would not be fair to the teacher, it would not be fair to classmates, and it would not be fair to ourselves ... to arrive on June 27th bare-handed and brouillonne (or muddleheaded) Brouillon - French Word-A-Day
Behind stone walls dripping with clematis, a crabapple's toss away from what he called a "muddle" of windblown daisies, beneath the dappled shade of a weeping beech tree, a ruddy-cheeked Englishman, dressed in a gently rumpled olive suit, sat with a sketch pad spread across his lap. The Seattle Times
For this you will need rum, sugar, fresh mint, lime, soda water and a muddler.
This now means that I've seen all extant camelid species (all in captivity, of course), though note that the species-level taxonomy of South American camelids is a little muddled (Kadwell et al. 2001). Archive 2006-05-01
The fact that this situation has reached the point that it has is a poor reflection on the muddle-headed bureaucrats who run the game.
We are getting ourselves into a muddle about religion and politics. Times, Sunday Times
But he also introduces a muddle and an unclarity of his own. The Times Literary Supplement
His muddled evidence casts doubt on his reliability as a witness.
This is a moot point after the muddle of this winter. Times, Sunday Times
In sharp contrast to the autobiography, it tends to be prolix and muddled with excessive detail, and it often reads like a jumbled mix of fantastic stories.
Muddle and mayhem Security at the Shorts company's guided-missile plant in Belfast was exposed again.
The muddled and inconsequent surface of things now and then parts to yield us a gift. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Strictly often muddled along on less than ten million. The Sun
I like you very well, though you are slow and a muddler; but I want you to understand, once and for all, that I did not come to the Solomons to get married. Chapter 20
It is as if the novel's intellectual and ideological muddle is merely a superficial layer of flotsam bobbing on a boiling sea of emotion.
Certainly anyone with a brain the size of a desicated pea would be able to understand that this Latina Woman has demonstrated beyond any doubt that she would be a far better judge than any of the seven Republican senators who have repetedly demonstrated mindless bias, intolerance, and simple, muddleheaded stupidity this past week. Leahy wants committee confirmation vote next week
Normal speech is a muddle, a mix of sentence fragments and hesitations, repetitions and interruptions.
It's all right, you confounded muddlehead!" cried the Crow, losing patience with his perverse and stupid companion. For the term of his natural life
Off to work every morning, clean shaven, youthful necks in knotted ties, days spent in unknown labors, home again at suppertime to take a critical glance at the evening meal and to shake out the newspaper, hold it up between themselves and the muddle of the kitchen, the ailments and emotions, the babies. A Quiet Genius
The letter of recommendation could have got lost in the muddle and fog of war. The Sun
His understanding of phylogenies and nested hierarchies is completely muddled. A Disclaimer for Behe?
The policy muddle is mirrored by the tactical failures. Nick Mills: Obama's Wars
Although a problem in computer ethics may seem clear initially, a little reflection reveals a conceptual muddle.
Could you just repeat those figures - I've got a bit muddled up .
World class bar staff mix and muddle a variety of concoctions, from herb-infused cosmopolitans to fresh fruit Martinis.
Intellectually this was a muddle, from ‘diffusionism’ to ‘cultural adaptation to environments’ to ‘post-processual’ symbolic interpretations.
In a mixing glass, moderately muddle syrup, bitters, mint, orange and lime together.

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