How to Use bewilder in a Sentence

bewilder

verb
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  • The parent flies off as the chicks look around bewildered.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The more than a decade and a half that’s passed since a men’s player won a grand slam event bewilders.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Some may bewilder you, like the bag of fluffy bonito flakes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
  • But at the moment the Rapids striker and his teammates are bewildered by what ails the team.
    — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 6 May 2017
  • The behavior of the driver of the car that killed her husband bewilders her.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
  • This call to arms was retweeted thousands of times in those bewildering first hours of the Age of Trump.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Trump was also bewildered as to the reason for the bloodshed.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 2 May 2017
  • The Wizards seemed bizarrely bewildered from the opening tip, never matched the Celtics' effort and were never in the game.
    — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 13 May 2017
  • By his senior year, Siler was bewildered at the plays his third baseman could make.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
  • The Queen, with the audience, learns of Blunt's past as a Soviet spy—and she, like us, is bewildered.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Given this state of affairs, we are bewildered by the decision to end the NCFS.
    — Suzanne Bell, Scientific American Blog Network, 8 May 2017
  • Given this state of affairs, we are bewildered by the decision to end the NCFS.
    — Sunita Sah, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Some of the children were as young as 5 or 6, looking bewildered, crying in fear.
    — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 8 June 2018
  • Instead the giant puppy was bewildered in the Great Plains.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The guide starts moving, and LaPierre, bewildered, follows him.
    — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The women say the frequent questions about their head scarves bewildered them.
    — Sui-Lee Wee Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Afanasieff sounds almost bewildered by the turn of events.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Kerr said he was still bewildered as to why he was targeted.
    — CBS News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • But Gutierrez agreed with the NFL that the jurors were bewildered and misled during the trial.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Over a third of the island is untouched national park land, and the sheer amount of wildlife is bewildering (there are 267 bird species alone).
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But there are a lot of frenemies and the alliances can be bewildering.
    — Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019
  • It’s been a run filled with bold stabs, wild spending and highs sandwiched by bewildering lows.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The appearance by the New Yorkers that evening at Linfield left a packed crowd bewildered and somewhat amused.
    — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But rather than have one last chance at an upset, the Lions were left baffled and bewildered by what happened.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Dozens of children, some as young as toddlers, were bewildered when they were picked up from school and taken to makeshift shelters.
    — Adeel Hassan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Okay, so that halftime show was bewildering, and not just because most of us were watching it and playing HQ at the same time.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 5 Feb. 2018
  • For some reason, people are bewildered this hot 26-year-old guy could be a virgin.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2018
  • My goal isn’t to hurt them or to bewilder them with a puzzle but to challenge their maps of reality.
    — Anna Silman, The Cut, 13 June 2018
  • Tourists and residents watched the confrontations, bewildered, as police urged them to clear the streets.
    — Austin Ramzy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • Indeed, bewildered by the limitless orb, the brain and the eye strain to reconcile the new perspective.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024

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